Rio Tinto built its most technologically advanced mine in western Australia. The Gudai-Darri mine employs 600 workers on site, also >70 in a control center in Perth, but is facing labor shortages.
Nearly two dozen driverless trucks haul iron ore on preplanned courses, tracked by autonomous water carts used to control dust. Robots are used to transfer samples in the site’s laboratory, while ore departs on a driverless train for export to customers in Asia. The mine shipped its first ore in June, and will ramp up to full capacity next year.
Technology will change as many as four in every five mining jobs by 2030, per a 2019 estimate by EY. Truck drivers and drill operators are being supplanted by data scientists/systems engineers. MOSIMTEC can help. We specialize in deploying digital twin technology for mining companies and have done dozens of mining projects, including all aspects of the value chain (mining, processing, supply chain and more) across many mine types, geographies and minerals/products over 15 years. Our industrial engineers and data scientists specialize in advanced simulation, digital twin and analytics tools to help mining companies improve performance. How can MOSIMTEC help you future-proof your mining operation?
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