Technologies for mining asteroids can be adapted for mining on earth, says SAP

The dynamics of mining on earth are changing as the economics of the industry change. Mechanisation, digitalisation and environment-friendly trends are dramatically affecting the fundamentals of mining worldwide, says enterprise resource planning multinational SAP MineRP marketing VP Empie Strydom. Value from investments in mining take time to come to fruition, he says, pointing out that space mining is the same. However, the mixture of business and technical skills, as well as business models, and tools used to plan the outcomes in mining exploration on earth can as readily be applied to mining exploration in space.