FLEETS

Lihir stays in control

RCT recently announced that it had installed its remote control technology on four pieces of mining equipment at Newcrest’s Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea. MM caught up with RCT’s account manager Wayne Carrington to discuss the project

The gold deposit at Lihir is within the Luise Caldera, an extinct volcanic crater that is geothermally active

The gold deposit at Lihir is within the Luise Caldera, an extinct volcanic crater that is geothermally active

The tech provider is no stranger at the Lihir site, as back in the late 2000s, it supplied the operation's mobile machines with ControlMaster Line-of-Sight remote-control systems, and continues to support...

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