Session 3B

The natural resources sector is enjoying the benefits of innovation on many fronts, which in turn helps make operations more sustainable. With the assistance of business incubators and early-stage finding programmes many new ideas are finding their way from universities to implementation, through companies such as:

• Plotlogic: AI technology that locates and defines material properties of every rock in a mining operation.
• Destiny Copper: A pioneering hydrometallurgical process not reliant on electricity to produce copper
• Dundee Sustainable Technologies: Proprietary metallurgical processes for the treatment of material