Prime choice for mine operators and customers in large-scale opencast mining whose goal, for example, is to achieve an annual mining capacity in soft rock of up to 12 million tons with a single machine.

The primary conveyor transports the material to the discharge conveyor, which is available in two different lengths to ensure optimum loading of different truck sizes in opencast mining.

The 16-m long discharge conveyor (optional) permits powerful loading of all heavy-duty trucks in the 240-t class.

4200 SM in the Cloudbreak Mine in Western Australia: the most powerful Wirtgen surface miner is operating in iron ore, achieving daily production rates of 12,000  tonnes per shift.