A resources multinational will roll out a new range of oversized machinery at one mine. Rio Tinto recently approved running some of the largest excavators available in an undisclosed Australian site...
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Autonomous and automotive manufacturing multinationals will develop new driverless technology. Komatsu and the Toyota Motor Corporation recently revealed they would make autonomous light vehicles for...
A tight labour market is making autonomous conversions a very attractive proposition for employers, an industry expert said. A rising number of mining companies recently opted to automate their heavy...
More resources workers will work with autonomous technology in the not-too-distant future, a report found. Mine employees with experience in driverless, remote-controlled and smart machinery will be...
Limiting the number of human operators reduces workplace incidents, an autonomous leader found. Komatsu Australia wants every mine site to upgrade machinery to driverless and remote technology...
A foreign mining company celebrated the outcome of smart equipment testing at a coal operation. A Chinese state-run subsidiary of Shendong Coal recently declared its intelligent mining technology is...
An autonomous heavy vehicle successfully completed an obstacle course with a roaring finish. One autonomous dump truck recently showed it was nimble enough to overcome a series of challenges and...
Employers will have to fit more innovative motion inhibitors to reduce the risk of workplace accidents. New road-registered heavy vehicles must be able to detect likely forward collisions, warn...
Of all the technology developed over mining’s history for safety, and even more specifically the safety of workers performing tasks around heavy machinery on an everyday basis, one of the most recent...
It wasn’t a great week at Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mine last week when two vehicle incidents occurred on consecutive days. A collision incident and a fire incident. According to available...
A range of factors including poor road design, poor signage, bad lighting and an ‘over-reliance on administrative controls’ all contributed in the death of worker at Ravensworth mine in...
