Application of digital twin technologies in mining industrial branch

Abstract

Digital Twin technology became one of most popular and modern information technologies and at the same time operation technologies in the roadmap of increasing effectiveness and performance of industrial enterprise. This is already solid trend in many different scaled industrial facilities which belong to different industrial branches. This paper has objective to present how digital twin technology can help in optimization and effectiveness increase for mining industry. We will try to review the whole process and show advantages of digital twin technology implementation in dedicated sector or stage of mining and mineral beneficiation processes such as mine planning, mine operations, rom processing, ore processing, concentrate stockpiles managing, concentrate transportation and concentrate processing facilities such as refineries or smelting plants.