Mining desk
Autonomous haulage, fleet electrification, survey intelligence and the operational technology reshaping pits and quarries — covered with the operator’s economics in view, not the vendor’s.
Autonomous haulage is mining’s solved problem — the frontier has moved to everything around it
Caterpillar and Komatsu autonomous trucks have hauled billions of tonnes; Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs driverless trains across the Pilbara. The new race is drills, dozers, light vehicles and the pit’s digital twin.
2 August 2026 · 7 min read
The battery-electric haul truck order books are real: inside Fortescue’s zero-emission fleet bet
Fortescue’s multi-billion-dollar partnership with Liebherr — hundreds of battery-electric 240-tonne trucks, electric excavators and chargers — is the largest zero-emission mining equipment order placed anywhere.
2 August 2026 · 6 min read
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