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Concentrated Mine: Picture a mine that precisely targets the 5% of Waterless Mine: Picture a mine extracting precious resources without the
mineral or metal, without processing the 95% of waste rock to get to it – need for fresh water
with all its associated costs, and energy and water usage

Modern Mine: Picture a hard-rock mine where the targeted ore is Intelligent Mine: Picture a mine where data science and machine
extracted safely and efficiently without the need for explosive blasting – learning combine to create a truly smart mine, transforming vast
removing people safely out of harm’s way quantities of data into predictive intelligence (from sensor to boardroom)
CHANGING

THE MINING GAME

Donovan Waller, group head of technology development at Anglo American,

answers questions about the company’s FutureSmart Mining™ approach
W hat disruption is the ore safely (particularly in deep-level hard-rock need to be precise in what and how we mine.

mining industry facing
Technology is shaping the journey to extracting
mining) and getting it to market.
We are moving 16 times more material, using
and stewarding only what we need.
globally?
16 times as much energy and double the water to
This is why we’ve developed FutureSmart
Mining faces myriad
Mining™, our innovation-led approach to
extract the same copper equivalent value as we
challenges, from
diminishing ore grades
This approach is not just about technology or
unsustainable path.
and availability of water did more than 100 years ago. This is clearly an sustainable mining.
and energy, to the increasing cost of extracting As stewards of the Earth’s natural resources, we the financial balance sheet; it’s also about a
54 ANGLO AMERICAN 25 REASONS TO BELIEVE