This is article three in a series of six published in Mining Magazine.
In our second article, "The Rock Factory", we introduced a new operating vision for the future of large-scale capital projects, specifically those in the natural resources industry. This third article describes another of our operating visions, which we call The Living Mine, a technological ecosystem where mechanical, biological and human agents intelligently work together to create a previously impossibly balanced operating system and take advantage of certain technology and innovations clusters, specifically:
- Nano-robotics
- Artificial intelligence and learning
- Advanced materials
- Bio-mining and genomics
- Advanced autonomous robotics
- Integration of people and technology
- Self-sustainability technologies
This article was first published in Mining Magazine. Authors: George Hemingway and Jeff Loehr, The Stratalis Group.