A resources and infrastructure business is pleased with initial heavy vehicle automation results at a mining operation. MACA successfully completed a driverless truck trial at Capricorn...
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An anti-mining protestor confessed to unlawfully entering a resources transport corridor and dangerously attaching herself to a heavy vehicle. Megan Byrnes pleaded guilty to trespassing, contravening...
A demonstrator will spend the next 12 months behind bars for repeatedly interfering with mining operations. Eric Herbert was arrested and sentenced without parole for preventing coal trains from...
A multinational mining company and CAT equipment supplier commemorated their first six months of automation training. Rio Tinto and WesTrac recently celebrated their Automated Haulage Systems (AHS)...
A routine resources delivery across Central Queensland’s Rockhampton region tragically ended in a workplace fatality. A Margate family is grieving the loss of a 49-year-old man whose life was...
One of the world’s largest metal producers plans to make its heavy vehicles driverless by the end of 2021. Newmont Australia revealed its new autonomous haulage system (AHS) could be fully up...
A coal mine employee might be sued for allegedly colliding with anti-mining protestors while he was behind the wheel in Central Queensland’s Galilee Basin. Lawyers are considering potential legal...
A mining company has finished expanding its autonomous heavy vehicle fleet at its iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Fortescue Metals Group recently completed its...
A multinational resources company will have no autonomous trains or any further automated operations, the new chief executive said. Incoming BHP CEO Mike Henry has ruled out investing in driverless...
Two precious metal producers plan to combine their operations to become one of the world’s biggest and safest resources companies. Northern Star Resources and Saracen Mineral Holdings will...
Mining employees will be sent to an equipment dealer’s new autonomous learning facility in Western Australia’s South West region. Mine workers from across the nation will have to make...
A multinational resources company is spending big to retraining its workforce in how to use automated technology. Rio Tinto will invest almost $60 million in providing nationally recognised...
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