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"Chinese mining giant Zijin Mining Group has been steadily building out fleets
of battery electric trucks at several of its mines, including a batch of
electric haul trucks that the company built itself – because it couldn’t find
another supplier.
Zijin Mining Group is a publicly traded partly state-owned mining conglomerate
and one of the largest producers of gold, copper, and zinc in China.
It established its own production and assembly line for large batter electric
mine trucks, starting with the LK220E dump truck, which rolled off the
production line in December 2025. It now has early 300 of these trucks, some
weighing up to 140 tonnes and featuring swappable 776 kWh batteries.
The company says its LK220E mine truck addresses a number of key challenges in
mine haulage operations, including high fuel consumption and its attendant
emissions, frequent malfunctions, and expensive maintenance.
The company delivered the first batch of LK220E haul trucks in May to the
Julong Copper Mine, which is located at an altitude of 5,300 meters, is
extremely cold and on steep terrain.
Despite the challenges the LK220E maintained over 90 per cent operational
uptime, and even when compared to similar models, the trucks reduced energy
consumption by more than 17 per cent.
The company is also in the process of developing other battery electric mine
trucks, including the LK350E, a larger-tonnage version of the LK220E, and the
LK110EI autonomous electric truck."
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