MacLean Engineering

MacLean specializes in the design, manufacturing and introduction of underground mining mobile equipment solutions (ground support, secondary reduction/ore flow, utility vehicles). Our value proposition blends hard rock mining experience, multi-discipline engineering capabilities, unit-of-one manufacturing expertise, and worldwide customer service and support. We build for life underground.





MacLean EV Series: Full-Fleet Electrification
MacLean Engineering

FLEET ELECTRIFICATION THAT CONNECTS THE MINING CYCLE TO THE BATTERY CYCLE: The MacLean approach to battery propulsion is built on giving our customers access to best-in-class ... Read more


MacLean Mobile Equipment Innovation Update
MacLean Engineering

MacLean Hard Rock Equipment R&D Report: The last 12 months at MacLean have seen the culmination of a two-year phase of intense product development activity, including fleet e ... Read more


Jackleg safety and mechanization
MacLean Engineering

483 MSHA reportable injuries involving jacklegs occurred at US mines between 2003 and 2012, according to a recent study published by NIOSH (Clark et al., 2016). And these are ... Read more


Small Section Bolter Dry Drilling: Self-contained ...
MacLean Engineering

Dry drilling on MacLean Small Section Bolter - In 2015, MacLean worked with Petra Diamonds’ Finsch mine in South Africa, the second largest diamond mine in the RSA, to devel ... Read more


Battery power for underground mining equipment - t ...
MacLean Engineering

The successful introduction of battery power to hard rock mining isn’t going to be about the correct choice of battery chemistry alone, it will be about engineering a batter ... Read more


Reducing Whole Body Vibrations for miners
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Making front suspension the standard, not the option: An increasing body of research is linking chronic Whole Body Vibration exposure to musculosketal disorders such as lower ... Read more


Compressing the Mining Cycle
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A few extra metres per day of advance can represent significant increases in the value of an ore body over a mine’s life, so rapid development isn’t just a buzzword, it’ ... Read more


Getting Innovation Right: Investing in faster, che ...
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An ideas instead of mining boom has a nice ring to it as a slogan, but what if mining booms and ideas booms are one in the same? http://www.macleanengineering.com/blog/getting ... Read more


Secondary Breaking: MacLean Ore Flow Product Line
MacLean Engineering

Oversized hang-ups present significant challenges to ore flow for mine operators. MacLean’s comprehensive suite of ore flow solutions starts with Water Cannons as a first li ... Read more