Spoiler alert: there are quite a few challenges, but progress is being made.

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My latest post is about how, despite our perceptions, digital isn’t aways better for the environment and how AI is here to stay, but its scale, proliferation and impact – environmental and otherwise – are not inevitable.

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For this story, I speak with Jowitt, Director of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the University of Nevada, Reno, alongside Bluelake Mineral and Silver X Mining, to explore how district-scale mining works in practice — and why the strategy is gaining momentum 📈.

As Simon Jowitt explains: “One of the main challenges in any mining operation is the capital cost of construction and development of a processing plant… With district mining, you can start feeding the processing plant more quickly with resources from smaller deposits that are faster to develop.”

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The technology has HUGE potential in Ireland but is stagnating as developers wait for further clarity on upcoming regulations.

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In the feature we also touch on the engineering challenges, controversy that has arisen, and a British company opening its first factory in Neom.

To give you a sense of the scale of the project, Middling says: "It's like every tower in New York suddenly becomes connected at all different levels - people will move through the mid-levels, seamlessly between buildings, without leaving the comfort of those spaces."