Tanzania.
The massive explosion at the Mkuju River deposit did not stop the Atlas Group from mining.
The first batch of workers, who had undergone Brain-Computer Interface modifications and in-brain training, lay in Access Pods, remotely controlling the "Tanzania" Engineering Robots walking through the radiation zone.
The explosion had completely transformed the surface land, exposing parts of the deposit that had already been close to the surface.
An explosion like this would normally fill the mining environment with radioactive dust, while geological changes would also increase the risks to miners. But now, with the Tanzania Engineering Robots in use, these risks had almost no effect on the workers.
The only downside was that radioactive dust was drifting away on the wind, slightly raising radiation levels in settlements hundreds of kilometers away.
The related evacuation efforts had been ongoing for a long time.
Chug, chug.
A robot already in mass production watched a drilling excavator at work, with a cable at its side connected to the enormous machine.
[Tanzania Engineering Robot Type I] [Height: 2.1 meters] [Weight: 225 kilograms] [Maximum load: 32 kilograms] [Functions: multifunctional arms, adaptive chassis (treads and bipedal mode), advanced sensing system, environmental monitoring]
Open-pit mining equipment had been set up on soil contaminated by the nuclear explosion. High-purity ore was sorted and sent to a crusher, then directly on to the next stage of purification. The contaminated soil was sent to a waste recycling station, where, after preliminary processing, it was sent to SCFR's waste recycling module.
The robots were like humans, only more stiff in their movements. But they were stronger, and could use all kinds of electric vehicles. From a distance, they looked little different from a human-operated mine.
A few seconds later, the drill stopped. A large electric truck stopped beside it,