China ships 31 electric mining trucks to Africa for Zambian copper mine

China sent a shortly of 31 pure electric mining trucks to Africa on Sunday, for utilize in a copper mining undertaking in Zambia. 

The trucks are supplied by Breton Technology, a Chinese excessive-tech company specialising in inexperienced construction equipment. 

They’ll be customary by an African department of China’s convey-owned company 15th Metallurgical Construction Group. 

“The overseas cooperation [is] the first large-scale deployment of electric mining trucks at one go to a mining project in Africa. It will help further upgrade the local mining equipment”, acknowledged Li Wenjie, the chairman of China 15th Metallurgical Construction Group’s construction alternate company in Africa.

Breton Technology is guilty for offering a zero-carbon mining robot diagram, including electric vehicles, autonomous riding, and trim energy applied sciences. 

“We believe that in the near future, unmanned mining fleets will be seen operating in Africa”, acknowledged Teng Fei, head of scheme and in one other nation alternate at Breton Technology.

The mining trucks are anticipated to reach Durban in South Africa after a 20 to 25 days dash.

China has pledged $5 billion to Zambia’s mining alternate by 2031, despite controversies surrounding the environmental and social affect of Chinese-owned mines. 

In February, a spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine scandalous a serious Zambian river.

The failure of a dam on the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia mining facility allowed 50 million litres of acidic raze to be released into a trip main to the Kafue River.

Signs of air pollution had been detected no longer lower than 100 kilometres downstream from the skill.

Further sources • CCTV