LeachingLeaching pads in ChileChile face significant challenges due to harsh environmental conditions and difficult terrain, posing risks such as falls, sun exposure, physical strain, gas inhalation, and communication breakdowns. To address these issues, EPCM ChileChile developed an automated irrigationIrrigation system powered by renewable energy to enhance leachingLeaching efficiencyEfficiency, worker safetySafety, and copper recoveryCopper recovery. The system has several key objectives: to maximize copper productionCopper production from leachingLeaching piles by ensuring uniform application of leachingLeaching solution across pre-designated areas using a custom irrigationIrrigation grid. Reduce manual worker intervention and minimize their exposure to critical risks. Maintain optimal irrigationIrrigation uniformity throughout the leachingLeaching process, ensuring the irrigationIrrigation rate remains stable and potential vulnerabilities in the piles are addressed. Continuous monitoring through a control room, AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)-equipped drones, and field cameras enables real-time anomaly detectionAnomaly detection and prompt interventions. Powered by renewable energy from northern ChileChile, the system ensures sustainable production while maintaining worker safetySafety. Over a 60-day cycle, there has been a 1.4% increase in soluble copper recoveryCopper recovery, demonstrating the system's effectiveness. The initial flow rateFlow rate, which was 78% before automationAutomation, has improved to 99.48% during a leachingLeaching cycle, drastically reducingReducing the need for human intervention. The automated control system, consisting of control stations, offers safe and efficient leachingLeaching solutions under optimal conditions, minimizing undesirable effects from deviations. This enables real-time decision-making that is both quick and precise, allowing irrigationIrrigation modellingModelling to be adapted to specific conditions, whether environmental, physical, or natural.