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Challenge on: new mine design

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Amira Global Member Oz Minerals has invited fellow Members to join its latest Think & Act Differently challenge: Scalable and Adaptable Mining.

OZ Minerals and challenge partner, Inspire Resources, are seeking to identify solutions, technologies and systems that can contribute to the development of a scalable and adaptable approach to mining.  

OZ Minerals MD and CEO Andrew Cole, who launched the challenge at Austmine 2021 Conference and Exhibition in Perth last week, said that the challenge was investigating a new approach to mine design.

“OZ Minerals has an aspiration that our assets are scalable and adaptable,” Mr Cole said.

“We would like to explore solutions that are modular, scalable, and transferable to a mining context,” he said.

By employing such mining and processing methods, we believe we can unlock numerous benefits including: the potential to access new deposits, accelerating the development of our projects, lowering our impact, opening alternate ownership models and the ability to respond rapidly to volatility and uncertainty during the life of a project.”

The challenge is open until 22 Jul 2021.

Don’t miss out! Sydney breakfast event

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Amira Global is pleased to support the Robotics and Automation in Mining breakfast series.

The event in Sydney on 24 June wraps up a nationwide program of informative discussion.

Sydney’s speakers include:

  • Genene Kleppe, Founder and CEO, Digital Twinning Australia
  • Dr. Stefan Hrabar, CEO and Co-founder, Emesent
  • Andrew Rouse, Chief Technology Officer, PYBAR Mining Services
  • Adrian Beer, CEO, METS Ignited

Register here!

Oz Minerals – Hydrogen Hypothesis

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Amira Global member Oz Minerals embraces the power of collaboration through its Think & Act Differently (TAD) opportunity incubator.  The TAD process aims to uncover opportunities to apply technology in unique ways that result in new, low-impact ways to mine and process minerals.

For the latest challenge Oz Minerals is looking for ideas and hypotheses on how hydrogen could be used in mining to significantly reduce emissions.

The challenge runs until 28 May 2021 and OZ Minerals would like to extend an invitation to other Amira members to join the challenge and share their ideas.   Once the challenge closes selected teams will be invited to collaborate and develop ideas further.

You can find out more about the challenge by watching the introductory video below and on the Oz Minerals website.

Robotics & Automation in Mining – 2021 Breakfast Series

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Join us as the Robotics & Automation in Mining series hits the road across Australia (Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney) for four breakfast meetings to discuss the pressing issues and challenges facing the mining sector. Each breakfast will feature leading experts who will share their views on the future of the industry along with some of the newest technologies transforming the sector. Learn more and register for just $65

Speakers include

  • Dr Stefan Hrabar | CEO and Co-founder Emesent (Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney)
  • Ben Groeneveld | Product Manager – Mining Data Management Deswik (Brisbane)
  • Andrew Scott | Principal Innovator Symbiotic Innovations (Brisbane)
  • Stephen Rowles | Product Manager – Survey Deswisk (Perth)
  • Peter Evans | Director MineLiDAR (Perth)
  • Jordan Herrmann | Technical Sales Specialist Maptek (Adelaide)

#AmiraGlobal #RAM #Robotics #Automation #Mining #ROAR

Changing the future of mining

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Amira Global member Oz Minerals is embracing the power of collaboration through its newly launched Think & Act Differently (TAD) opportunity incubator.  The TAD process aims to uncover opportunities to apply technology in unique ways that result in new, low-impact ways to mine and process minerals.

OZ Minerals Transformation Technologist Brett Triffett said that a major aspiration of the company is to produce products with the smallest environmental footprint possible and provide value to stakeholders.  With this in mind the first TAD incubator challenge, Ingenious Extraction was launched on February 16 and aims to discover new ways to extract metals like copper, gold, silver and cobalt from concentrates. 

The challenge runs for 8 weeks until April 9 and OZ Minerals would like to extend an invitation to other Amira members to join the challenge and share their ideas.   Once the challenge closes selected teams will be invited to collaborate and develop ideas further.

You can find out more about the challenge by watching the introductory video below and on the Oz Minerals website.

Tailings Call: Emerging interdisciplinary expectation

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Amira is currently working with the Amira Tailings Collaboration, who together are accountable for 35% of the world’s planned tailings for 2025, to shape collaborative and individual priorities for further assessment of emerging R&D+I2 submissions (see here for submissions portal).

The intensive workshops with these operator members across three core challenge themes:

  1. Avoiding catastrophic failure
  2. Step change in volume through repurposing
  3. Step change in volume through the tailing creation processes across the mine value chain  

Amira’s focus is on the key breakthroughs required to unlock and deliver the step changes.  This means respecting and aligning with the good work already in progress around the world.  To this, Amira and ICMM meet quarterly to ensure alignment of works in progress to the benefit of our industry and the communities within which our members operate.  

The Amira Tailings Collaboration provides deep industry knowledge and leadership to drill down into the three core themes to better articulate the breakthrough expectations required to invoke the step changes the group is expecting.  This leadership group is also collaborating to identify their corporate and collaborative priorities, including exploring industry wide efforts necessary to enable significant reduction in tailings volumes.  It is a privilege to witness the degree of frank collaboration (within the bounds of anti-trust policies) and the alignment as well as the variability in considerations, approaches, and priorities. 

One of the emerging considerations is the degree of interdisciplinary collaboration required to address some of the challenges.  In addition, the leadership group is noting the importance of developing transdisciplinary expertise to ensure deployment and delivery to translate these integrated approaches creating the R&D+I2 outcomes back into industry. 

The collaboration is operating under a multiparty NDA available to Amira’s Operator Members.  This group is driving the development of the Amira tailings R&D+I2 breakthrough roadmap with a direct and deliberate intention of creating step change in their tailings volumes within the medium to long term.  If your organisation is interested in being part of this Tailings leadership group, please contact Sara Sulway, GM Member Engagement.

The Amira tailings R&D+I2 breakthrough roadmap cuts across technologies readiness levels.  Amira’s supplier members are encouraged to submit their technological breakthrough ideas here for showcasing to Amira’s members at the April R&D Forum.