Digitization of the mining industry. concept and modern geotechnology

The current state of digitalization in the mining industry is reflected in international and regional regulations of all technically developed countries. In 2015, in the Russian Federation it was planned to create the first industrial consortium to develop the concept of “smart quarry”. The general initiator of the project was the VIST Group, as well as a number of mining companies in Russia and Kazakhstan. Belarus’s partner is BELAZ, which successfully tested the first unmanned heavy dump truck in history. In the “Smart Quarry” project, an important technological direction is 3D modeling in resource extraction. Here is an interesting example of the Russian company Vizerra, which creates a virtual reality model of a career and an automated control system for mountain transport complexes based on the GLONASS satellite navigation technology and a robotized process control system for openpit mining. The concept of a “smart” (intellectual) career is also widely developed in other countries where the mining industry has a high value (Australia, Canada, Chile). The Smart Career project was included in the list of AutoNet pilot projects of the National Technology Initiative. In the Republic of Kazakhstan, by the example of processing waste from the Zhezkazgan copper-smelting production, a new geotechnology is being created that assumes one hundred percent digitization of these processes. The combination of the results of experimental studies and implemented developments allows us to predict the successful implementation of digitalization processes in the mining and industrial sector of Kazakhstan. This paper reflects the following features of the digitalization of new geotechnologies developed in the Republic of Kazakhstan. © National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2019.