Since global demand for minerals and metals only intensity, mining companies turn to A-Powred solutions to increase the accuracy of the survey, automate the equipment, predict maintenance needs, to increase safety and optimize energy consumption. By 2030, the meeting with net zeros is expected to require approximately 700,000 new staff in critical minerals, which is 88% increase from 2022.1 This is one area where AI comes –82% The leaders say they are sure that they are digital work to expand the capacity of the workforce in the next 12 to 18 months.2
Since the mining industry is subject to its digital and artificial transformation, Microsoft is still determined to provide innovative and secure solutions. Since the adoption of AI and agents to streamline business processes and unlocking efficiency after moving the older system to the cloud, we have worked together for a strong and sustainable future mining.
AI transformation for a more durable future of mining
As we see across the energy and resources industry, the mining sector faces increasing pressure to support the global energy transition, and AI appears as a prominent solution. With the demand for critical minerals, it is expected to be four times the year of four times3AI can help mining companies locate and extract resources more efficiently, and studies show potential discounts of 20% to 30% at time and cost of discovering minerals.4
Since the early stage survey to the processing and logistics of Downnstream, AI has the potential to be built into the mining value chain. In upstream operations can improve mapping of the prospect of mineral, estimation of resources and production planning. Downnstream can optimize ore mixing, recovery and processing. Even side currents, such as the logistics of the supplier chain, begin to see profits because the efficiency of the A-sink in the ripple across surgery. And when exploring AI, it unlocks the knowledge of huge geocus data seedlings and faster and more accurate decision-making in real time.
The possibility to use Casses in the mining sector is abundant and there are ways of starting an organization inserting on a digital transformation day today – such as labor productivity. In this context, AI is a powerful step towards the future of work and Ma’aden, a mining society in Savi Arabia, is an example. Ma’aden used Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Azure Open Service to help employees be more productive in daily tasks, such as getting quick responses, content summary, and designing presentations, embles and seating minutes. Ma’aden has seen increased productivity, with Copilot users saving up to 2,200 hours per month.
In addition to workingforce productivity, Microsoft AI also enables operational transformation, as seen in Sandvik’s approach to optimizing devices. Sandvik has created a cloud solution based on a service solution that uses data and AI to generate knowledge of its machines to support the operation of the device’s operation. Dusing Microsoft Azure Cloud and its Ai -Solutions and Services, the solution uses data to create special information on the performance and status of the device – helping to manage transformation in its business.
Basics for transformation and alert in mining
Unlocking the potential: bringing the cloud into mining operations
Since the mining industry increases the objectives of efficiency, safety and sustainability, the adaptive cloud has appeared as a critical piece of this way. Microsoft’s adaptive cloud approach uses cloud and AI technologies across hybrid, multi-cloud, Edge and the Internet of Things (IoT) around. By unlocking real -time mining organizations, creating operating technologies (OT) that can unlock, streamline operations and increase resistance. This connection of cloud and OT supports intelligent decision -making and predictive maintenance and Lyys basis for innovation and scabibility.
Boliden offers an example of how cloud infrastructure can modernize mining operations on a scale. The Swedish mining company needed to automate and centralize data collection, increase visibility across processes, and add new ways of information analysis. Boliden monitors the Garpenberg website by 500 cameras that provide managerial teams supervision of mines, wells and operations, helping to monitor productivity and security. The company now uses a combination of Microsoft Azure IoT Edge and Microsoft Azure IoT Hub to connect cameras to other boliden systems and the rest of its IoT network, which consists of thousands of sensors over and underground, along with other devices. Companies can now cooperate with a flexible, fully recommended cloud infrastructure to bring more productivity and safety on all of its sites.
Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) also illustrates how adaptive cloud infrastructure can overcome the limitation of traditional on-primises around scalable support, intelligent operations. The ego deployed a hybrid environment that attached private cloud services via data centers on-premis. The deployment of a hybrid environment has helped optimize latency, advanced AI solutions and automation, offer sustainable commercial savings by intelligence on the edge, and streamline processing for massive amants deducting in real -time from sensors, machines and production lines.
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1 Tracking Trends 2025 | Deloitte us, Deloitte 2025
2 2025: Year of birth of FRONTIER FIRM, Microsoft, April 2025
3 Energy transition will need critical minerals and metals. Here’s how to benefit responsibly, the World Economic Forum, June 2024
4 Now it is time to invest in sustainable mining technologies. Here is the reason, the world economic forum, September 2024
Mr. Starwood serves as the head of the worldwide mining industry in Microsoft. It cooperates with mining customers to align business capacity with business strategies for transforming business models and operating processes and implementation of the value of technological investment and assets. He is a thought leader in the digital sustainable mine of the future and his work uses digital twins, AI, industrial metavers, edge computing and more.
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