Sandvik Intellectual Property Ab

Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools Ab

Krystof Turba

Malin Martensson

Ioannis Arvanitidis

Mirjam Lilja

Malin Mårtensson

Jose Maria Tarrago Cifre

Ida Borgh

José Maria TarragÓ Cifre

Joannis Arvanitidis

Malin MÅRTENSSON

A rock drill insert made of cemented carbide includes hard constituents of tungsten carbide (WC) in a binder phase of Ni—Cr, or Ni—Co—Cr, and a balance of WC and unavoidable impurities. The cemented carbide has a 3.5-18 wt % binder phase. The binder phase has >0 wt % Ni. The mass ratio Cr/(Ni+Co) is 0.02-0.19. A difference between the hardness at 0.3 mm depth at some point of the surface of the rock drill insert and the minimum hardness of the bulk of the rock drill insert is at least 30 HV3.

Rock drill insert

A rock drill insert made of cemented carbide having hard constituents of tungsten carbide (WC) in a binder phase including Co, wherein the cemented carbide includes 4-18 mass % Co and a balance of WC and unavoidable impurities. The cemented carbide also includes Cr in such an amount that the mass ratio Cr/Co is within the range of 0.04-0.19, and the difference between the hardness at a 0.3 mm depth at any point of the surface of the rock drill insert and the hardness of the bulk of the rock drill insert is at least 40 HV3.

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Krystof Turba