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Where mining meets Silicon Valley

Mines and Silicon Valley don’t have a lot in common, right? An Australian mining-technology fund manager that brought together miners and tech entrepreneurs to San Jose last year to get to know each other says “it was like asking a spider to talk to a fish”.

Where mining meets Silicon Valley Where mining meets Silicon Valley Where mining meets Silicon Valley Where mining meets Silicon Valley Where mining meets Silicon Valley

But that’s not stopping big miners such as Anglo American from gathering tech companies together for discussions about how best to change mining under its FutureSmart banner, in tech start-up hubs