Prof Gideon Chitombo invited to be a member of the i2Mine Advisory Board

Prof Gideon Chitombo was appointed as a Member of the Advisory Board of a Consortium (I2 Mine) looking at the future challenges of Deep Mining in Europe. The I2Mine (Innovative Technologies and Concepts for the Intelligent Deep Mine of the Future) project marks the start of a series of activities designed to realise the concept of an invisible, zero-impact mine.  It will concentrate on the development of technologies suitable for deep mining activities. The I2Mine project has now been up and running for a year and the annual meetings of the Management Committee, Advisory Board and the General Assembly were held at the end of October in Kiruna, Sweden, courtesy of LKAB.