Deployment
AutoMine at Kamloops
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.
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New Gold's New Afton copper-gold mine near Kamloops, British Columbia, deployed two autonomous Sandvik LH518iB battery-electric loaders on AutoMine, described as North America's first battery-electric autonomous loaders in an underground mine. New Gold Inc. is the mine operator.
Key facts
- Site
- New Afton copper-gold mine, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
- Operator
- New Gold Inc.
- Equipment
- Two Sandvik LH518iB battery-electric loaders on AutoMine
- Significance
- North America's first battery-electric autonomous underground loaders
Safety record
No incidents on record for AutoMine at Kamloops.
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
- Canada/British Columbia/Kamloops
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2024-11-01
- ID
3580aeea-c847-40f5-b1dd-3d840316166a
Timeline
- Nov 2024First recordedAutoMine first documented operating at Kamloops.
- 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 Kamloops. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for AutoMine at Kamloops.Common questions
- What is the AutoMine deployment at Kamloops?
- AutoMine, built by Sandvik, is recorded as a deployment at Kamloops on the DEPLOY registry. Sandvik operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates AutoMine at Kamloops?
- Sandvik, the manufacturer of AutoMine, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the AutoMine deployment at Kamloops go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting November 1, 2024 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the AutoMine deployment at Kamloops?
- 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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