Late last year Ampcontrol manufactured and delivered provided a fully fitted and completed LV switchroom for a key customer at one of their open-pit coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
Pumps are critical to the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of a mine site. They are used to manage groundwater ingress and process water and slurry generated during mining activities.
In particular, booster pumps play a key role in transferring fluids over long distances and significant elevation changes, ensuring consistent flow rates from pit dewatering systems, underground workings, and processing plants to designated storage or treatment facilities such as tailings storage.
Switchrooms are a critical component in the safe and reliable operation of mining booster pump systems. They house the motor control centres (MCCs), variable speed drives (VSDs), protection relays, and control systems required to start, stop, and regulate booster pump performance. By providing a controlled environment for this equipment, switchrooms ensure consistent pump operation under demanding mining conditions.
Ampcontrol provided:
- A site specific prefabricated modular switchroom, reducing on site labor and commissioning time.
- Site installation, LV terminations, protection configuration and testing
- Ongoing support and field service
The role of mine site booster pumps and the electrical infrastructure that supports it, is essential for managing hazardous mining by-products and meeting stringent environmental and regulatory requirements. Equipment failure is costly and has major impacts on productivity, Ampcontrol's solution provides a robust, mine‑ready switchroom configuration built for reliability, safety and long‑term performance.
