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176 between mining companies and their suppliers . “ The landscape is changing ,” he says . “ It ’ s a lot more collaborative and we ’ re seeing more joint strategic thinking that will benefit the industry as a whole . It needs to be a win-win situation with the mining company / supplier relationship . Suppliers need to be able to sell their services and products out of co-creation partnerships . Equally , however , the mining companies are entitled to some form of competitive advantage as co-creators . Traditionally , it takes around 15 years in the sector to implement an innovation from ideation to industrial deployment . Co-creation can cut this to less than five years .”
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CRC ORE deploys a variety of levers for different approaches to gangue rejection . “ We ’ re doing a lot of work with fusing sensor technology ,” confirms Dr Adair . “ This goes way beyond the promotion of point solutions by individual companies , so common in the industry today . Our experience has shown we need more integrated solutions . There is no silver bullet with
“ Our experience has shown we need more integrated solutions . There is no silver bullet with any one approach ; it ’ s important to integrate with the best of the best ”
— Dr . Ben Adair , CEO , CRC ORE
SUMMER / AUTUMN 2020