Mining Magazine February 2019 | Page 65

GREEN MINING : SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING THE NEW NORM IN THE MINING SECTOR .
INDUCTRY CASES
Port
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Drones
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For shipment to customers
around the world
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RF IDs IoT implementation
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Transport
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Robotics Predictive maintenance Throughput optimisation
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Energy optimisation
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3D printing
ts of digital and advanced analytics
raw highly ducts
Handles ore from below the ground through processing to the ports
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Blockchain Autonomous vehicles Cloud Virtual Reality
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TRANSPORT
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Augmented Reality
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Gamification
the value chain , similar to the retail industry . Most other industries are leveraging Internet of Things ( IoT ) platforms to capture , store , clean , structure , and analyse data from sensors . It would help a mining company to run predictive maintenance , yield , energy , through-put optimisation ; this in turn would increase profits .
GREEN MINING : SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING THE NEW NORM IN THE MINING SECTOR .
In 2015 the UN adopted a new set of aspirations for the next 15 years ; the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). The UN defines 17 SDGs , which are broken down into 169 targets , for
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