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More drill automation for Thiess at Lake Vermont

Thiess is continuing to strengthen its autonomy capability with the use of a second drill fitted with an autonomous drilling system (ADS) at its Lake Vermont project in Australia.

 Thiess is operating a second fully-autonomous drill rig at the Lake Vermont project in Australia and will add a third autonomous rig later this year

Thiess is operating a second fully-autonomous drill rig at the Lake Vermont project in Australia and will add a third autonomous rig later this year

The introduction of a second drill on site will see Lake Vermont become the first coal mining operation to have two multi-pass fully autonomous rigs drilling side-by-side.  Since the introduction of...

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