AI in Mining

GMG – CIM Future Mining Forum Edmonton,

October 2018

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“ AI is almost a definition of hype ”
- Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence 2018
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Temporally Recurrent Optimal Learning

Dr. Anders Sandberg ,

James Martin Research Fellow
Oxford University
Future of Humanity Institute

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 Temporally
Recurrent
Optimal Dr. Anders Sandberg ,

Learning
James Martin Research Fellow
Oxford University
Future of Humanity Institute

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What’s different this time around?

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Reliability Engineering
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Using AI to detect sensor drift

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Goldspot Machine Learning for Exploration

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Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles
‒ 20% increase in productivity

‒ 15% cheaper to operate.

‒ >75% less near-miss incidents.

‒ >50% fewer safety incidents

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Tomra AI assisted in-situ sorting
Tomra In-Situ sorting benefits

‒ 12% less mass needs to be moved

‒ Reduced energy consumption & GHG emissions

for grinding and transport

‒ Increased overall operations efficiency

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Ore fragmentation assessment using
machine learning AI – FRAGx
(5m wide by 5.5m high
block cave drawpoint) Lidar data for a block cave mine drawpoint

Drawpoint fines detection at a sublevel cave mine.

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PETRA AI based fragmentation analysis
‒ Until now, ore fragmentation assessment required an hour of
manual processing, off-site processing, and/or very high
lighting.

‒ FRAGx algorithms uses 3D mapping point cloud data to

automatically assess ore fragmentation in less than a minute.

‒ The algorithms have been trained to automatically remove

concrete floors and shotcrete from the assessment, and are
unaffected by dark, wet, dusty and humid underground mine
conditions.

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