The 268-wagon train started on its solo journey when the driver got down from his cab to carry out an inspection, and was soon hurtling along at up to 110 kilometres (68 miles) per hour. Mining giant ...

A mining company in Australia is using house-sized vehicles that drive themselves to automate the mining process from digging materials out of the earth to dropping them off at a warehouse. Everything ...

The mining giant's delay in the rollout of renewable energy and a fleet of electric trucks and trains in the Pilbara has raised doubts inside the company about it meeting its ambitious climate goal.

Rio Tinto said an autonomous train carrying iron ore from its mining operations in remote northwest Australia to a port derailed late Saturday and that efforts to recover the derailed wagons are under ...

A driverless Rio Tinto train has come off the tracks in Western Australia for the third time in the past 11 months, this time after colliding with a set of stationary wagons about 80km outside of ...