TECHNOLOGY

The waterboys

ONE area often overlooked in the autonomous mining push is the automation of ancillary equipment such as water trucks and graders. At least on the water truck side, Rio Tinto believes that oversight has been addressed.

One of Rio Tinto's autonomous water trucks.

One of Rio Tinto's autonomous water trucks.

The major miner is deploying three fully autonomous water trucks at its Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara. Those trucks, developed through a collaboration between Rio Tinto and...

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