Automation Advances in Heavy Mining: CiDi Already Operates over 1,700 Autonomous Vehicles Across Approximately 30 Mines and Quarries, Enabling One Operator to Monitor About 100 Trucks While Robots Are Being Prepared for Transporting Explosives and Drilling, with Electric Fleets Operating Driverless 24 Hours a Day. The digital transformation of mines is advancing to a scale that only a few years ago belonged to pilot projects. In July 2026, Reuters reported that the Chinese company CiDi already had a global fleet of more than 1,700 autonomous vehicles distributed across about 30 coal mines and quarries, mainly in China. In some large operations, hundreds of driverless trucks must be coordinated simultaneously by dispatch and control software. This leap is not limited to ore transport. The company is preparing robotic machines to handle explosive loads and rock drilling, while partially autonomous excavators are moving forward to operations outside China. At the same time, CiDi reports that it can now operate with a remote intervention ratio of one professional for up to 100 trucks and that its autonomous equipment had transported more than 140 million tons by February 2026. - A Highway is in the Way of 20.8 Tons of Gold: BR-226 Will Be Relocated in Northeast Brazil to Unlock $1 Billion Mine and Expand Reserves by 82% - At 2,000 meters in the Andes, a city without streets for cars welcomed 15,000 residents, transformed a staircase into the main avenue, spread colorful houses across the hillside, and operated next to the largest underground copper mine in the world. - To sleep about 419 meters under a mountain in Wales, guests wear helmets, traverse tunnels of an old slate mine, and reach four cabins and a lit grotto deep underground. - Wall of one of the largest copper mines in the United States begins