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Fortescue boosts autonomous fleet

Fortescue Metals Group has converted about 100 haul trucks at its Chichester Hub Christmas Creek mine with autonomous haulage technology and has become the first iron ore operation in the world to have a fully autonomous fleet.

GroundProbe has released its first laser-based monitoring solution to give early warning of impending collapses of open pit mine walls, dams, mine dumps and vegetated slopes, which can begin months or years before a collapse occurs.

Volvo rigid haulers released

Volvo Construction Equipment recently used its Motherwell facility in Scotland as the stage to unveil a new range of rigid haulers.

Innovation with IoT and AI

Glyn Jones, group CEO at Trolex Group, looks at how connected and smart technologies are impacting the mining industry.

A Bauer cutter, usually applied to specialist foundations for infrastructure, will soon be used as part of Rio Tinto's diamond exploration project in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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