Clareo Managing Director, Satish Rao steps back to contrast recent developmental timelines and major strategic approaches between mining and the oil and gas industries. As he says in this article, published in the Global Mining Review September 2024 edition, “Business-as-usual approaches … threaten to derail the timelines for energy transition if miners are unable to emulate the recent success of oil and gas companies.”
He highlights some important lessons to be learned, and pitfalls to be avoided, as mining, and particularly copper mining, faces the challenge of the century – to produce 115% more than has been mined in all human history to date.