Mining 4.0

1. Natural language processing

2. Business model transparency - addressing the middlemen menace

3. Artificial Intelligence

4. Cognitive computing

4.1. Speech recognition and vision

4.2. Signal processing

5. Investment

5.1. Transactional integrity - blockchain

5.2. Supply and demand chain

5.3. Smart networking

6. Internet of Things

6.1. Communication systems

6.2. Ruggedised sensors

7. Automation & robotics

7.1. Labour market disruption

7.2. New jobs, new skills

7.3. Training

7.4. Predictive maintenance

7.5. Autonomous vehicles

8. Database creation - GIS, remote sensing

9. Edge computing

10. Storage security

11. Smart factories/processing

12. Digitalisation

12.1. Digital land records

12.2. Online cadastre

12.3. Online licensing portal

12.4. Crowdsourcing - wisdom of the crowd

13. Smart mining

13.1. Productivity

13.2. Efficiency

13.3. Environment, health and safety

14. Cloud computing