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Report explores the technology investment priorities in mining in Asia-Pacific 2016

 

Date | Nov 14, 2016:

The greatest increases in penetration over the last two years have been in real-time video training and environmental monitoring technologies.

 

UAVs/drones currently have the lowest penetration of the technologies examined with only 17% of mines having invested to date however a significant increase is expected over the next two years.

 

The commodity sector expected to have the greatest increase in technology penetration over the next 2 years is the precious metals sector whilst india offers the best opportunities for vendors as does the largest company segment with revenues greater than US$10 billion.

 

Surpac is by far the most used software nominated by 29% of the mines. This was followed by Minex with 15% and MineScape with 10%.

 

This report provides a detailed analysis of investment intentions across different areas of technology in the Asia-pacific industry. The analysis is based upon Publisher's survey of over 110 mine general maintenance and procurement managers including other mine-site and corporate decision-makers.
The focus is on what technologies mines currently have and in which technologies they are planning to invest over the next two years.

 

 

(Source: https://www.whatech.com/)