Rio Tinto Tuesday trimmed its iron ore production outlook in Western Australia for 2017 by up to 20 million mt, due to delays in rolling out its automated train system.
The Anglo-Australian miner is now expecting to produce 330 million-340 million mt in the Pilbara in 2017, down from its previous target of 350 million mt.
Rio's 'AutoHaul' driverless, heavy-haul train network was expected to be completed by mid-2016, but despite more than 75,000 km of trials is experiencing some technical delays.
Melbourne-based Rio spokesman Bruce Tobin said there was no revised timeframe for the completion of AutoHaul, though he emphasized the system's importance in lifting production capacity in Western Australia from around 340 million mt/year currently to 350 million mt/year and beyond.
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