Mining needs to embrace its role as an agent of change for good – and tell the story of how it does this better – if it wants to continue to compete for investment dollars and talent in the future, according to International Council of Mining and Metals CEO Tom Butler.
While automation is often seen as a silver bullets that can solve a range of mining’s problems, for Roy Hill’s Christine Eriksen automation is actually a holistic approach with the majority of the time, effort and funds to be invested in changing in the people working with the technology on the frontline.
Within the highly competitive and capital-intensive mining sector, crowdsourced technology-driven solutions to some of the industry's most challenging problems are being unearthed.
“In the last 20 years, we have seen remarkable growth in the resources sector. We have double the number of people working in mining today than we did before the mining boom. The mining sector regularly contributes over $20 billion in corporate taxation, second to only financial services and it is our biggest export industry accounting for 57 per cent of our exports as a nation.
Automation has the power to blur the lines between Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and responsibilities from one area of the business to another.
Miners must prepare their workforce today, to meet the demands of tomorrow’s digital age, or risk future growth and innovation.
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If a community or government wants a bigger share of the pie, they may need to be willing to take on more of the risk.
The plants haven’t been running at full capacity after the court ruled last year that a change in regulations overseas couldn’t be a ground for increasing power prices.
Alrosa has joined rival De Beers' Tracr industry blockchain traceability platform, aimed at clearing the supply chain of imposters and conflict diamonds.