Recently Glencore Mount Isa Mines invested in another D6000 sweeper.
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It is used to sweep the huge matrix of roadways and keep the lead and copper dust levels to a minimum.
Glencore are obligated to adhere to strict Environmental Protection Authority rules ensuring employees' air quality and health is a high priority.
Along with minimizing its environmental blue print on Mount Isa by keeping the minesite roads dust free.
The machine works more than nine hours everyday and over a period of eight years sweeps over 1 Million sweeper kilometres.
In 2016 Glencore launched their Air Quality in Mount Isa (AQMI) web portal on the Mount Isa Mines website, and the AQMI smartphone app, which can be downloaded for free, and more recently Glencore purchased an atmospheric temperature profiler, which provides data and insights into atmospheric conditions around Mount Isa.
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