IGF CASE STUDIES Automation and Water-Saving Technologies Secretariat hosted by Secretariat funded by Automation and Water-Saving Technologies INTRODUCTION The rapid advance of new technologies in the to leverage opportunities and manage the likely mining industry is completely reshaping the negative impacts to prevent social discontent. [...] To avoid discontent and conflict, policy-makers For instance, technologies like automation and the mining industry—in consultation with will improve the productivity and efficiency local communities—will have to work together of mines, but these benefits for the industry to ensure that those stakeholders who stand to will come at a cost to certain types of lose will find decent and sustainable alt [...] In the last decade, the region operations: Pilbara mine sites are gigantic, of Pilbara, known for its world-class iron ore the quality of the ore grade is high and reserves (roughly 20 per cent of global stock), the volume of total annual material has been at the forefront of technological movement exceeds the minimum required breakthroughs in mining operations, taking to make such technology effi [...] IMPACTS FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY The macro impact for the region of Western The deployment of AHS in Pilbara generated Australia does not seem to be significant. [...] Given the Beyond the fact that the government holds nature of the ore body, in order to be profitable a 20 per cent stake in the operations, the it was necessary to reduce the cost profile of Syama mine is an important contributor to the the mine.
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