en.Wedoany.com Reported - Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. (601899.SH/02899.HK), through its subsidiary Xinjiang Zijin Zinc Industry Co., Ltd., has established one of the world's largest pure electric mining truck fleets for a single open-pit mine at the Uragen lead-zinc mine in Wuqia County, Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As of June 2026, over 290 electric mining trucks have been put into operation at the mine, handling more than 80% of the mine's earth and rock transportation tasks.

Xinjiang Zijin Zinc Industry is the operator of one of China's leading large-scale single lead-zinc mines. The mine has built an integrated source-grid-load-storage zero-carbon smart transportation system, relying on self-built wind power, photovoltaic, and supporting energy storage projects to achieve green power self-sufficiency, fully meeting the electricity demand of the electric mining trucks. The mine has also established Xinjiang's first fully automatic side-swapping station for mining trucks, constructed by Fujian Longking Co., Ltd., a company in which Zijin holds a stake. This station enables ultra-fast battery swapping in 4 minutes, capable of completing over 180 battery swaps per day for 90-tonne mining trucks. The equipment can operate stably year-round under extreme climate conditions ranging from minus 40 degrees Celsius to plus 40 degrees Celsius. The supporting vehicle networking intelligent control platform has reduced speeding and violation incidents by 75%. A power battery full-status monitoring system provides 24-hour real-time monitoring of battery remaining capacity, operating temperature, and safety status.

This electric mining truck fleet includes models from multiple mainstream brands such as Boretron and Lingong Heavy Machinery. Among them, the Lingong Heavy Machinery RTE136 90-tonne electric mining truck adopts a side-swapping design, modified from the mature RTH fuel mining truck chassis, supporting both fast charging and battery swapping modes. It is equipped with a 3.5C high-rate fast-charging power battery with a capacity range of 872 to 1056 kWh. In its 2025 Sustainability Report, Zijin Mining disclosed that in 2025, the company comprehensively advanced the "oil-to-electricity" conversion at its mines, with 62.5% of its production mine subsidiaries gradually introducing pure electric mining dump trucks and other new energy equipment. As of the end of 2025, the group had cumulatively deployed 1,719 units of various new energy engineering vehicles.

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