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Roy Hill Becomes World’s Largest Fully Agnostic Autonomous Mine
Epiroc AB recently announced it has successfully converted – from manual to fully driverless – all 78 mining haul trucks at Hancock Iron Ore’s Roy Hill mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The conversions – utilizing Epiroc’s LinkOA system – are a major milestone on the journey toward creating the world’s largest fully agnostic autonomous mine. Epiroc and Hancock Iron Ore have collaborated closely with this goal: to create the world’s largest fully agnostic autonomous mine. Now, 78 haul trucks have been converted, and 60 of them are allocated to autonomous operation. The next step is to deploy the remaining trucks and finalize the mine’s ancillary vehicles’ communications capability. LinkOA is interoperable and scalable regardless of manufacturer, so called Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agnostic. Ultimately, the mine’s autonomous fleet will comprise 54 Caterpillar 793F trucks and 24 Hitachi EH5000 trucks. Hancock Iron Ore (HIO), one of the world’s leading iron ore producers, was created this year when Hancock’s Atlas Iron and Roy Hill joined forces. “HIO was inspired by the work of our executive chairman, Dr Gina Rinehart AO, and executive director Tad Watroba, who selected Epiroc to help lead autonomous mining haulage initially at Roy Hill,” said Gerhard Veldsman, Hancock Iron Ore CEO. Hancock Iron Ore’s autonomous haul trucks navigate the Roy Hill mine’s virtual map, communicating with ancillary vehicles and the Remote Operations Centre (ROC) located some 1,100 km away in Perth. More than 250 million t of material have been moved autonomously using LinkOA and the trucks have safely travelled around 6 million km, equivalent to going around the world more than 150 times, delivering consistent results that redefine what is possible in surface mining.
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