{"id":15956,"date":"2012-10-29T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T06:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/rpt-feature-miners-take-rail-veyors-and-robots-to-automated-future\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T06:07:47","slug":"rpt-feature-miners-take-rail-veyors-and-robots-to-automated-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-feature-miners-take-rail-veyors-and-robots-to-automated-future\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-FEATURE-Miners take &#8216;rail-veyors&#8217; and robots to automated future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New, automated mining equipment cuts costs, boosts safety<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Companies eye driverless vehicles, new digging methods<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Automation essential as miners dig deeper, in remote areas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Unions make peace with automation: &#8216;good for productivity&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Gordon<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SUDBURY, Ontario, Oct 28 (Reuters) &#8211; In an office trailer<br \/>\nparked outside a mine shaft in northern Ontario, operator<br \/>\nCarolyn St-Jean leans back in her chair and monitors a machine<br \/>\nloading nickel-rich ore into rail cars deep underground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once filled, the automated train will snake through a series<br \/>\nof narrow tunnels, emerge from a rocky outcropping, then loop<br \/>\npast St-Jean&#8217;s window and dump its payload for sorting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vale SA, the Brazilian company that owns the mine<br \/>\nnear this nickel-rich Canadian town, has spent nearly $50<br \/>\nmillion in two years to install and test the &#8220;rail-veyor.&#8221; The<br \/>\ncompany believes the transport system will revolutionize how it<br \/>\nbuilds and extracts new mineral deposits.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* New, automated mining equipment cuts costs, boosts safety * Companies eye driverless vehicles, new digging methods * Automation essential as miners dig deeper, in remote areas * Unions make peace with automation: &#8216;good for productivity&#8217; By Julie Gordon SUDBURY, Ontario, Oct 28 (Reuters) &#8211; In an office trailer parked outside a mine shaft in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}