Modern Mining August 2019

a digital assessment across all our business units. We said to the mines, ‘We’re not going to tell you what to do, we’re going to tell you how mining is evolv- ing and what digitalisation can do, and we want your input. We had an incredible response with nearly 600

suggestions or proposals being submitted.” He notes that it became very clear from this exercise that Exxaro needed a clear understand- ing of what infrastructure was available within the group. “So we did an infrastructure analysis across

The Belfast mine, now at an advanced stage of construction, has been designed from the ground up as a fully digital operation.

The scene at the latest ‘Digital@Exxaro Show & Tell’. Teams from all Exxaro’s mines presented at the event (photo: Arthur Tassell).

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