Digging Deeper into Sustainability - Key Disruptive Forces in Mining

Digging Deeper into Sustainability - Key Disruptive Forces in Mining

Summary

The mining sector is undergoing transformation through drivers such as enhanced safety, cost-cutting, enhanced productivity, and ESG goals. To achieve these objectives, the industry is adopting trends such as automation, alternate energy sources, connected mines, and workforce monitoring. Overall, the sector aims to improve sustainability, efficiency, and accountability while reducing risks and costs. GlobalData's FutureTech Series Report, ‘Digging deeper into sustainability: key disruptive forces in mining’, categorizes key innovation areas in mining as emerging, accelerating, and maturing based on their rate of growth in innovation. It casts light on the latest updates, deals, company filings, job analytics, noteworthy patents, and real-world innovations, as well as major geographies, top players, and recent developments in emerging innovation areas, such as autonomous rock drilling machines, zinc recovery, tunneling machines, hydraulic mining conveyors, tunnel ventilation system, mining inspection robot, location-sensitive alarms, underground mining tracking systems, and tunnel safety devices. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise in these innovation areas can transform business models, decision-making, and strategic thinking that directly influence research and development, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.

Key Highlights

Mining latest updates, deals, company filings, job analytics, noteworthy patents, real-world innovations, major drivers and trends, top tech themes, select innovation areas in mining and their leading patent filers, and the disruptive potential of nine innovation areas as highlighted by innovation drivers, recent developments, patent trends, and top players.

Scope

• Latest updates – recent updates in the mining sector
• Deals – select VC and M&A-focused listings related to mining
• Company filings – select filing extracts related to mining
• Job analytics – select hiring trends in mining
• Noteworthy patents – list of patents related to ESG and growth and productivity in mining
• Real-world innovations – overview and real-world innovation use cases related to mining
• Key disruptive forces in mining – presents the major drivers, trends, top tech themes, and emerging, accelerating, and maturing innovation areas with disruptive potential in mining.
• Emerging innovation areas – overview of select emerging innovation areas to capture their disruptive potential, innovation drivers, recent developments, patents trends, and top players.

• GlobalData’s FutureTech Series Reports are aimed at capturing futuristic technologies which have the potential to disrupt tomorrow. These technologies are constantly changing, adapting, and progressing to enable a paradigm shift in our daily lives. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise of these topics help transform business models and strategic thinking with an in-depth understanding of megatrends that can directly influence patenting, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.