What equipment is used in dimension stone mining?

Dimension stone mining involves the use of stone cutting machines, hydraulic rock drilling rigs and other equipment. This includes drilling granite and extracting marble, among other forms of rock excavation.

What is dimension stone mining?

Dimension stone mining refers to the process of extracting and cutting dimension stone such as granite and marble using various equipment like hydraulic rock drilling rigs, stone cutting machines, and other tools. Epiroc offers a wide variety of solutions for the dimension stone industry.

Which materials can Epiroc's drilling rigs handle?

Epiroc offers drilling rigs for granite, limestone, marble and sandstone. Over the last 20 years, global production of dimension stone has grown rapidly, especially for building projects where architects are making increasing use of the wide variety of colors, textures and finishes that natural stone can offer.

What size holes are used for DSI drilling?

Hole diameters used for DSI drilling are typically less than 45 mm, given that the purpose of the holes is to provide a line of weakness within the rock mass for splitting, rather than to hold explosives, as in conventional quarrying.

What is dimension stone?

Dimension stone is the name given to natural rock that has been quarried and shaped into certain dimensions. Dimension stone is separated by precise and gentle techniques such as sawing and precise drilling. Dimension stone is quarried by cutting, or separating by some other means, large blocks of stone from the natural rock mass.

How deep can a drill rig be drilled?

Single-pass hole drilling of up to 4 m is possible, while its maximum hole depth reach is again 9 m. The extending boom allows the drilling of parallel rows of holes along a bench from a single set-up, with the rig having a maximum surface coverage of nearly 260 m2 without being moved.