TECHNOLOGY

Automation shortening post-blast lull

Blasting is one of the biggest time thieves in underground mining. An Australian gold mine has turned to automation to get around this.

 Technology-agnostic automation is the way forward for Granny Smith.

Technology-agnostic automation is the way forward for Granny Smith.

When an underground mine blasts much of the workings have to be evacuated until the fumes from the blast have been cleared. At Gold Fields' Granny Smith underground gold mine in Western Australia's...

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