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Originally posted by Parsifal
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sorry I might not have been sure what you were talking about because all the mines I had anything to do with involved a shift from labour led work to machine based work. For example as I understand it block cave mining has been automated and that means not using people in the haulage process as well as the Extraction but they are still involved in setting it up. Likewise automated dump trucks that don’t need people. I am pretty sure I remember talk, when I was in the sector, of things ultimately being driven from a control room. We had started selection processes looking at fine motor skills and visual judgment, and similar, to handle the shift in skills that would happen. It wasn’t envisaged that all human interaction of involvement would be eliminated in the short term but it’s inevitable in the long term.
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I was talking about the automation where human involvement is minimal to derive as much profit and then downplay human risk. A friend was driving trucks not long ago - was a short contract but still people driving trucks in mines and being trained. There's a lot of training/medical etc., employed here. They had labour disputes going on as with the downturn only casual were put on.
