A sensor-driven AI system based on Microsoft’s Azure cloud is helping Newcrest Mining manage crushed ore bin levels at Cadia Valley gold mine in NSW. The ASX-listed resources company, which is ...

A crude ore bin is just what its name implies. Miners dumped ore fresh from the inside of the mountain into ore cars and unloaded the cars into the top of an ore bin building. Like grain in a silo, ...

"The hard sensors in our crushed ore bins were failing at a rate of two or three times every month per crusher, and it often took hours to get the process up and running again," he said.