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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/06/connected-safe-intelligent-mining-in-the-modern-age/ by Zou Zhilei 26/6/23 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/06/connected-safe-intelligent-mining-in-the-modern-age/ by Zou Zhilei 26/6/23 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
The days of mines as dirty and dangerous workplaces are ending. Digital technologies are empowering the mining industry to become cleaner and safer for workers. Technological change chimes in with a transition in the underlying logic of mining. Formerly, the major way to increase mining output was to add sites and staff. In light of price volatility, shortages in talent and other hurdles, the industry is now transitioning from this method to one of intensifying the use of existing sites instead. | The days of mines as dirty and dangerous workplaces are ending. Digital technologies are empowering the mining industry to become cleaner and safer for workers. Technological change chimes in with a transition in the underlying logic of mining. Formerly, the major way to increase mining output was to add sites and staff. In light of price volatility, shortages in talent and other hurdles, the industry is now transitioning from this method to one of intensifying the use of existing sites instead. | ||
=====Deep Sea Mining Negotiations Resume Amid Industry Pushback and Environmental Alarm===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17072025/deep-sea-mining-negotiations-resume-amid-industry-pushback/ by Teresa Tomassoni 17/7/25 Inside Climate News] | |||
The three-week summit is dedicated to finalizing a long-debated set of rules known as the Mining Code that would govern how, when and where companies could extract cobalt, nickel and manganese from the ocean floor. These metals are often found in potato sized rock-like mineral deposits called polymetallic nodules. But progress towards adopting the code remains uncertain as critics raise mounting concerns about the harm the industry would cause to marine life. | |||
