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Mining Boom Spurs New Positioning Solutions   May 19, 2010
By: Geoff Roberts,Rob Lorimer

Open-pit mining (also called open-cut, open-cast, and strip mining) has historically been an early and innovative adopter of new positioning technologies. Some of the earliest examples of fitting GPS to heavy earth-moving machinery occurred in the U.S., Australian, and Canadian mining industries in...more >>




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