Wenco to provide fleet management at Salarais Norte site & best wear solution to mining site

Wenco International Mining Systems has announced its successful bid to provide fleet management and supplementary mining technology at Gold Fields Ltd`s forthcoming Salares Norte site in Chile.

Salares Norte is a greenfield gold-silver mine located in the Atacama Desert, roughly 330 km from the city of Diego de Almagro.

Gold Fields has acquired the Wenco fleet management system and BenchManager high-precision machine guidance systems to manage the site`s excavators, drills, and dozers. The site has also ordered high-precision systems for use on its fleet of trucks. Using this Wenco technology, site personnel can gather real-time data that supports rapid decision-making from a single source of truth to increase productivity in a safe and sustainable manner. The system at Salares Norte will run using LTE telecommunications technology.

In addition to fleet management and machine guidance technology, Salares Norte has also purchased Wenco`s ReadyLine asset health management system to reduce unplanned downtime and extend the life of their equipment.

[Salares Norte is an exciting opportunity for us," said Wenco Regional Manager – Latin America, José Eugenio Saravia.

[Gold Fields is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world and we already have a strong relationship with them through the St Ives project in Australia. The recent successes we`ve had throughout Latin America – from Mexico through to Argentina – really shows the expansion of Wenco`s capabilities in the region in just the past few years.

[Now, such a major customer within the region really showcases the level of commitment and service we`re able to offer throughout the region."