China sourcing for mining companies and their contractors
Everything a mine buys from China, on one desk: factory price, checked in the factory before you pay and before it ships, documented for your customs and your tender.
Your list is probably split into the five rows below. Ours is the same list, already filled in on the right — with what we actually shipped to mine sites and mining contractors. Clients are not named; the goods are real. The deliveries so far went to Kazakhstan; the desk works in English, Russian, French and Spanish.
| What a mine buys | What we have shipped in this row | Built in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Process lineCrushing · screening · conveying · dewatering · powerDredging & dewatering lines | Conveyor belting — first order, then a repeat order from one of Central Asia’s largest mining and metals groups. | Qingdao, Shandong (belting) · Zhengzhou, Henan (crushers) |
| 2 · Mobile fleetDozers · drill rigs · excavators · loaders · haulageUsed mining fleet, inspected first | 16-ton crawler dozer, drill rigs and excavators delivered to a Kazakhstan mining operation — one excavator built to drawing as an amphibious unit. New drilling rigs for high-altitude pits — how we spec them | Jining (dozers) · Binzhou (amphibious excavators) · Linyi (loaders) |
| 3 · Wear parts & sparesLiners · jaw plates · idlers · pump wet ends · filters · hydraulics · OEM parts by numberParts by part number | 53 Doosan part numbers in one order, Sauer-Danfoss hydraulic motors and valves — sourced number by number for a mining contractor. | OEM and licensed plants across Shandong and Jiangsu — verified per part number |
| 4 · Consumables & PPEFilters · welding · lubricants · electrical · lighting · reagentsFlocculants & water treatment | Filter elements, one tender line worth USD 31,000; 50,000 FFP3 respirators; steel grating; lighting and electrical materials — packed to the tender’s line numbers. | Ten to twenty factories per list, consolidated into one shipment |
| 5 · Site build & powerSteel structures · grating · tanks · camp · gensetsSteel & structures | Galvanised structural steel, steel grating and a 100 kW diesel generator set — tonnage and welds checked before the balance was paid. | Shandong fabrication plants, one to three hours from our office in Jinan |
What we do not do: process design. Capacity, ore test and flow sheet are your engineer’s. We make sure what is built matches what he specified.
Send your listSomeone of ours is in the factory at the two moments that matter
A mine only earns while ore is moving. The expensive mistake is not the price — it is a crusher that does not match the ore test, a liner cast in the wrong grade, or a document that stops the container at the border. So the check happens in China, not at your gate.
| When | Factory or trader? | Witnessed test | Material & certificate | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timestamp 1Before the 70% deposit | We visit unannounced. Does this plant cast, machine and weld in-house, or is it a showroom re-selling someone else’s work? Export licence, production line, past export records — photographed. | For a machine already on the floor: engine plate, hour meter, hydraulics under load. For a line to be built: the test plan is agreed now, in writing. | Manganese grade for liners, cover thickness for belting, mill certificate for structural steel — the certificate is traced back to the mill, not just read. | USD 60per person-day |
| Timestamp 2Before shipment | Same person, same plant: the goods on the floor are the goods on the contract — model, serial, quantity, part numbers against your list. | Factory acceptance test and load run witnessed on video; oversize items measured for breakbulk or flat-rack; spares packed with the main unit. | Certificates, test reports and packing evidence filed in your language and for your border: certificate of origin everywhere; EAC / TR CU for the Eurasian Union; PVoC or SONCAP-type conformity where your country runs one; BV or SGS pre-shipment inspection when your project requires it. | Video firstthen the 30% balance |
Built to drawing, checked on the floor. Track drive assemblies for an amphibious excavator at the plant in Binzhou, Shandong — photographed on the day, before crating.
Timestamp 1 on a used unit. Hour meter and dashboard of a 2018 dump truck, checked in January 2026 for a buyer in Kazakhstan — before any money moved.
Timestamp 2, loading day. A 22-tonne excavator strapped down on the lowbed and photographed on the day it left the yard — the same day-of-loading photo goes into your file.
What an audit day covers·What a pre-shipment inspection costs
What each route costs you — and where our money comes from
| Route | What you pay | What you carry yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Local dealerAlmaty, Lubumbashi, Lima | A Chinese machine at dealer margin, one brand per dealer, parts at dealer margin again. | Least work, most money. Fine for one machine with local service; wrong for a list that spans five brands and twenty factories. |
| Direct from the factoryExport department, if it has one | Factory price — if the plant that quoted you is the plant that builds it. | Verification, consolidation, documents. One brand per plant; nobody merges your list; nobody checks the liner grade for you. |
| Through XILINKYour desk in Jinan | The factory invoice, with nothing added. Inspection days at USD 60 per person-day. 70% deposit, 30% after the video. | Only the list. Our income is the Chinese export VAT rebate on goods we ship — not a kickback from any factory, not a margin hidden in your price. |
The full fee sheet, with a USD 50,000 order worked line by line
Six production towns around our office — one container out
Shandong builds China’s trucks, dozers, loaders, engines and belting; crushers come from Henan next door. We drive to the plant. The list comes back together at a partner’s consolidation warehouse and leaves as one shipment with one set of documents.
- Jinan — HOWO trucks · our office
- Jining — Shantui crawler dozers
- Linyi — SDLG wheel loaders
- Weifang — Weichai diesel engines
- Qingdao — conveyor belting
- Zhengzhou — crushers & screens
Your language · EN · RU · FR · ES
Your border · EAC/TR CU · PVoC · SONCAP
Your tender · origin & packing evidence
Loading video → you release the 30% balance. Sea, rail or overland — whichever lands cheaper.
How oversize machinery ships·Rail to Central Asia, costed
Holding a list right now? Paste it as it is — capacities, part numbers or tender lines are enough to start.
Send your listThe part-number ledger stays open
Chinese OEMs now sit inside Tier 1 mines, but on service and parts support they are, in International Mining’s words, “yet to achieve parity”. The gap lands on the buyer. This is how we close our half of it.
First order
Everything we ship gets a line in the ledger
Re-order
Quote by number, not by description
Doosan, SANY, XCMG, Shantui and HOWO parts by number·When a machine goes down: parts kit, drawings, warranty claims
Send your list
Feasibility list, tender BOQ, a page of part numbers or a set of drawings — paste it or describe it. You get the same list back within two working days with three more columns: where it is built, who checks it, and which lines do not need us.