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“ WE ’ RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT COMBINING OUR MACHINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH WITH BETTER WAYS TO DO DATA ANALYTICS IN A PUBLIC REPORTING SPACE . THAT ’ S WHERE OPAXE COMES IN ”
— René Sterk , Managing Director , RSC
coming up with novel ideas . One of the things we ’ ve developed is a resource intelligence product that ’ s become very popular . We ’ ve recently spun that off into a daughter company called Opaxe , providing mineral intelligence to mining professionals and investors . The data analytics space is where the industry is looking for new solutions with things like big data and machine learning . We ’ re very excited about combining our machine learning experience and research with better ways to do data analytics in a public reporting space . That ’ s where Opaxe comes in .” www . opaxe . com
Sterk recently took on a Director role at the Australian Institute of Minerals and Metallurgy ( AusIMM ) where he hopes to contribute at board level for three years . Why is he so keen to give back to the community that has supported his business endeavours ? “ We need to encourage the next generation to enter the mining industry ,” he argues . “ It ’ s critical to build a strong industry and AusIMM allows professionals to come together to find ways
JULY 2019