Autonomous Trucks
Anglo American in Peru’s first Caterpillar 794 AC autonomous mining trucks using Command for hauling are now up and running in tests at the advanced development Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region, with the company stating: “We have achieved a new milestone for Peru, we will be the first mine with a fleet of autonomous trucks. It was planned that seven trucks would run automated in the South pit with the North pit initially running driver operated trucks. The latest images show there are now at least eight 794 AC units onsite. The autonomous ramp up plans was to see the full fleet of 30 trucks automated by October 2022. Anglo is also deploying autonomous blasthole drills at Quellaveco in the form of Epiroc Pit Viper 351 and SmartROC D65 drill rigs.