R S C M I N I N G & M I N E R A L E X P L O R AT I O N
“ WE’RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT COMBINING OUR MACHINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH WITH BETTER WAYS TO DO DATA ANALYTICS IN A PUBLIC REPORTING SPACE. THAT’S WHERE OPAXE COMES IN” — René Sterk, Managing Director, RSC
216 coming up with novel ideas. One of the things we’ve developed is a resource intelligence product that’s become very popular. We’ve recently spun that off into a daughter company called
Sterk recently took on a Director role
Opaxe, providing mineral intelligence
at the Australian Institute of Minerals
to mining professionals and investors.
and Metallurgy (AusIMM) where he
The data analytics space is where the
hopes to contribute at board level for
industry is looking for new solutions
three years. Why is he so keen to give
with things like big data and machine
back to the community that has
learning. We’re very excited about
supported his business endeavours?
combining our machine learning
“We need to encourage the next
experience and research with better
generation to enter the mining industry,”
ways to do data analytics in a public
he argues. “It’s critical to build a strong
reporting space. That’s where Opaxe
industry and AusIMM allows profes-
comes in.” www.opaxe.com
sionals to come together to find ways
AUGUST 2019