Mines stand to gain a lot from automation, and the industry is waking up to the benefits. But what helps one area can hurt another, and mining automation could ave drastic geopolitical consequences.

The global automated mining equipment market size was US$ 10.1 billion in 2021. The global automated mining equipment market is forecast to grow to US$ 102.2 billion by 2030 by growing at a compound ...

Driverless trucks. Conductorless trains. Mines run by cell phone networks. Autonomous technologies such as these are taking miners out of mines, driving efficiency, and changing the way the mining ...