A group of 14 key OEMs and mining companies is on a mission to drive zero emissions technology and accelerate mine electrification
DIGITAL MINING
Electric Mine Consortium :
DECARBONISING THE MINING INDUSTRY
A group of 14 key OEMs and mining companies is on a mission to drive zero emissions technology and accelerate mine electrification
WRITTEN BY : DANIEL BRIGHTMORE
Fourteen mining firms and industry services companies , including State of Play , Sandvik , Epiroc , OZ Minerals , South32 , Gold Fields , Safescape , Dassault Systèmes , Energy Vault , Hahn , Horizon Power , 3ME , IGO and Barminco have joined together to form the Electric Mine Consortium aimed at decarbonising the mining industry .
Electrification The genesis for the Consortium was the 2020 report State of Play – Electrification . The State of Play platform was initiated by VCI in partnership with The University of Western Australia in 2011 and is now the world ’ s largest mining research platform for strategy and innovation . It was sponsored by The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre , METS Ignited and Project 412 . The report covered extensive research aimed to understand the drivers and barriers of mine electrification , identify the key enabling technologies and enable collaboration to accelerate its adoption .
40 May 2021