41 are hoping there ’ s a significant pull back in equity prices , because then they ’ d buy everything - with every pension fund in the world under-funded they can ’ t afford not to . That ’ s part of the reason I think we ’ re seeing an annulation of hard assets rising , and it ’ s not just raw materials , it ’ s infrastructure too . Meanwhile , a new world of cryptocurrencies shows there are those who believe we could have currencies without any hard assets underpinning them . A reaction to that has been a new bid for gold proving that ultimately the mining industry is not going to disappear . The other key pressure on mining is from sustainability and environmental issues , but increasingly miners are aiming to respond positively to these concerns and I think drones can be a huge part of that effort .”
Looking ahead Malmgren will be speaking at the World of Drones congress in Brisbane in September while H Robotics is in discussions with the Australian government and its mining community about supply robotics to the industry as it has done in Africa . “ We ’ re also working in other
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