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of work for specialist drill and blast services and explosives invests in new technologies to evolve their mining operations
supply at the Great Western gold mine in Western Australia. and RCT is very pleased to guide them on this journey,” RCT
The three deals bring SRG’s total contract worth from mid- account manager Shane Smith said.
November to $471 million. “The mobile rockbreakers are utilised [near areas] prone
to wet muck rushes which represented a significant safety
hazard to site personnel.
STRIkE REAdIES ThE RIGS
“ControlMaster Guidance enables independent fleet
Strike Drilling Pty Ltd has been enlisted by Brightstar operations including faster tramming and consistent machine
Resources Ltd to undertake a 2,000m aircore programme
operations and prevents the machine from impacting against
over a number of targets at the Brightstar South gold project the walls of very narrow draw points.”
in Laverton.
Brightstar said the “short impactful” programme was
designed to test for anomalism in areas of historic mining
and prospecting.
Targets to undergo the drilling include Sailor Prince, Rowena
and Jubilee, all of which have shown previous anomalism but
bare modern exploration.
The West Australian Department of Mines has records
showing Sailor Prince to have been mined for 4,924 troy
ounces up until 1930. Under the ownership of Stone
Resources, Rowena recorded 110 troy ounces and Jubilee
recorded 150 troy ounces.

fREEPORT fREE fROM hARM’S WAY

PT Freeport Indonesia has assembled a fully autonomous
fleet of mobile rockbreakers to its underground Grasberg
Block Cave copper-gold-silver mine in West Papua via a
collaboration with RCT Global.
The autonomous technology will help to keep workers out
of harm’s way, such as wet muck rushes at Grasberg and
the Deep Mill Level Zone mine. The service also minimises
handover time between operators to boost efficiency.
The rockbreaker fleet uses RCT’s ControlMaster Guidance
service, a collaboration of technology described as a
“world first” by RCT.
In the past, ControlMaster has been used for more
than eight million hours of work across load haul dump RCT’s ControlMaster system allows for remote control of mining
production fleets. machinery, encouraging safer practices to remove workers from
“PT Freeport is a very innovative company and continually harms’ way

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