ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MINING INDUSTRY

Abstract

The mining industry has changed significantly in recent decades with using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) methods and technologies. Expert systems are helping in optimizing processes, increasing the safety. They used to improve productivity and also reduce operating costs. Since the industry’s operations have the potential to impact a wide range of environmental and socioeconomic entities. These are achieving by committing to improve environmental performance and addressing the needs of stakeholders and community groups from the outset. Mines can put the concept of sustainable development into practice. Multiple recommendations were made to improve planning, environmental management, cleaner technology implementation, increased stakeholder involvement, formation of partnerships. Finally, case studies of Sukari Gold Mine and CEMEX a multinational cement company (in Egypt is named Suez Cement Company), was presented to illustrate further how mining companies can operationalize sustainable development. This present paper has attempted to bridge a major gap in the artificial intelligence, sustainable development and mining literature by clarifying exactly how sustainable development can be applied in the corporate mining context.