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The long, dark road to supply Nirvana

This week I attended Aspermont’s Future of Mining Conference in Sydney. Smartly, the conveners of this event held a stream for a whole day on mining equipment, technology and services investment and the start-up tech developers in this area.

Peter Johnston
The reason why not a lot of new technology is applied in mining is that mining companies make it generally very difficult for anyone to do exactly that says Maptek MD Peter Jonnston

The reason why not a lot of new technology is applied in mining is that mining companies make it generally very difficult for anyone to do exactly that says Maptek MD Peter Jonnston

I spent most of Tuesday in this stream - listening. A group of very talented, very experienced and very determined people in the room, from Australia and elsewhere, were solving some very valuable problems...

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