An engineering team at the University of Pretoria (UP) has pioneered an underground procedure which tests the performance of collision-avoidance systems (CAS) in an effort to improve the safety of...
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The Pike River mine re-entry has progressed beyond the 1000 metre mark in its’ journey up the 2.3 km mine drift in its’ search for answers to the explosion that killed 29 miners. In a...
A co-operative project is using robots to explore workings of flooded mines across Europe. The UNEXMIN project is developing a technology capable of autonomous exploration and mapping of flooded...
Robotics researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 are testing the capability of their robot’s in an abandoned gold mine in the US as part of a challenge run by the acclaimed US Defense Advanced Research...
As the 2018 year draws to a close there is a range of uncertainty in global mining markets that have made a few investors a little nervous. There are, however, some constants emerging across the...
Rio Tinto has successfully deployed AutoHaul™, establishing the world’s largest robot and first automated heavy-haul, long distance rail network and has advised that it does not expect any driver...
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW It’s definitely a question on the lips of many across the industry. Its’ likely that an autonomous machine will change the way we conduct specific mining operations...
