Mining and metals
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Apple Wants to Bypass Commercial Mining
The iPhone is Apple’s most successful product to date; but there’s a problem. The rising demand for rare earth metals…
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Why Blockchain Technology Could Change Mining
There was a time when terms like “smart shunt” and “remote blaster” held no meaning at all in the mining…
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Why Mining Operations Need to Improve Water Management
There was a time when environmental ethos was more of a footnote to the mining industry. The government set standards,…
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Digging Deep on Health and Safety
The mining industry is evolving quickly, with automation and analytics at the centre of the conversation. But as orebodies recede,…
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6 Ways Underground Mines Will Be Reimagined in the 2020s
Thirty years ago, few people could have imagined the prevalence of digital wireless networks. These networks are now essential to…
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How Work Culture Affects Productivity in the Mining Industry
According to a 2019 study of 10 million Australian LinkedIn users, BHP is one of the top 20 companies Australians…
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Value Over Volume: The Mining Mindset of the Future?
One of Aesop’s lesser-known fables, The Soldier and His Horse, can speak to the idea of “value over volume” in…
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Are Mines Made of Information?
A significant number of modern physicists think the universe of made of information. The physical world amounts to a vast…
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A New Era in Mining Safety
If you search the internet for the most dangerous jobs in the 19th century, mining will show up on a…
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How Will Mining Exploration Change?
The Australian gold rush of the 1850s attracted people of all stripes – most of whom had never dug for…
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Can Lithium Ion Batteries Heal Themselves?
The connection between rare earth metals and sustainable technologies has led to some big questions for the mining industry. Will…