Glencore deploys drill autonomy at Antapaccay
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Glencore deploys drill autonomy at Antapaccay
May 25, 2023

Marking a milestone for the Glencore group as a whole, the Antapaccay copper mine in Peru in late 2022 began the process of autonomous blasthole drilling deployment where the equipment is monitored remotely from a control room without line of sight. Currently two drill units are being operated autonomously at the site. Glencore states that the key participants in this process are the employees involved, who are[…]

First Quantum improves Kansanshi mine reliability with Accelovant fibre-optic sensors
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First Quantum improves Kansanshi mine reliability with Accelovant fibre-optic sensors
May 18, 2023

Kansanshi Mining, a First Quantum-owned company located in Zambia, is leveraging Accelovant’s fibre-optic sensors to solve its arcing and electronics failure and signaling issues at the major copper mine. Kansanshi operates one of the world’s largest and most productive copper mining and smelting sites. The smelting operations use wet electrostatic precipitators (ESP) to clean sulphur[…]