Miners take "rail-veyors" and robots to automated future

Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 08:40 in Earth & Climate

SUDBURY, Ontario (Reuters) - In an office trailer parked outside a mine shaft in northern Ontario, operator Carolyn St-Jean leans back in her chair and monitors a machine loading nickel-rich ore into rail cars deep underground.

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