Epiroc 3D haulage visibility at Odyssey: design and traffic notes for mine engineers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

First reported on International Mining – News
30 Second Briefing
Epiroc has rolled out new Deep Automation capabilities, developed and tested on autonomous truck fleets at Agnico Eagle’s Odyssey underground mine in Canada, to manage haulage across complex, multi-level ramp systems. The platform now provides true real-time 3D visibility of drives, intersections and loading points, improving traffic coordination, route planning and interaction between manned and unmanned equipment. For mine planners and engineers, this enables denser truck traffic on shared declines and more precise control of bottlenecks without adding new haulage infrastructure.
Technical Brief
- Similar multi-level ramp mines could use such orchestration to formalise traffic rules beyond traditional radio protocols.
Our Take
Epiroc features heavily in our mining database, with recent coverage on the MT66 S eDrive trial at Gold Fields’ Granny Smith and the DiscovOre/Arrow 3S system, signalling a push to integrate advanced digital and automation layers across both production haulage and exploration drilling fleets.
Deploying true 3D capability for underground operations at Agnico Eagle’s Odyssey Mine in Canada positions that site as an early proving ground for higher‑fidelity situational awareness, which operators often use to de‑risk later roll‑outs to more geotechnically complex or labour‑constrained mines.
Among the 1,093 tag‑matched ‘Projects/Product/Safety’ pieces in our coverage, relatively few combine all three tags around underground haulage, so this Deep Automation deployment is likely to be watched as a reference case for how real‑time visualisation can be tied directly to safety KPIs in autonomous truck operations.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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