AN AUTONOMOUS drill record has been set in Western Australia’s Pilbara with BHP’s WA Iron Ore’s 26 Epiroc Pit Viper 271 drills operating autonomously for more than 479,607 hours and drilling more than 25 million metres.
BHP's autonomous Pit Vipers have drilled more than 25 million metres.
That is the equivalent of drilling the distance from Perth to Newman nearly 21 times. Those 26 rigs operate across five sites and are all controlled from BHP's Integrated Remote Operations Centre in...
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