POWERING UNDERGROUND MINE
POWERING THE WORLD’S FIRST FULLY-AUTOMATED
UNDERGR OUND MINE B y K a t e D o u g h e r t y, E n e r g y a n d M i n e s When the sublevel cave at Resolute Mining’s Syama Gold Mine becomes the world’s first fully-autonomous underground mine in 2019, it will leverage automated drilling, automated loading, and automated haulage. In what will be an industry first, ore from this south Mali mine will originate underground and arrive at a single pad on the surface without being manually handled.
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