Barrick – mining data for gold
Traditional hard rock mining has nearly reached its limits of efficiency. Data mining is coming to the rescue with machines learning how to extract the most value.
BHP Billiton: Productivity enhanced by machine learning in the mining industry
Mining is one of the first industries to start seeing a return on their early investments in machine learning. But why is artificial intelligence so important for this industry?
Data is the new oil: Rio Tinto builds new intelligent mine
An executive "innovation field trip" to America, marked the beginning of a new era for Rio Tinto. That happened merely a decade ago, and now as data turns the new oil, the company must follow its innovative approach and evolve.
Rio Tinto – Mining Data like Diamond
When surviving competitively afloat the mining industry’s ocean of high and low tides seemed impossible, Rio Tinto leveraged Big Data and Machine Learning to revolutionize the mining industry over the past decade, through its state-of-the-art autonomous operations.
How machine learning will disrupt mineral exploration
Goldspot Discovery Inc. is revolutionizing the mining industry by exploring and discovering mineral deposits with the aid of machine learning techniques.
Driving into the Future: The Impact of Self-Driving Haul Trucks on Oil Sands Mining Giant, Suncor Energy
Canada’s oil sands mining industry faces the entry of self-driving haul trucks as a means to lower operating costs. In an economic environment of low crude oil prices and an unclear future for oil sands mining, is this an investment Suncor Energy should commit to?
Machine Learning for Exploration
The poor state of mineral exploration and the potential role machine learning will play in the future
Rio Tinto – Digging into the Data and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies
Leading mining companies like Rio Tinto are developing and deploying autonomous haulage technologies in-house and using big data to make smarter real-time decisions at the rock face. What are some of the opportunities and challenges presented by these advances?
From the tundra to the savannah: climate change risk for a global mining company
Rio Tinto, the second largest diversified mining company in the world, combats different types of climate change risks across its geographically diverse global footprint.
The Mining Industry in Chile and its Solar Bet
The Chilean energy landscape has changed. In 2014 governmental policies allowed the competitive entrance of clean energy to the Chilean market with solar energy at its center. This creates an opportunity for Antofagasta Minerals, a private copper mining group, to utilize clean energy to lower its carbon emissions and lower costs generated by electrical energy.