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Automation gets the most out of mining railway infrastructure

By and Thomas Salt and Kevin Mears2006-04-01T10:00:00

Earlier this year, faster, heavier and fully-automatic trains began running on the El Teniente copper mine's private railway, marking the culmination of a major upgrade to squeeze the maximum daily tonnage out of the infrastructure

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