We pushed further, trying to understand how a technical analysis could decide a matter with such high stakes. On the one hand, we posed to Duarte, gold’s price has skyrocketed from less than $300 an ounce a decade ago to more than $1,500 an ounce today, increasing the temptation in a nation of deep poverty to consider mining. We quoted former Salvadoran finance minister and Pacific Rim economic adviser Manuel Hinds, who said, “Renouncing gold mining would be unjustifiable and globally unprecedented.” On the other hand, we quoted the head of the human rights group and Roundtable member FESPAD, Maria Silvia Guillen: “El Salvador is a small beach with a big river that runs through it. If the river dies, the entire country dies.”
rapidbizapps on 02 Mar 18As digitization takes center stage in the mining industry, the nature of work and the employment landscape are poised to change dramatically over the coming years. The digital mine envisions that the core operational processes of the future mining value chain will be highly automated, thereby reducing labor intensity and reshaping the demographics of workforces, at both the mine site and in the back office. The sector will need to rethink how it attracts and retains talent to keep pace with the ongoing digital revolution that has the potential to make mining operations safer and more efficient than ever before. In this post, we look at the implications of digitization on the mining workforce.
