Niagara Testing, a company with over 20 employees, will assemble inspection teams of 2-5 personnel, to meet your repair/correction assessment needs and well as perform routine preventive maintenance during your site shut-down periods. We are experienced in mining work. Personnel are MSHA 5000-23 certified in UNDERGROUND and SURFACE MINING, METAL AND NON-METAL, and will travel anywhere in North America. Our work consists of ultrasonic, magnetic particle, and dye penetrant inspection for ball mill gear seats, custom mining equipment and more.
We are more than happy to share example reports with you and provide references for any type of work shown within this website. We regularly work in mining repair shops and mines in the southwest USA and Alaska.
Key service supported at mine sites and large repair shops included: standard and phased array ultrasonic inspection, magnetic particle inspection (both dry and wet florescent methods), dye penetrant, certified weld inspection, visual inspection, thermography, and metallurgical analyses sample collection with laboratory evaluation (chemical composition, hardness, mechanical properties, and grain analysis).
BALL MILL GEAR & SAG MILL GEAR INSPECTION
- Ultrasonic and magnetic particle inspection for subsurface and surface cracks
- 12′-40′ diameter, 12″-28″ gear teeth width, 300+ teeth
- Detailed partial report shown on right
- Shell crack inspection and evaluation, flange bolts, mounting bolts, main motor shaft, pinion gear
LARGE EQUIPMENT AND DRILL MAST INSPECTION
- Ultrasonic testing, certified weld inspection, and magnetic particle inspection of field repair welds to ensure weld integrity
- Wide array of shovels, loaders, and haul trucks, Hitachi excavators, Joy Global excavators, Caterpillar loaders, Letourneau loaders, Liebherr haul trucks
- Full drill mast weld inspection
HOIST, WINCH AND UNDERGROUND SHAFT EQUIPMENT
- Hoists and winches
- Buckets
- Personnel Carriers
- Structures
- Sheaves and Pins
SPECIALIZED MINING EQUIPMENT
- Ultrasonic testing, dye penetrant inspection, and magnetic particle inspection
- Special purpose equipment, lifting beams, dippers, turbine blade welds
- Crusher mainframes, crusher heads and bowls, main shafts, rotor shafts for all motors, shovel buckets
MILL HEAD TRUNNION THICKNESS
- Ultrasonic trunnion thickness testing
- Detailed grid pattern thickness mapping
- Example of mapping data and statistics on right
FLOTATION TANK THICKNESS
- Ultrasonic determination of wall thickness
- Detailed grid pattern thickness mapping
- Can be performed while tanks are filled