Antapaccay Mine Starts Drill Automation

By Antapaccay-Glencore

December 26, 2022

This is a machine translation of the original press release issued in Spanish

Marking a milestone for the entire Glencore group, Antapaccay began the process of automating its drilling rigs. This technological advance will allow the equipment to be operated remotely from the control room.

The implementation of this technology will ensure constant operating cycles; keep operators out of dangerous operating zone conditions and improve real-time data acquisition to optimize rig performance.

In addition, the control of the high-precision drill allows optimizing the size of the fragmentation of the material broken by blasting for the loading, hauling, and crushing processes; reducing the costs of the production process.

With great satisfaction, the company announced that in this process the protagonists are the workers, the majority from Espinar, who thanks to the training process are the first multi-brand autonomous drilling rig operators in Peru.

"We are proud of the implementation of this initiative and even more, we set a milestone at a global level," said Carlos Cotera, general manager of Antapaccay, highlighting the versatility of the workers that has allowed them to transition from a conventional operation to a technological one.