Exhibitor Press Releases

Underground, every machine is judged twice: once for the work it does, and once for what the mine must do to live with it. A diesel machine pays the second bill in air — its exhaust and heat must be diluted and carried away by the ventilation system, and diesel particulate matter is a recognised occupational health concern in underground workings worldwide.

A battery machine hands that bill back. No exhaust in the heading. No combustion heat added to air the mine must move and, in deep workings, cool. Less noise beside the operator. This is why battery locomotives have hauled ore and men through underground headings for over a century — they are the longest-serving electric vehicles on earth — and why battery haulage remains the natural choice wherever diesel is unwelcome.

Microtex has supplied batteries to underground locomotive fleets for over fifteen years — Indian gold and coal mining, and mines across Africa — and builds the LIMITLESS range of vented lead-acid increased-safety traction battery packs for locomotives, scoops, LHDs, personnel carriers and utility vehicles. Each pack is engineered for the duty: deep daily cycling on tubular plates, acid containment for floors that are never level, and a matched mining-duty charger whose charge finishes clean in a ventilation-budgeted bay.

The ventilation argument, the safety case and the engineering are open for debate in person at Stand E17G, Electra Mining Africa 2026 — or at microtex.com/mining.