Mining Magazine June 2014 | Page 27

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recent deployment of driverless trucks has allowed the company to increase mining productivity while simultaneously reducing costs . We sat down with BHP ’ s president of coal , Dean Dalla Valle to discuss the company ’ s recent success and how the introduction of technology is improving it operations .

‘ In 2013 , BHP Billiton ’ s coal business produced 154-million tons of coal , including both metallurgical coal and energy coal ’

Implementing innovation The concept of driverless technology
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