By
Osisoft
on Apr 27, 2021 4:06PM
Data mining pays off for actual mining as gold giant doubles down on digital transformation.
A cohort of Newcrest Mining engineers are pursuing postgraduate qualifications in data science after their interest was piqued by a transformative, data-driven process project that has dramatically boosted mine production and paid for itself in three months.
Leveraging a host of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to reinforce unpredictable and often-damaged physical sensors, the project was undertaken to reduce expensive downtime at a key process in the gold mine in Cadia, NSW – one of the Australia’s largest gold mines, 25km from Orange – involved in the processing of mined ore.