MTS Acronyms (not abbreviations)
Across
- 4. Formed 2.6 billion years ago, when plants first began photosynthesis (3)
- 5. Strong winds might knock some of the smaller _ _ _ out the sky (3)
- 6. This team loves optimising, and open plan offices (3)
- 8. The alternative to this would be a simple grade destination Y chart with HG, BL, LG and W (4)
- 11. This is the least effective method of control on the hierarchy (3)
- 12. When your supervisor supervises you and their supervisor supervises them and their supervisor supervises them (3)
- 13. Meeting at the start of every swing (3)
- 15. Electronic administrative control that stops diggers digging (3)
- 19. The overseers of all Rio sites product and communicates with the port (4)
- 21. If the Geologists who found this got 0.1% of the profits, EVERYONE would want to be a Geo (4)
- 22. Trainers will test you on this (3)
- 24. One team, one dream. We are family (4)
- 25. Location of our best grade stockpiles (3)
- 26. It only takes 5 minutes! (4)
- 27. This MTS department LOVE blowing stuff up! (3)
- 29. The Geotechnical Engineering site bible (4)
- 31. Formerly known as the Dewatering team (3)
- 33. Your performance 6 commitment can't be a _ _ _ task (3)
- 35. Robot driller (3)
- 37. Database containing all Rio Tinto's grade data (4)
- 39. Definitely in the top 3 LEAST favourite acronyms for a Manager (or anyone) to hear in a meeting (3)
- 40. Dreaded but respected, a daily ritual for staying protected (3)
- 41. Essential document for controlling a long term fatal Geologically induced illness (4)
- 42. If this clunky but bulletproof ordering program had a motto, it would be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" (3)
- 44. Plant and digger breakdowns negatively affect this. Even so, we always aim for 100% _ _ _ (3)
- 45. Restricts the movements of autonomous drill rigs (3)
- 46. This checklist helps identify risks when driving a light vehicle (3)
- 48. Required when you need to work within 10m of a high wall (3)
- 50. All things related to blast vibration, heritage and management (3)
- 51. Please have it on my desk by _ _ _ today, Kindest of regards (3)
- 53. A discussion between engineers, drill team, blast team and production on yesterdays performance (3)
- 55. The way Survey receivers get information from satellites and provides them with accurate spatial positioning (3)
- 58. If the radar alarms and control can't get hold of pit supervisors, a _ _ _ _ is executed (4)
- 60. A system in place to keep everyone safe from fatal risks (3)
- 61. Geotechnical engineers use this system for risk assessment (6)
- 62. You need to complete one of these when you're driving off site (3)
- 63. You may get one of these when starting your shift after new years on site (3)
- 65. Database containing Rio Tinto's production data (3)
Down
- 1. A type of stockpile reclaiming and tipping process (begins with L) (4)
- 2. Required when you're unable to effectively control the risks in your take 5 (3)
- 3. You need one of these for all frequented tasks (3)
- 5. Time to spend time with our loved ones and our jet skis (3)
- 7. Very helpful to follow when you're trying to complete a new task (not necessarily safety related) (3)
- 9. Survey loves this Russian creation (7)
- 10. A type of stockpile tipping and reclaiming process (begins with F) (4)
- 14. Area of the plant where ore begins its journey off site (3)
- 16. A meeting to discuss the previous days performance between control and site (3)
- 17. The plant hates it, but technically it's still high grade. It's very porous and yellow (3)
- 18. The more of this we produce, the more money we make. (3)
- 20. You'll be making a mad dash here to change your flight to the one that isn't delayed (5)
- 22. This checklist helps identify risks when on foot around other vehicles (3)
- 23. System on autonomous trucks that detects cows, reflections, dust and people (3)
- 25. Essential for safely planning your journey in the pit. We look at it every morning (5)
- 28. Things get awfully sticky _ _ _. Good thing we have dewatering pumps (3)
- 30. This team despises free digging because of the wear on the machines (3)
- 32. Machine with many wheels that makes blast crew offsiders come back dirty and smelly (3)
- 33. The design to manage a blast (3)
- 34. Completing these keep you safe from stuff that can kill you (3)
- 35. Broad safety reporting metric, often discussed in safety meetings (4)
- 36. Invented by America for the military, it's now used by survey for accurate location tracking (3)
- 38. We make it, and production tries to follow this as best as they can (4)
- 40. The total sum of vibration calculated of the blast (3)
- 41. Great work lifestyle to get platinum status (4)
- 43. Small white spherical partials coated in fossil fuels (4)
- 47. Dozers and graders bread and butter. Sidenote - it doesn't make grammatical sense when people say _ _ _ _ it up (4)
- 49. Hard hat and gloves are mandatory in here (3)
- 50. Our brave saviours, their emblem is the warthog (3)
- 52. Guidelines for managing rocky and sticky feed through the plant (3)
- 54. The smartest minds in the Pilbara, Rio Tinto would be lost without this team (3)
- 55. This metric is visible in RTVis and represents how fast drills drill (3)
- 56. Dozers in the autonomous area might activate this to let trucks pass (3)
- 57. The grade controllers least favourite acronym to hear on a phone call (3)
- 59. Rio Tinto's new program that will hopefully replace blast hole sampling one day (4)
- 64. If you feel like a seat massage in the car, set this bad boy off (3)
- 66. You never want to cross the red projected lines from this (3)