Kemar Minerals Inc. Choose Liebherr to Supply Their Malartic project in Québec with its First Autonomous Truck

The company are currently expanding the project and require the autonomous truck to make the collections and deposits of tailing from their production plant, a journey of just over 1 kilometer. These trips are currently requiring 2 trucks and 6 personnel to complete which the company believe they can now perform with the 1 autonomous truck and only 3 to 4 personnel.

The autonomous vehicle is expected to be fully operational within 2 weeks of delivery to the site which is due to be delivered during the 1st week of September.

Mr. Ferdinand Wray, Director of Operations at Kemar Minerals Inc. explained, "With autonomous vehicles becoming more widely used within the mining sector we will always adopt such working practices to streamline the operation of the project. We are extremely keen to see what other capabilities it has to offer when delivered which could also be of benefit to us."

Although this is Kemar Minerals Inc's first autonomous truck in Canada the company do operate one other at their part owned La Centza gold and silver mining project located in Ecuador, but this is the first Liebherr manufactured one the company will own outright.

Grant Young of Liebherr commented, "We are extremely pleased that Kemar have finally taken the plunge in taking one of our autonomous trucks for use with their mining operations. Although we had to fight hard to win the deal, we know that it's going to become an invaluable asset to them and will without doubt allow us to become a mainstream equipment supplier to them in the future."

"My team at the Malartic project are looking forward to receiving delivery as it will be able to very quickly free up a bottleneck that we are experiencing at this project. This in turn will allow us to become far more efficient in what we do best, namely extracting precious metals out of the ground," Ferdinand Wray added.

The amount involved for the purchase of the vehicle was not disclosed, although it is believed the deal between the 2 companies was in excess of $5 million USD.