BHPB Ekati Mine Converts to Light Weight Cap Lamp
BHP Billiton’s Ekati Diamond Mine in northern Canada has converted their cap lamp fleet from lead-acid batteries to light weight lithium-ion batteries. Key factors in choosing the ICCL for this conversion were:
- Lower maintenance costs.
- Safer, by eliminating sulphuric acid battery charging risks.
- Ergonomic benefit form light weight and hip hugging design.
- Compatible with PED Personal Receivers, which they have installed for mine wide emergency warning & general paging.
- ICCL can have an internal RFID Tag Circuit Board included for when tracking is introduced.
- The option to include add the two-way radio module to the ICCL to operate with their leaky feeder system is also available as required.
Ekati have a total of 250 ICCL’s equipped with PED Text Receiver.
More information on the ICCL can be seen at:
http://www.minesite.com.au/iccl_new_cap_lamp