TECHNOLOGY

Breaker breaker

PUTTING remote control onto an excavator at Grange Resources’ Savage River iron ore mine has broadened its use from digging holes and trenches and performing batter scaling to rock breaking if there was a main crusher blockage.

Noel Dyson
RCT has helped boost safety and productivity at Grange Resources' Savage River mine.

RCT has helped boost safety and productivity at Grange Resources' Savage River mine.

The company had Remote Control Technologies customise a line-of-sight package for the mine’s Hitachi EX1200 excavator. It figured with remote control fitted it could safely interchange the excavator with...

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