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Sector Analysis
India's Mining Fiscal Landscape Regulations, Governance and Sustainability (2025 Update)
GlobalData's "India's Mining Fiscal Landscape Regulations Governance and Sustainability (2025)" provides a comprehensive coverage on India's mining fiscal regime. The report provides country's overview with macroeconomic performance, corruption index and mineral overview. It also provides a comprehensive coverage on the country’s mining regulatory bodies, laws, rights, and obligations, as well as current and future tax-related proposals. India is endowed with vast mineral deposits, including coal, iron ore, bauxite, manganese, copper, lead, zinc and limestone. The country’s mining industry is governed...
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Thematic Analysis
Artificial Intelligence in Mining: Strategic Intelligence
Report Value Proposition – Why This Matters for You Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a critical technology across the mining value chain, helping companies improve productivity, enhance safety, reduce operational costs, and accelerate mineral discovery. As mining companies continue investing heavily in AI initiatives, adoption is expected to expand significantly over the coming years. GlobalData estimates that the global AI market will grow from $131.3 billion in 2024 to $641.8 billion by 2029, while mining industry spending on AI is...
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Sector Analysis
Canada's Mining Fiscal Landscape Regulations, Governance and Sustainability (2025 Update)
GlobalData's "Canada's Mining Fiscal Landscape: Regulations, Governance and Sustainability (2025 Update)" provides a comprehensive coverage on Canada's mining fiscal regime. The report provides country's overview with macroeconomic performance, corruption index and mineral overview. It also provides a comprehensive coverage on the country’s mining regulatory bodies, laws, rights, and obligations, as well as current and future tax-related proposals. Canada is one of the largest mineral producers globally, producing more than 60 metals and minerals and is among the leading producers of...
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Thematic Analysis
Safety Trends in Mining 2025
GlobalData's " Safety Trends in Mining, 2025" provides a comprehensive coverage on the performance indicators of global mining industry. It provides historical and forecast data on fatalities, total recordable injury frequency rate, and lost-time injury frequency rate by company. The report also includes trends in investing in safety-related technology. The average number of fatalities among the 54 miners studied in 2024 decreased to 3.1 from 4.3 in 2023. The decrease in fatality rates in 2024 was primarily due to decreased...
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Analyst Opinions
Industrial Robots: Trends and Innovations
Industrial Robots move from automation to autonomy Industrial robotics is entering a new phase of transformation as intelligent, mobile, and humanoid systems reshape automation across sectors. Evolving beyond traditional caged robots, next-generation platforms integrate AI, computer vision, digital twins, and advanced actuation to enable adaptive, flexible, and connected operations. Automotive, electronics, and aerospace remain core adopters, while healthcare, construction, and logistics are emerging growth frontiers. Companies such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla are piloting humanoids for assembly and logistics, ABB,...
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Thematic Analysis
Mine-Site Technology Adoption Survey, 2025
GlobalData’s latest mine-site technology adoption survey shows over 60% of mines surveyed have now made either significant investments in, or fully implemented, mine planning and scheduling software or mine communication systems. The highest penetration of these technologies was in Canada, whilst safety technologies such as collision avoidance are also used widely, particularly in South Africa. Over the next two years a high share of mines expect to invest in predictive maintenance for plant and mobile equipment, while drones and software...
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Thematic Analysis
FDI Trends in Europe (2025)
Europe experienced a robust growth phase characterized by increased project numbers and capital expenditures from 2023 to 2024, . Europe's share in opened Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects, dominated by Western Europe, rose to 40% in 2024. Despite visible FDI opportunity, Eurozone GDP growth stunted at 0.9% in 2024, with structural issues like low productivity, rapidly increasing bond yields, and energy costs weighing on industrial competitiveness Despite healthy levels of inward Greenfield FDI recorded in 2024, Europe’s FDI climate is facing the...
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Analyst Opinions
Decarbonizing the Steel Industry: Assessing Trends, Technologies, Challenges and Case Studies
The steel industry is responsible for approximately 8% of global COâ‚‚ emissions and is considered a hard-to-abate industry due to its reliance on coal to meet energy and feedstock demands in primary production. In addition, according to the World Economic Forum, steel demand is projected to rise 30% by 2050 and will be bolstered by the roll-out of energy transition technologies such as wind power. As a result, decarbonizing the steel industry has become crucial for achieving net-zero goals. This...
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Analyst Opinions
Decarbonizing the Mining Industry: Assessing Trends, Technologies, Challenges and Case Studies
Due to the significant volume of emissions from the mining sector, growing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) concerns, and the rising demand for essential raw materials required for the energy transition, decarbonizing mining has become crucial for global climate mitigation and achieving net-zero goals. This report assesses the suitability of energy transition technologies such as electrification, alternative fuels, renewable energy, hydrogen, and CCUS, all of which hold significant decarbonization potential for mining. Additionally, this report also presents an overview of...
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Thematic Analysis
Development of Autonomous Trucks in the Global Mining Sector, 2025
Autonomous haul trucks continue to gain traction in surface mining as operators push for higher productivity, fewer safety incidents, and leaner operating costs. Mines are also benefiting from longer machine and tyre life, along with notable reductions in fuel consumption making autonomy a compelling long-term investment. As of July 2025, GlobalData’s Mining Intelligence Center is tracking 3,832 autonomous haul trucks deployed at surface mines worldwide. This number reflects both fully autonomous units and autonomy-ready fleets currently operating in assisted modes....
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