Mining Dredges
Mud Cat dredges are used by the world’s leading mining companies for cleaning tailings ponds and wash plant ponds. These versatile machines, often referred to as mine tailings dredges, can be used in a variety of mining applications, including, but not limited to:
- Sand mining
- Settling ponds
- Metal tailings ponds
- Coal tailings ponds
- Wash plant ponds
- Mine impoundment clean-up pre and post disaster work
Mud Cat dredges are available for various depths and configurations for mining applications. Different coatings, automation, and remote control systems are available.
Mud Cat Dredges used in Mining Applications
A Mud Cat custom D-Series cleans out a mine tailings pond for Ambatovy in Madagascar.
A Mud Cat self-propelled D-Series dredge cleans out a mine tailings pond.
A Mud Cat 225D cleans out a bauxite tailings pond in West Africa.
A Mud Cat 225D cleans out a mine tailings pond in Africa.
A Mud Cat 225D cleans out a wash plant pond at a sand and gravel mining operation in the U.S.
A Mud Cat diesel dredge operating at a sand mine in the U.S.
A Mud Cat diesel dredge mines sand from an operation on the East Coast, U.S.
A Mud Cat diesel dredge cleaning out a bauxite tailings pond. Note the high face of the the tailings. The Mud Cat’s auger cutterhead can undercut the material and let it slough off into the pond.
A Mud Cat diesel-powered remote-controlled dredge cleans out a copper concentrate pond in Chile.
A Mud Cat 225D cleans out a wash plant pond for Aztec Mining in the Eastern U.S.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out a mine tailings pond in Lesotho.
A Mud Cat diesel remote controlled dredge cleans out a mine tailings pond in Australia.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out a mine tailings pond for Tronox in Australia.
A Mud Cat 40E 30ft. deep digging dredge cleans out a lined wash plant pond at Alpine Silica in Texas.
One of Nystar Mining’s Mud Cat 50E electric remote-control dredges cleans out a copper mine tailings waste pond in British Colombia. The dredge is using Mud Cat’s Lateral Sense technology which utilizes a lateral rail system on the North and South sides of the pond to move the dredge automatically to the next cut.
A Mud Cat E-Series cleans out a mine tailings pond in Canada.
A Mud Cat 50E cleans out a mine tailings pond in Kazakhstan for Kaz Minerals.
Kemare Resources uses their Mud Cat 225D to maintain a tailings pond at their mine in Mozambique.
A Mud Cat 50E cleans a drainage pond at a mine.
C&M Dredging utilizes their Mud Cat D-Series to pump wash plant fines into geotextile tubes.
A Mud Cat 225D cleans out a lithium process pond in South America. Note the clean cut even channel produced by the auger cutterhead.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out a mine sump in Canada.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out mine run-off pond at a coal mine in West Virginia.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out a copper concentrate pond in Chile.
A Mud Cat 40E cleans out a tailings pond in Australia.
Vulcan Material uses their Mud Cat 115D to clean out a wash plant settling pond at a mine in the U.S.
News
Ellicott Dredge Enterprises Delivers and Commissions Custom Mud Cat® 30EC Electric Potash Dredging System for PADCOM
The custom electric Mud Cat 30E was developed by the EDE Engineering Team in conjunction with the customer to deliver the required potash flow and density.
Mud Cat MC 40E Electric Dredge Commissioned in DRC
An Ellicott Dredge Enterprises LLC Mud Cat MC 40E remote controlled electric dredge was commissioned last week by Senior Field Service Technician, Rob Carufel, at a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
SHOULD I ADD A RADIO REMOTE CONTROL TO MY D-SERIES DIESEL MUD CAT?
The MC 225D is a one-truck transportable self-propelled dredge that has completed more industrial, agricultural, mining, and stormwater pond projects around the world than any other diesel dredging system. This dredge was purchased by a repeat customer after the first dredge was a complete success.
New Mud Cat Dredger on its Way to West Africa
The dredge was purchased by a repeat customer after the first dredge was a complete success.
Hedger Aggregate Chooses Mud Cat for Sand Wash Plant Pond Maintenance
JONESBORO, AR USA – Ellicott Dredge Enterprises (EDE) is pleased to announce the sale of a Mud Cat® Model MC 115D to Hedger
Mini-Dredge Slurps Up Tons of Waste Coal from Slurry Settling Ponds
There’s plenty of rich coal in slurry ponds. And all you need to get it out is to get yourself one of these mini-dredges.
Turning Waste into Dollars – Georgia Producer Reclaims Fines for Aglime Markets
A Georgia aggregate producer has found an added source of income and solved a production problem by selling reclaimed
Portable Dredge Used to Mine Silica Sand
Dresser Minerals, a division of Dresser Industries, Inc., has been using a Mud Cat from Mud Cat International’s Mud Cat
Mud Cat Dredges Used Around-the-Clock in Coal Fines Clean-Up Operation in Kentucky
A.T. Massey Coal Co. subsidiary Martin County Coal Corp., faces citations from the Kentucky Natural Resources Protection
Turn an Environmental Problem into Profit: Dredge Recovers Coal Fines from Settling Ponds
The Mud Cat auger dredge, a quality heavy-duty mini-dredge with a huge appetite for coal fines, is performing beyond expectations
Mud Cat Custom Dredge for SQM, Chile
Sociedad Quimica Minera de Chile SA (SQM) purchased a customized auger dredge to extract potassium nitrate from the Mud Cat
Mud Cat Dredge Used in AMAX Molybdenum Mine
At the Henderson Mine water filtration system in Colorado, the Mud Cat is being used to clean a secondary holding pond that conatin
