Mining

Mining operations are highly exposed to lightning due to expansive, open infrastructure. LPI prevents equipment damage, eliminates ignition sources in methane-rich environments, and protects personnel working across remote pits and processing sites.

The risk

Lightning protection solutions for mines

Mining sites combine the worst of every lightning risk category: direct-strike exposure, long cable runs, hazardous atmospheres, and high-value mobile equipment in the open.

Electrical & electronic damage

Overvoltage and surges destroy control systems, cause data loss and burn out components across site.

Fire & methane

Fuel tanks, flammable stores and coal-mine methane, any of which a strike can ignite.

Mobile plant

Haul trucks, dozers and drills, expensive mobile equipment with electrical systems and rubber tyres exposed in the pit.

Personnel safety

Direct and indirect strikes to operators working in open pits, on processing decks and around haul roads.

Electrical & electronic damage

Overvoltage and surges destroy control systems, cause data loss and burn out components across site.

Fire & methane

Fuel tanks, flammable stores and coal-mine methane, any of which a strike can ignite.

Mobile plant

Haul trucks, dozers and drills, expensive mobile equipment with electrical systems and rubber tyres exposed in the pit.

Personnel safety

Direct and indirect strikes to operators working in open pits, on processing decks and around haul roads.

Electrical & electronic damage

Overvoltage and surges destroy control systems, cause data loss and burn out components across site.

Fire & methane

Fuel tanks, flammable stores and coal-mine methane, any of which a strike can ignite.

Mobile plant

Haul trucks, dozers and drills, expensive mobile equipment with electrical systems and rubber tyres exposed in the pit.

Personnel safety

Direct and indirect strikes to operators working in open pits, on processing decks and around haul roads.

The Solution

Implementation across a mining site

Select a marker on the scene to explore the risk at that point and how LPI's comprehensive approach reduced lightning losses across a mining site.

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Air Terminal

Stormaster or Guardian Plus air terminal

HVSC Plus insulated downconductor cable

Earth Electrodes

Our standards & compliance

Engineered to every recognised framework.

Comprehensive Lightning Protection

Direct Strike

Surge Protection

Earthing & Bonding

Direct Strike

Direct Strike

Surge Protection

Earthing & Bonding

Direct Strike

Direct Strike

Surge Protection

Earthing & Bonding

Direct Strike

Selected projects

Our work across mining sites

Protection engineered for the specific demands of open cut, underground and associated processing infrastructure.

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