Where the Next Great Advances in Mining Will Come From

Advanced materials will bring about steady changes and improvements much like dynamite did, but nothing will have the explosive effect of transforming the mining today industry like the latest advance in air transport technology to open up new remote mines worldwide. When added together, new mines that have required the construction of lengthy roads, railways, power stations, airports and linkages to the outside world doubled the costs of building the mines/mill/smelters alone. This pushed the ROI out beyond a decade and made many operations marginal. Today, a new air vehicle has been developed, flown and certified that will radically reduce the costs of new remote mine development. Combining the attributes of an aircraft, helicopter, dirigible and hovercraft, the Hybrid Air Vehicle can deliver a payload of 20-200 tons over thousands of miles, into remote locations, requires no airport for depositing its cargo, operates on a fraction of the fuel and costs, no environmental impact and ultimately delivers new projects at substantially less cost, greater profit and shorter construction time. This will dramatically transform the industry caught in remote locations around the world from Northern Canada, the American West, the Middle East, Central Africa, the Andes chain in South America and internal Asia. The "Game Changer" has arrived. Just as STOL aircraft once opened up Northern Canada to its minerals, so too the Hybrid Air Vehicle will radically lower costs to deliver new metals into the global markets, turning around the end of the present boom cycle into a rapid transformation to revive the industry, and create many opportunities for lower cost metals to continue building the global economy. http://www.hybridairvehicles.com Robert S. Stewart, Interop AG, http://www.interopag.com
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