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• Rinehart's Roy Hill mine digs deep into the data

  ​Relatively speaking, the neighbourhood around the Roy Hill mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is getting crowded.

• Drone platform in a (big) box company Airobotics eyes Australian expansion

  ​An Israeli company that offers a fully automated industrial drone system is looking to expand to Australia and raise funding locally.

• Start-up eyes mining asteroids for space colonies

  From a nondescript office on the edge of the Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley, Deep Space Industries is plotting a futuristic scheme to locate asteroids, check them out and then send in mining spacecraft to strip them of their minerals.

• Rio Tinto signs $20M IT services deal with Empired

  Mining giant, Rio Tinto has signed a $20 million, five-year managed services contract with IT services company, Empired Limited.
  

• RadComms: Tech advances to be fueled by spectrum

  Access to high-bandwidth wireless broadband is critical for supporting drones, national defence and autonomous mining equipment, according to presenters from industry and government at the RadComms conference in Sydney today.
  

• Internet of Things to revolutionise industry: GE

  General Electric sees the Internet of Things as a “huge opportunity” for itself and its customers, said Mark Sheppard, CIO of GE in Australia and New Zealand, said yesterday.

• Firefighting, mining sectors see future in drones

  The Australian firefighting and mining sectors are showing interest in using drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for a range of applications.
  

• Enterprise to try on smart glasses in 2014: Deloitte

  Enterprises this year will begin to experiment with wearable computing as a way to increase safety and productivity in the workplace, according to Deloitte.

• Banks, mining lead Australian ICT spending: IDC

  The financial services sector will continue to be a bright spot for ICT spending growth in 2014, according to an IDC analyst.

• Thiess mines operational data with cloud dashboard

  Workers at Thiess Australia are using a cloud-based dashboard to make sense of large mines of data critical to maintaining the company’s machines.

• Gone are the days when CIOs simply said ‘no’

  The days when CIOs could simply say ‘no’ to challenging requests are long gone as they are having to prove their worth to the business more so than ever, according to ex-president of KBR Minerals, Mark Read.

• Productivity key focus for resources sector, extends to IT: Oracle

  When it comes to implementing IT in the mining industry, it is important to bring in real time value.
  

• Iluka shares soar

  Iluka Resources shares spike on central bank deal, transport enhancements

• Runge free of “black cloud”: MD

  Industrial software company Runge (ASX:RUL) is safe from any further action in a four-year lawsuit against consulting subsidiary PAH

• Oil and Gas: Big gains but a high risk game too

  The fifth in a series of in-depth features on sector specific challenges facing CFOs