The Heaviest Conveyor Belt
World Records
The Heaviest Conveyor Belt
For the highest mine on earth at an elevation of almost 5,000 m (16,000 ft), 17,000 m (57,000 ft) of a PHOENOCORD® St 6300 were supplied to the Collahuasi mine complex in the Chilean Andes.
In order to reduce the number of field splices, the single lengths were shipped on oval reels, having a weight of 58 tons. Such big single belt pieces have never been made before. The reel dimensions are: 5.2 m (204 in) long, 4.3 m (169 in) high and 2.3 m (91 in) wide. Thanks to this special packing method, 415 m (1,360 ft) of this big St 6300 fit on one roll.
