Autonomous mining trucks and equipment –
The trucks and load haul dumpers are enormous, and so are the drill rigs, which is what I'm slowly getting to now! These drill rigs, called Pit Vipers, are 30-meter-high machines that drill 17-meter-deep holes in the rock, 50cm in diameter, which are then filled with explosives and subsequently almost 1,400 cubic meters of rock is blasted to pieces for subsequent transportation out of the mine.