Deployment
AutoMine at Mount Isa
Sandvik's AutoMine is a mining automation ecosystem spanning loaders, trucks, drills, and mapping with tele-remote and fully autonomous modes; long established underground, it extended to surface drill-and-blast with AutoMine Surface Fleet in 2025.
AutoMine by Sandvik · Operated by Glencore · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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Glencore's George Fisher Mine near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, runs Sandvik AutoMine automation. Loaders have operated on AutoMine since July 2020, and in 2024 Glencore added three automated Sandvik Toro TH663i trucks, with the automated fleet expanding toward ten loaders by 2025. Glencore is the mine operator.
Key facts
- Site
- George Fisher Mine, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
- Operator
- Glencore
- System
- Sandvik AutoMine (loaders since Jul 2020; 3 automated Toro TH663i trucks added 2024)
- Fleet growth
- Toward ten loaders by 2025
Safety record
No incidents on record for AutoMine at Mount Isa.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-07-12
- Model
- AutoMine
- Company
- Sandvik
- Location
- Australia/Queensland/Mount Isa
- Operator
- Glencore
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2020-07-01
- ID
0d85dbc0-f899-4dd7-a1d8-b51a0e12e371
Timeline
- Jul 2020First recordedAutoMine first documented operating at Mount Isa.
- Jul 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
AutoMine operates in Mount Isa. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
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Methodology surface for AutoMine at Mount Isa.Common questions
- What is the AutoMine deployment at Mount Isa?
- AutoMine, built by Sandvik, is recorded as a deployment at Mount Isa on the DEPLOY registry. Glencore operates the deployment.
- Who operates AutoMine at Mount Isa?
- Glencore operates this deployment as a customer of Sandvik, the manufacturer of AutoMine.
- When did the AutoMine deployment at Mount Isa go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting July 1, 2020 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the AutoMine deployment at Mount Isa?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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