Data Analytics Applied to the Mining Industry

"The book describes the key challenges facing the mining sector as it transforms into a digital industry able to fully exploit process automation, remote operation centres, autonomous equipment and the opportunities offered by the industrial internet of things. It provides guidelines on how data needs to be collected, stored and managed to enable the different advanced data analytics methods to be applied effectively in practice, through use of case studies and worked examples. Each chapter ends with a section detailing lessons for mining. The final chapter explores the revised operating principles, the organizational characteristics and the new skills needed by mining companies"--