Ensuring productivity in tough conditions

Platinum group metals (PGMs) strata present some of the most unforgiving digging conditions imaginable for earthmoving equipment attachments, says earthmoving mining equipment and attachments expert VR Steel GM Dr Justin Martens. “It drains the protective ‘life force’ of the digging tools at an unprecedented rate, often reducing equipment to worn and battered shells in a fraction of the time, compared with other mine environments.”