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Ask HN: innovation in the gold mining industry
Hi all,
as part of an industry analysis,
I was wondering if any of you knew of any innovation in the gold mining industry,
things like:
more efficient extractive methods
new techniques to hedge gold futures
community initiatives
lessening the impact of environmental damage
- kevin_rubyhouse 14y agoI don't know anything about the gold mining industry. If you have found good/dense information about it, could you point me to where you found it? I'm sort of interested now. :)
- Maven911 14y agoHi, Well I am collecting links as part of my industry analysis, and this is what I have bookmarked as worthwhile: http://www.minalliance.ca/pdfs/Minalliance_100_innovations_en.pdf http://www.minalliance.ca/pdfs/Minalliance_100_innovations_e... http://www.saimm.co.za/Journal/v081n07p212.pdf http://www.saimm.co.za/Journal/v081n07p212.pdf http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/12/12/gold-miners-can-do-much-better-than-price-of-gold/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/12/12/gol...
- defrost 14y agoThere's a fair few, it's on going; Laser scanning ore sizing systems to infer size distributions of reclaim "over ore" on high speed conveyors to optimise SAG Mills (these operate 24/7 @ roughly $36,000.00 per hour in super sized mines). Better targeted exploration techniques; eg: Holden / Kovesi / Dentith - "Using fancy wavelets on aeromag data to find teh colour" (obligatory deadwood reference). GPS enabled fleet management to optimise usage & maintenance & avoid million dollar tyre fires on the big tonka toys. Robot fleets with either autonomous or remote drivers. They'll be plenty of discussion, boozing, whoring & two-upping over these very issues @ Diggers & Dealers 2013 I'd guess. http://www.diggersndealers.com.au/ http://www.diggersndealers.com.au/