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  Bill Tonks January 7, 2020 0:10

  Underground miners and mining itself will benefit from the introduction of battery powered vehicles replacing diesel vehicles. Zero CO, NO and NO2 emissions so better health. Only 1/3 of the energy produced per working kW AND a lot of this will be transformed into "work" so a lot less machine heat too. Less air required overall so will give a great saving in airpower. Less risk regarding fire (? experts comments please). 
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    Pramod Kumar Maheshwari > Bill Tonks January 7, 2020 3:24

    Risk of fire will not lessen with the introduction of battery operated vehicle.
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  Jeffrey Frommelt January 6, 2020 11:42

  Risk and closure planning will need international acceptability rather than Third world country standards.
  Environmental issues and local renewable energy harnessed.
  Social networks can expose negligence in hours to the detriment of share prices.
  Collaboration similar to aircraft industry crash investigation knowledge sharing.
  Online collaboration enhancement.
  Safety will become universal and collaborative across rand names.
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  Dick Myburgh January 6, 2020 11:25

  A reliable IS wireless backbone from the workface to the surface. Comprising of high powerd APs (static and mobile) that will facilitate accurate collection of data by means of IS smart phones, Tablets and condition monitoring wearables using BLE technology.  
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  Pramod Kumar Maheshwari January 4, 2020 3:57

  Mining will become more high tech and sucessful business model. But the mining project will become like a robot, devoid of human concern. More conflict will emerge with surrounding society. In my opinion, business is for the creation of wealth for society. But some how angle has been totally lost in the mad race for profit.
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  Paul Gann January 3, 2020 15:14

  High tech will be the dominant force leasing innovation in both the mining and mineral exploration industries. But there will need to be much more money invested in both these fields if these are to progress quickly and create a much more efficient processes for exploration and discovery of new but much deeper deposits of economic minerals. Most of this already exists but needs to be applied together to achieve the required results; eg: geophysices with remote sensing. these two would be a good start!
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  Harnam Trehin December 26, 2019 14:08

  In my opinion Controlled ventilation underground, ventilation on demand to improve the working environment and tremendous saving in operating cost.

   
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  Mark Webb August 13, 2019 18:23

  I am a little biased here but I think that the biggest change will be the increased penetration of robotics, specifically within the maintenance domain.  We have passed the digitization era (yes I know many operations are lagging - we have a large spectrum of implementation) of being able to collect data in real time to directly impact decision making; we already see autonomous vehicles (including tele-remote in this) trucks, drills, etc.; we have sites being remotely managed from thousands of kilometers away.  All this is happening today.  

  In the very near term we will be seeing significant changes within the maintenance world and if I think about what lies ahead (what these changes could enable).  Potentially, the redesign of equipment to, simplify the changeout of components that would enable robotic bays to complete repetitive work i.e. operating hour based PMs.  The potential impact for reducing downtime, improving compliance and eliminating safety risks are all goals worth striving for and reason I believe these changes are inevitable.

  These are just my thoughts.  What I do know is that regardless of which of these ideas, if any, come about; we are in for an exciting time ahead.
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  Mike Chaput July 29, 2019 20:39

  In my line of work, I see a lot of automation going on, as well as IoT implementation for self driving vehicles and unmanned mining equipment operation.  Not only does this mean there will be more computing and communications equipment being deployed across the site and down in the mine, this also means there is going to be the need to protect that equipment from the elements, and provide a stable, environmentally controlled solution that will maximize the life expectancy of that equipment, regardless of where it is needed.

   
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  Marlon Kalenda Tshimanga July 14, 2019 13:11

  The mining indristry"s will take the technology in high level and leading source of knowledge on exhobition and innovation