Scania and Rio Tinto are growing extra agile autonomous haul vans at a mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara area to pursue potential environmental and productiveness advantages.
A Scania autonomous truck is loaded at Rio Tinto’s Channar iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara area.
The 2 corporations have established a long-term analysis and growth collaboration settlement for the continual development of this autonomous expertise, below which Rio Tinto’s Channar mine has change into the primary lively companion website for Scania’s autonomous mining resolution. The partnership additionally consists of choices for the long run transition to electric-powered autos.
Rio Tinto and Scania launched new trials on Scania’s 40-tonne-payload autonomous mining vans in April 2022 and rapidly reached a key milestone of driverless operation in a simulated load and haul cycle setting.
Scania’s vans have potential benefits over conventional heavy haulage vans, each by way of emissions and productiveness.
In using Scania’s autonomous mining vans, vitality necessities, mining footprint and infrastructure necessities might be lowered, which means that capital and working bills may additionally be lowered at appropriate websites.
The Channar three way partnership (Rio Tinto share 60%, Sinosteel share 40%) owns the Channar mine within the Pilbara area of Western Australia. The mine is managed by Rio Tinto and the three way partnership settlement offers Sinosteel with off-take rights for a quantity of Pilbara Mix (into which Channar ore feeds) equal to Channar manufacturing.
