Mining Magazine February 2019 | Page 68

Dr Kash Sirinanda
SUSTAINABILITY
68 circular economy can be applied to claims that with two Liam lines up and any organisation thinking about how running , they can take apart up to 2.4 mn to manage its own waste and how to phones a year . Let ’ s examine these build a recycling unit . Driving these statistics further . concepts would be a step towards a Apple has saved $ 140,000 , which it greener economy and a better would normally pay to mining companies , by recycling 100,000 iPhones . environment for the next generation . Imagine , in the future , other companies The value is based on current prices similar to Apple driving the concept of of mined materials . These types of sustainability . Apple pledges to stop recycling mechanisms can be used in mining for iPhone materials and has other industries such as manufacturing , installed Liam , a line of robots that can automotive , building and construction , quickly disassemble the iPhone 6 . It and those involving chemicals and
EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Dr Kash Sirinanda

Futurist at Elite Futurists & Founder , Mine Connector
Dr Kash Sirinanda has a doctorate in mine planning and optimisation from the University of Melbourne , Australia . During his PhD studies and post-doctoral work , Kash developed algorithms for generating designs that maximise the NPV of a mining operation . That work provides the basis for software that assists mine planners to design more profitable mines . Kash was also a visiting scholar at the Colorado School of Mines , USA . He has worked on various mining projects which include due diligence , operation , analytics , optimisation and digital in different commodities around the globe . FEBRUARY 2019