Gigabit Magazine – August 2019

just one mine at the time. Our move

towards the cloud gave us the opportu-

nity to move around our technology

for various projects, such as predictive

analytics or general artificial intelli-

gence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

type projects.” With mining often

considered as one of the slower

industries to adopt new technology,

it wasn’t until 2013 when SSR Mining

really put its foot down towards

digitalisation. “Back then, we had no

tech. We had an email system and

that’s pretty much it. But, one thing

we saw back then was the fact that we

could seize the opportunity to move

into the cloud. When we acquired our

second mine operation, Marigold, we

were positioned to start moving that

operation’s IT into the cloud straight

away. During the acquisition, we began

to transition from the previous owners’

technology to the cloud. As Amazon

and Azure introduced new things, we

were able to take advantage of some

of those new tools and features in our

other operation too.”

Looking back to how operations

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AUGUST 2019

SSR MINING INC.