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Underground operations

Underground mining

Underground, the margins are metres. We plan traffic for narrow drives and blind intersections, and make sure detection and intervention work where line of sight doesn’t.

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Underground network view · muted · loopsFleet Intelligence demos

The interactions we design for.

Confined, dark and often single-lane — underground traffic needs rules and technology built for it.

  • Blind intersections

    Signalled junctions, priority rules and detection tuned for corners where operators can’t see each other.

  • Machines and crews

    Loaders and utility vehicles working beside people in drives, refuge bays and at the face.

  • Single-lane traffic

    Passing bays, right of way and traffic control for drives with no room to pass.

  • Development and drilling

    Drill rigs and service vehicles at the face, with exclusion zones that move with the work.

Watch it play out.

A simulated level: loaders wait at signalled crosscuts, a utility vehicle stops for the drill crew, and people crossing the main drive trigger interventions.

Underground fleet experience.

The machines that share drives with people every shift.

  • Dump trucksArticulated haulage
  • LHDsLoad-haul-dump
  • Underground drill rigsDevelopment and production
  • Light vehiclesLDVs
On the platform

The same view, below ground.

Underground CAS and machine data feed the same platform as surface, so interactions, interventions and machine health can be reviewed level by level.

Underground loader with its bucket lowered in a lit drive
Mine personnel with cap lamps walking through an underground drive
Underground field work