Rio Tinto is replacing workers with driverless trucks at its Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia.
See http://www.mining.com/2011/11/02/rio-tinto-boosts-driverless-truck-fleet-for-use-in-pilbara/.
LMN member group Partizans notes that in the past, Rio Tinto seemed to favour eliminating workers by having them shot: Sir Auckland Geddes, Rio Tinto chairman, said to shareholders at its 1937 London AGM: “Since the [Rio Tinto] mining region [in Andalusia] was occupied by General Franco’s forces, there have been no further labour problems…Miners found guilty of troublemaking are court-martialled and shot” [“Plunder!”, published byPartizans, London and Christchurch, 1991, page 8].