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By Shane Lasley
Metal Tech News 

Autonomous Cat trucks coming to AZ mine

Metal Tech News - November 1, 2023

 

Last updated 11/15/2023 at 6:51pm

Cat 793 haul truck rounds a bend on its way to be loaded at the Bagdad Mine.

Caterpillar Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is converting the fleet of Cat 793 mining trucks at its Bagdad copper-molybdenum mine in Arizona to autonomous models equipped with Caterpillar's MineStar.

Freeport partners with Caterpillar to convert fleet of 33 mining haul trucks at Bagdad copper mine in Arizona to autonomous Cat MineStar models.

Bringing the autonomous mines of the future one large step to present-day reality, Freeport-McMoRan is converting the 33 human-driven, 250-ton Cat haul trucks at its Bagdad copper-molybdenum mine in Arizona to a fleet of the latest self-drivin...



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