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A typical electric car requires six times the mineral input of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more  amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation       


 of the world’s current supply comes from the Democratic Republic        secure its future supplies by signing a multi-year cobalt sourcing   mines in Zambia announced plans to resume extracting cobalt from    the copper ores but it could not be processed because the cobalt    


So to increase our renewable energy


supply we need to do much more mining – which emits large quantities of CO2. It seems a vicious circle. To break out of it, mining needs to move to electric power, and sustainable, zero-carbon electric power at that. In all industries, electrification and digitilisation go hand-in-hand. We reported in our December 2021 issue on mine equipment giant ABB’s Ability e-mine, a portfolio of solutions to accelerate the move towards zero-carbon mining. Since then, in February this year (2022), ABB has released a new version of its ABB Ability Performance Optimization system for hoists. It is intended to meet the need for increased digitalisation in the mining industry. The aim is for better operational analysis and insights: effective monitoring of hoist performance increases their efficiency and decreases their


P Konecranes offers training in mine crane use.


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  and Panasonic are increasingly reducing the cobalt in their battery        graphic illustration of the impact of electric vehicles on mining came     


R Credit: Betteman Ladebox, Jakob Härter


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