# Variant Mining Technologies builds world's largest ore chute for Rio Tinto

Variant Mining Technologies built the world's largest ore chute for Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. The chute is a controlled truck loading system for underground mining.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2019-08-12
- Where: Gobi Desert, Mongolia
- Status: completed
- Products: ore chute
- Sectors: [Mining Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/mining-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Variant Mining Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/41286.md)
- [Rio Tinto](https://endata.com/companies/4215.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [cbc.ca](http://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.5243699), 2019-08-12: "This system here is the first controlled, reliable, functionally safe truck loading system in the world."

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