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Mining companies betting on autonomous technology to make dangerous jobs safer

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Firms are using everything from driverless haul trucks to remote-controlled and robotic drilling machines to remove human labour from hazardous operations

Forget about the canary in the coal mine – experts say the day is coming when there won’t even be a need for a human.

“It was just a huge success for us,” said Shannon Rhynold, Nutrien’s vice-president of potash engineering, technology and capital. “And because you’re opening that new ground, you’re always at risk of what’s in the ground above you, what’s on the walls on the side of you.” At the Boddington gold mine in Western Australia, human drivers have been replaced by a fully autonomous haulage fleet of 36 trucks. In Chile, mining giant BHP

“ can start reversing much, much more quickly than a staffed truck could do. And they can also pass by each other much more closely than you would ever allow with staffed trucks,” Corson said. “So it really enables much faster loading.”

 

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