ST. PAUL — Just one of the giant diesel-fueled dump trucks in Minnesota’s iron ore mines emits 2,400 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 520 gasoline passenger vehicles. But a ...

The mining truck market is poised for strong growth driven by autonomous technology adoption, electrification, and ...

ST. PAUL — Just one of the giant diesel-fueled dump trucks in Minnesota’s iron ore mines emits 2,400 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of 520 gasoline passenger vehicles. But a ...

GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (KGUN) — Caterpillar Inc. is ushering in a new era of mining equipment with its first all-electric mining truck. Consumer vehicles aren’t the only things going electric. The ...

China's Huaneng Group has deployed the world's first fleet of driverless mining trucks. 100 trucks can autonomously load and unload coal. The project kicked off at the Huaneng Yimin open-pit mine in ...

VIRGINIA, Minn. -- The King of the Lode was an easy one to drive, said Jim Drobnick. "Just like driving a two-story house," said the retired production truck driver from LTV Steel in Hoyt Lakes. It ...

Caterpillar has demonstrated its first battery-electric mining truck in prototype form. The Caterpillar 793 is a large mining dump truck with a battery-electric powertrain. It was developed in ...

Hydrogen proponents tried to picture the battery-electric vehicle as mere toys, barely suitable as personal vehicles. For serious jobs, they said, hydrogen is the best solution. Caterpillar begs to ...

TUBA CITY ― Brown Preston was in his early 20s when he and six of his relatives took jobs at a uranium mine in Uravan, Colorado. It was one of the only good jobs available on the Navajo Nation in the ...

Human haul driving is doomed to become a profession of the past, as several pioneers around the world race to scale their autonomous haulage solutions. Among them is China-based Eacon Mining ...

A fleet of 100 Huaneng Ruichi autonomous electric mining trucks, the first of its kind in the world, has officially entered operation at the Yimin open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia, China. Powered by a ...