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  • 5 - The Role of Transport-Related Innovation in the Mining Sector

  • Edited by Alica Daly, David Humphreys, University of Dundee, Julio Raffo, Giulia Valacchi
  • Book:
    Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries
    Published online:
    14 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022, pp 117-141
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    This chapter looks at transport innovation in the mining sector between 1990 and 2016. Shipping the mining output is an expensive and in most cases an unavoidable component of the mining process. The importance of transport, in the logistics chain of getting raw materials to final users/consumers, increases over time. This triggers the need to innovate in the transport sector, which leads to making mining locations that were more remote, accessible. This chapter uses patent data to explore transport innovations in mining, both within the mining area and outside, in the form of haulage to destination. It explores all relevant modes of transport for mining sector, namely road, rail, conveyers and maritime. Through patent citation analysis, the chapter shows that most innovation originates from the transport sector and is then adopted into the mining sector.