Authors: M. Cehlar, S.A. Zhironkin, O.V. Zhironkina

Title of the article: Horizons of convergent development of open pit geotechnol-ogy in the 21st century: world experience

Year: 2019, Issue: 3, Pages: 94-102

Branch of knowledge: 25.00.22 Geotechnology (underground, open and construction)s

Index UDK: 622.235

DOI: 10.26730/1999-4125-2019-3-94-102

Abstract: Currently, the development of the mining sector of the mineral resource complex around the world is constrained by its lower labor productivity compared to the industries of deep processing of raw materials. Despite the dynamic innovative development of the mechanization of open pit mining and the production of high-performance equipment, geotechnology, both open pit and underground, remains quite conservative. As a result, in resource-rich countries, mining ceases to determine the technological level of industrial development, deprivation takes place in mining areas, and the work of miners is gradually marginalized. The answer to the challenges facing the mining industry is the convergent development of geotechnology, based on deep integration with information, cognitive, bio- and nanotechnologies, which radically transform the traditional methods of mining. The world is gradually gaining experience in automating technological processes of open pit mining based on artificial intelligence, cloud computing and on-line planning, unmanned drilling, excavation and transportation of rock mass, which already today demonstrate a significant increase in productivity and labor safety. Given Russia's unique mineral wealth, the international experience of convergent development of open pit geotechnology considered in this article is designed to help strengthen the national mineral resource complex in the global resource market.

Key words: open pit geotechnology technological convergence productivity digitalization world experience

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