If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds—workers descending in ...

Over the past decade, Rio Tinto Kennecott — home to the world’s deepest open pit mine — has taken massive strides in reducing ...

Guided from here by controllers, include more than 360 self-driving trucks across all the sites (about 84% of the total fleet is automated); a mostly autonomous long-distance rail network to transport ...

The technology is already applied on haul trucks in mining operations across China, and this collaboration will enable Rio Tinto to demonstrate a complete battery electric truck and charging ...

Truck 409 is Kennecott's newest haul truck. Capable of carrying up to ... of what will be a fleet of 72 trucks at the Bingham Copper Mine. To enter the truck, you can't just open a door and ...

A recent incident at a New South Wales open cut coal mine has highlighted the need to ensure stable ground when designing ...

Kennecott’s fleet of 97 haul trucks and heavy machinery equipment at the mine, concentrator, smelter, refinery and tailings are now all fueled by renewable diesel 1 sourced in the United States.

Rio Tinto will trial battery swap technology for electric haul trucks at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia by partnering with China's State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). The two-year ...

excavating land and operating mining haul trucks during breeding season within and around high-value breeding and foraging habitat for the federally threatened Mexican spotted owl. The mining ...

The fully autonomous 101-ton-payload Cat 777 hauler was developed with Luck Stone, the largest family-owned stone, sand and ...

SSR says that as the owner of the Cripple Creek & Victor Mine in Colorado and the Marigold Mine in Nevada it will produce a ...

A multi-trailer truck crashed and rolled on November 17 while carrying iron ore along the 147-kilometre haul road that links the Kens Bore mine in the West Pilbara to MinRes’ recently completed ...