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Comprehensive dust suppression, shields that automatically know where your people are and protect them during an advancing face – these are simple but powerful tools for mining, and these examples are just one way Caterpillar can help improve the work environment at your mine.

Comprehensive dust suppression, shields that automatically know where your people are and protect them during an advancing face – these are simple but powerful tools for mining, and these examples are just one way Caterpillar can help improve the work environment at your mine.

Caterpillar is committed to fully autonomous mining by 2020, and we’re doing it by investing in new technologies that will take longwall coal mining – and potentially your mine – to the next level of productivity and safe operation. Our technologies can be retrofitted to your current equipment – no matter the original equipment provider.