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Mariana Minerals and Sandvik Partner to Pioneer Fully Autonomous Drill Operations at U.S. Copper Mine
Mariana Minerals, the world's only software-first, vertically-integrated minerals company, and Sandvik, a global leader in mining equipment, automation, and digital solutions, today announced a partnership to deploy autonomous drilling technology across operations at Copper One, Mariana's autonomy-first copper mine in southeastern Utah.
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