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Artificial intelligence in geology

IT, Mining
12.09.2026 31
Canadian gold exploration company Headwater Gold has hired Geomorphic AI to organize its archives and accelerate the search for prospective…
IT, Oil and gas
29.08.2026 100
The MethaneGuard AI system can not only detect a methane leak in a gas pipeline but also assess its severity—from…
IT
20.08.2026 252
Taiwan is preparing to share the benefits of the technology boom directly with its population. President William Lai has announced…
IT, Mining
14.08.2026 161
The Udokan Copper operation in Russia's Transbaikal Territory has reported record production figures, mining 19 million tonnes of ore over…
IT, Mining
13.08.2026 152
Australian mining analytics company MaxMine has introduced MAXI, a virtual assistant designed to take open-pit fleet management to the next…
Geology, IT
13.08.2026 143
Safety at sea in the Arctic is becoming less dependent on the vigilance of observers on a ship's bridge. Scientists…
Geology, IT
11.08.2026 141
Artificial intelligence is coming for offices, not factories. A new study by Anthropic has identified a clear pattern: the more…
Geology, IT
09.08.2026 151
China has successfully launched two next-generation hyperspectral satellites capable of identifying minerals and analyzing geological data directly in space. Lifted…
IT
06.08.2026 187
Russia's leading gold and diamond producers are embracing technologies that, until recently, were associated primarily with the world's largest tech…
IT
05.08.2026 146
The Solntsevsky coal mine on Russia's Sakhalin Island has introduced a digital dispatch assistant that acts as a virtual foreman…
IT
20.07.2026 182
The greatest threat posed by artificial intelligence may not be autonomous machines, but empty government coffers. In a Bloomberg opinion…
IT
09.07.2026 332
Caterpillar has taken another step toward the fully digital mine by acquiring technology company Skycatch, whose drone-based artificial intelligence platform…
IT
06.07.2026 209
Russia's largest industrial companies have shared real-world examples of artificial intelligence implementation in production. Yandex B2B Tech has brought together…
Career, IT
03.07.2026 246
Artificial intelligence has arrived at mines and industrial facilities—not to replace workers on the job, but to recruit them. A…
Geology, IT
01.07.2026 221
To mark the second anniversary of GeoConversation: Salt of the Earth, we are launching the English-language version of our website.…
IT
29.06.2026 466
Three technology leaders have joined forces to create a virtual model of the Earth's subsurface. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…
IT
26.06.2026 224
The mining and oil & gas industries are entering a new era. Instead of relying solely on the size of…
IT
22.06.2026 207
A breakthrough by American researchers has provided an unprecedented look inside the workings of artificial intelligence. It turns out that…
IT
17.06.2026 434
Brazilian mining giant Vale has transformed a conventional ore processing facility into a fully automated operation powered by artificial intelligence.…
IT
08.06.2026 371
Engineers at Anthropic are producing eight times more code in 2026 than they did between 2021 and 2025. The reason…

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