Answer to Question #197810 in English for MARIAMATU FRIMPONG

Question

identify three main technological innovations and discuss their effects on the impact of small scale mining

Answer 1

a) Electricity

Since early discoveries like Benjamin Franklin studied it and inventors like Nikola Tesla tested ways to turn it into power.

Electricity has not only been fueling generation of new innovation.

b) The laser

Scientists were not even certain where exactly they could be applied. They then started being used from medicine to consumer electronics to manufacturing.

c) The elevator

The elevator unleashed a new wave of architecture and the age of the skyscraper.

A new inventor, the MULTI, the first elevator designed to move horizontally as well as vertically, similarly poised to open new paths to urban planning and build design

EFFECTS

Integrating technological innovation into its practices can result in reduced cost, increased production and improved workers safety for the mining sector.

The technological innovation helps the company to become the most automated mining operation in the world.

Increased social and environmental concerns among communities and authorities

Technological progress has also been crucial to allow the exploitation of new deposits in more complex scenarios, lower ore grades, deep deposits, harder rock mass and high stress environment.