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Mining Robots Rio Tinto Doubles Down On Autonomous Drilling
Aug 29 2018 bhp trialled automated drilling technology on pit viper 271 rigs supplied by atlas copco at the yandi mine in pilbara the pv 271 is capable of working for 115 hours of a 12hour shift with just one person required to oversee three drills compared with around eight and a half hours with previous human operators
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Mining Navipedia
In open pit mining accurate gnss is useful for tasks such as machine guidance grading dozing drilling collision avoidance surveying and fleet management gnss augmentation techniques such as dgnss or rtk increase the accuracy achieved to the level required for some of the mining activities and are normally used in gnss mining systems
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Machine Guided Mine Drilling
Machine guided mine drilling with the move from underground to open pit mining south africas landau colliery sought to increase safety accuracy and productivity with the help of machine guidance drilling systems published january 2015 author trimble
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