Generations Of Miners Face The Future Of Automation Deep Underground

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A proud third-generation miner, Mickey O'Brien enjoys the daily grind of taking that deep dive to the centre of the earth. A miner at Vale's Copper Cliff Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, O'Brien works 10-hour shifts. After suiting up and assembling, he and his coworkers break into several crews to begin the hot and dirty task of gnawing away at the earth more than 1.5 km underground. "I&

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