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James Palmer, BMA asset president, said haul trucks at Goonyella Riverside mine would be fitted with autonomous vehicle technology, allowing the completion of an extensive study and engagement with the workforce, community and all levels of government.
According to BMA, there will be no forced employee redundancies at Goonyella Riverside as a result of this decision with respect to autonomous haulage. In fact, Palmer said with the recent recruitment of permanent positions in BHP Operations Services and the creation of roles through autonomous haulage, overall permanent job numbers across BMA operations would increase.
He said BMA's long-term commitment to the region was underpinned by a responsibility to provide training opportunities for local workers to ensure they had access to the skills and capabilities to succeed in the future of mining. The introduction of autonomous haulage at Goonyella Riverside will involve the staged conversion to an autonomous fleet of up to 86 Komatsu trucks over the next two years.
It will build on the mine's strong production record by increasing truck hours and delivering more consistent cycle times. Haulage automation is also expected to improve safety by reducing risk exposure and decreasing significant events. As BMA's first site to implement autonomous haulage, Palmer said BMA had been talking to its workforce and the local community about the potential for increased automation of mining operations for several months leading up to today's announcement.
To help prepare for Goonyella Riverside's autonomous future, it is estimated more than 40, hours of training will be delivered, ranging from general awareness to extensive training for those operating equipment, interacting with the autonomous haul trucks or taking on new roles. No further decisions have been made to implement autonomous haulage at any other site in Queensland Coal. Any future decisions to implement autonomous haulage will be made on a site-by-site basis. Smyth said the union was calling on BHP to commit to no forced redundancies for workers affected by automation and to offer extra jobs and apprenticeships in other parts of the business to offset any changes in job numbers.
The union also wants remote operations centres to be located on or near affected mines, rather than in capital cities thousands of kilometres away. Smyth wants the Queensland government to insist any automation project be accompanied by an economic impact statement that includes impact on local jobs and economic activity.
The union's suggestion is that where automation programmes do lead to job losses in local and regional jobs, additional royalties be collected and provided to the local communities. Originally the mine consisted of two separate open cut mines: Goonyella Mine ML which was developed in ; and Riverside Mine ML which was developed in In the two mines were amalgamated and re-registered as the Goonyella Riverside Mine.
A new underground mine Broadmeadow Mine is being developed on ML and will commence production in late It will contribute an additional 4 million tonnes per annum Mtpa to the 12 Mtpa already mined from the open cut operations.
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Mining is then carried out with the use of front end loaders and hydraulic shovels. Excavators are used to minimise the need for blasting. The raw coal is taken from the pit with a fleet of five CAT bottom dump trucks and seven tonne CAT rear dump trucks.
These trucks haul the coal from between 16 and 30 kilometres depending on the face being worked at the time as two or three faces are always worked on each shift to ensure blending. The coal mining fleet at Goonyella is controlled by means of a satellite tracking system. The coal is blended at the coal preparation plant and crushed to less than 50 mm.
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