Italy's infrastructure tunneling—the Brenner Base Tunnel from the Austrian border through the Dolomites, the Genoa third harbor access tunnel through Ligurian flysch, and hard-rock quarrying in Carrara and Sardinia—puts the RD22U's hydrau...
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Indonesia's nickel and gold operations—Amman Mineral's Batu Hijau copper-gold mine in Sumbawa and Vale's Sorowako nickel operations in Sulawesi—run RD22U drifters in tropical conditions where the seal house sits at the most vulnerable con...
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KGHM's copper operations in Lubin and Sieroszowice run some of Europe's highest-utilization underground drill fleets. The RD22U drifters on their development headings accumulate percussion hours at a rate that makes the piston guide's clearance maint...
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Norilsk Nickel's sulfide ore operations in Siberia and the Polyus gold operations at Natalka in Magadan Oblast are among the world's most logistically isolated mine sites. The RD22U percussion cylinder at these locations isn't replaced on a preventiv...
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The RD22U's heavier piston—more mass, longer stroke, higher impact energy than the RD18U class—changes the fatigue arithmetic in Finnish hard-rock operations. At Agnico Eagle's Kittilä gold mine in Lapland, the gold-bearing schist tr...
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German tunnel engineers building the Brenner Base Tunnel through the Alps and the Stuttgart 21 rail project underground have a phrase for what happens when overhaul kit components from different suppliers get mixed at service: 'Dimensionsroulette'&md...
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The Atlas Copco RD22U steps up from the RD18U in percussion energy class—its heavier piston delivers more joules per blow for the demanding hard-rock formations of northern Sweden's mining belt. That higher energy per blow changes the operating...
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A full seal kit for the Atlas Copco RD18U is the only maintenance purchase that directly affects every performance parameter of the percussion circuit simultaneously. The percussion seal determines effective pressure differential per blow. The flushi...
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Finland's deep-level mining operations at Outokumpu's old copper belt and the newer gold discoveries in Lapland operate RD18U drifters in formations that combine high UCS with high quartz content—the most abrasive combination a guide piston enc...
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Canada's potash mines in Saskatchewan—Nutrien's Vanscoy and Cory operations, Mosaic's Esterhazy—present a different mechanical environment for the RD18U's roller bearing than the hard-rock applications the drifter was primarily designed a...
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Philippine nickel laterite mining—on Palawan, in Surigao del Norte, and on Mindanao—deploys Atlas Copco RD18U drifters in both underground exploration drilling and surface crawler drill configurations. The driver (transmission sleeve) in ...
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Iran's copper mining operations—Sarcheshmeh in Kerman Province, one of the world's largest porphyry copper deposits, and Sungun in East Azerbaijan—run Atlas Copco RD18U drifters on development and production drilling in hard granodiorite ...
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