“What about swarms of giant driverless mining trucks, hauling off 300 tons of ore across a busy working mine? Semi-robotic drilling rigs chewing away deep underground? That’s not the future. It’s today in a handful of big working mines. And unlike Amazon’s PR-based stunts, these developments are starting to have a big (though unappreciated) impact on mining company bottom lines. As Mining Weekly noted last week, 30% of South Africa’s platinum mining now comes from highly automated, mechanized operations. In the iron-ore sector, Rio Tinto is now the world’s largest owner of ‘autonomous haulage system trucks,’ which it now uses at two of its mines in Australia.”
http://thesovereigninvestor.com/gold/the-gold-revolution/
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