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CASE STUDY
Tom Cawley , Executive Chair and Interim CEO , MaxMine , says the average open pit mine can reduce Scope 1 emissions by up to 10 – 15 % by leveraging data .
“ Working with the Snowflake team is just as good as the Snowflake technology . The technical and account teams are always available and willing to lend a hand to help us overcome specific problems as they arise .”
“ MaxMine employs data enabling the average open pit mine to improve productivity whilst also reducing its carbon footprint by around 15 – 20,000 tonnes of
CO 2
. At the same time , MaxMine ’ s safety solutions use data to determine incident causes and opportunities to improve truck operator behaviour .
“ Huge amounts of data are vital to our Mining Done Different mission , so we needed a partner of Snowflake ’ s calibre . With Snowflake , we are able to derive greater value and deliver tangible benefits to our customers , supporting them and accelerating their decarbonisation journey .”
Ben Chartier , Head of Product Development , MaxMine , says Snowflake was chosen after an extensive and in-depth review of modern cloud data technologies balanced up the technical and business needs for the MaxMine product .
“ We were impressed with Snowflake ’ s approach to decoupling compute and storage from the underlying data technology . With Snowflake , we were able to get a technical proof of concept up and running in a week and so were able to demonstrate a meaningful capability uplift with a short time to value .
Theo Hourmouzis , Regional Vice President , Snowflake Australia and New Zealand , said : “ Data plays an ever increasing and pivotal role in delivering a sustainable future . Snowflake looks forward to the continued collaboration with MaxMine , using data as the Driving force , leveraging advanced analytics , Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence , enabling more mining operators globally to improve efficiency and achieve their Net Zero goals .”
We asked MaxMine Interim CEO and Exec Chair Tom Cawley for more .
From an operational perspective , what are the medium-to-long-term advantages for MaxMine transitioning with Snowflake ?
Having all our data in one place means we can join disparate datasets together and deliver even more insights to our customers , whether internal teams or end-users . The Snowflake Data Cloud enables easy and seamless integration into our Business Intelligence ( BI ) tool of choice , equipping our operational and client-facing teams with the ability to pull together the visualisations they seek . We are putting the technology
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