{"id":193784,"date":"2024-07-30T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous"},"modified":"2024-07-30T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T03:22:23","slug":"bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous","title":{"rendered":"BHP\u2019s Spence copper mine in Chile now fully autonomous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bhps-spence-copper-mine-in-chile-now-fully-autonomous.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BHP\u2019s (ASX, NYSE: BHP) Spence copper mine in Chile has celebrated three months of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhp.com\/news\/media-centre\/releases\/2024\/07\/spence-celebrates-3-months-of-100-autonomous-operation-with-visit-from-komatsu-executives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the company\u2019s first fully autonomous operation<\/a>, a status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhp.com\/news\/articles\/2024\/04\/spence-achieves-100-autonomy-in-its-truck-fleet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reached in April<\/a> after a two-year journey that included converting its trucks fleet and drilling rigs.<\/p>\n<p>Spence, which produced 249,000 tonnes of copper last year, is BHP\u2019s second largest copper mine behind Escondida, the world\u2019s biggest copper operation. In the three months to July 29, the copper operation has moved 80 million tonnes of material without any safety incidents, surpassing the production plan to date, BHP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP\u2019s (ASX, NYSE: BHP) Spence copper mine in Chile has celebrated three months of being the company\u2019s first fully autonomous operation, a status reached in April after a two-year journey that included converting its trucks fleet and drilling rigs. Spence, which produced 249,000 tonnes of copper last year, is BHP\u2019s second largest copper mine behind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}