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FUTURE ? * Australia - Driverless trucks
* Rio to trial automated mining
Sydney,Australia -The Australian, by Andrew Trounson -January 19, 2008: -- The mining operation of the future is likely to be an eerie place, combining driverless trucks, drills and haulage trains with plant controllers monitoring operations by remote from central control stations 1000km away in a major city... Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto yesterday said it planned this year to launch a groundbreaking trial of automated mining methods at its isolated West Angelas iron ore mine deep in the deserts of Western Australia's Pilbara. And if it all goes well, Rio could start developing a largely automated iron ore mine nearby in 2010... Rio has formed an alliance with Japanese equipment maker Komatsu to develop a system to automate Rio's Pilbara iron ore mines, with a trial due to start in October. It will involve five driverless 320-tonne dump trucks and one automated drill rig. And Rio is hoping to have a viable system in place for wider deployment within the next three to five years... Rio and Komatsu are looking to harness the huge advances in robotics, global positioning, communication bandwidths and computer speed to increasingly automate mining operations...
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