- 1. ASI commercialises agnostic AHS
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- Robotics and autonomous technology group ASI Mining, partially owned by Epiroc, has fully commercialised Mobius, its agnostic autonomous haulage system (AHS). The company’s announcement comes in conjunction ...
- Created on 20 February 2023
- 2. Oz Minerals, Epiroc boost traffic flows at Carrapateena
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- ... in South Australia. The ore at Carrapateena requires haulage from production levels to the crusher level via a short decline with limited passing areas. This challenge is what lent itself to the possibility ...
- Created on 14 February 2023
- 3. Caterpillar, Newmont hit automation milestone at Boddington
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- Newmont’s Boddington operation, which has the distinction of being Western Australia’s largest gold operation, has met a significant target with the gold industry’s first autonomous haulage system: 100 ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 4. Tombola turns on gold processing, eyeing first pour
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- ... in October. Late that month, it commenced initial hauling of ore to the site. An additional fleet of haulage trucks commenced operations as scheduled this month to ramp up and increase ore haulage. Source: ...
- Created on 13 December 2022
- 5. BluVein facilitates electrification of heavy-duty mining
- (Product News)
- ... heavy-haulage vehicle fleets. BluVeinXL leverages a considerable amount of the technology embedded in BluVein1, offering a dynamic charging solution for heavy-duty mining fleets in open-pit mining. Capable ...
- Created on 12 December 2022
- 6. Tombola reports haulage from Comstock, Shamrock
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- ... as well. The first delivery via its cartage contractor was 90,000 tonnes, and its haulage plan includes a seven-day-per-week operation. “Today marks a significant milestone,” Managing Director Byron ...
- Created on 02 November 2022
- 7. FOUR KEY TRENDS TO WATCH
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- ... ehicles, Fortescue Metals Group is pushing ‘green steel’, renewable energy facilities are emerging at remote operations, and a collective of miners is working to decarbonize heavy haulage. All of these ...
- Created on 27 September 2022
- 8. Morning Star online again with recommissioned plant
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- ... across numerous levels, including two new rocker shovels from South Africa. Two electric locomotives to haul ore wagons, one to operate on 4 Level and one on 9 Level will soon be on order to help haulage ...
- Created on 30 August 2022
- 9. Epiroc launches Mobius for Drills, a data hub for mine operations
- (Supplier News)
- ... reports over a secure system on site or remotely. It supports manned operations, teleoperation, semi- and fully autonomous modes and covers applications from drill and blast through autonomous haulage ...
- Created on 30 June 2022
- 10. Liebherr, Fortescue will partner on green haul trucks
- (Supplier News)
- ... approximately 40% of the current haul truck fleet at Fortescue’s operations. Truck haulage consumed approximately 200 million litres of diesel in FY21 and accounted for 26% of Fortescue’s Scope 1 emissions. ...
- Created on 29 June 2022
- 11. Caterpillar autonomously hauls more than 1 billion tonnes with Cat Command
- (Product News)
- ... tons) of material since 2013. To date, trucks equipped with Caterpillar’s autonomous haulage system (AHS) have traveled more than 147 million km (91.3 million mi) with zero loss-time injuries, nearly the ...
- Created on 12 April 2022
- 12. DIGGING DEEPER
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- ... roads lead to damaged tires, damaged trucks or reduced cycle times, the result is lost production. CONTROL UNCERTAINTY As stated mine haulage represents the highest cost component of any ...
- Created on 02 April 2022
- 13. Kalium Lakes becomes first SOP producer in Australia
- (Leading Developments)
- ... commercial production ramp-up. Additionally, the Pilbara region project is still on budget. Kalium most recently awarded contracts for SOP product haulage, though it did not identify the contractor ...
- Created on 27 December 2021
- 14. Kalium Lakes becomes first SOP producer in Australia
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- ... commercial production ramp-up. Additionally, the Pilbara region project is still on budget. Kalium most recently awarded contracts for SOP product haulage, though it did not identify the contractor for ...
- Created on 07 October 2021
- 15. Newmont commissions AHS at Boddington
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- Mining behemoth Newmont has confirmed the start-up of the first autonomous haulage system (AHS) in the gold industry at its Boddington project in Western Australia. The miner invested A$150 million ...
- Created on 07 October 2021
- 16. Komatsu unveils zero-emission equipment alliance
- (Supplier News)
- ... first goal will be to push ahead Komatsu’s power-agnostic truck design for a haulage vehicle that can operate on various sources such as diesel electric, trolly (wired), battery power and hydrogen fuel ...
- Created on 05 October 2021
- 17. MOVING MATERIAL
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- ... haulage. SAFETY FIRST The company’s latest endeavour is a five-year contract on a US$30 billion project to extract nickel ore and transport it to the smelter at the Weda Bay Nickel Project ...
- Created on 30 September 2021
- 18. Rio Tinto, WestTrac autonomous training soaring
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- WesTrac Cat and Rio Tinto have met the six-month mark on autonomous haulage systems training at the WesTrac Technology Training Centre in Collie, Western Australia, and have now seen more than 100 Rio ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 19. Komatsu unveils zero-emission equipment alliance with Rio, BHP, Codelco and Boliden
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- ... first goal will be to push ahead Komatsu’s power-agnostic truck design for a haulage vehicle that can operate on various sources such as diesel electric, trolly (wired), battery power and hydrogen fuel ...
- Created on 03 August 2021
- 20. Fortescue tops 2 billion tonnes autonomously
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- ... Group Fortescue became the first operator worldwide to deploy Caterpillar autonomous haulage technology at a commercial scale in 2012. It began the journey at its Solomon Hub operations and has since ...
- Created on 20 July 2021