The Pavlovskoe lead-zinc deposit is located in the South Island of the Novaya Zemlya arctic archipelago, pictured here. Photo by Maria Andreevna, Wikimedia Commons.

First Ore-Mining Company, a part of mining division of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, and Zyfra, a Finnish-Russian digital solutions provider for heavy industries, announced this week that they have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in deploying artificial intelligence-based solutions in mining and enrichment operations at the Pavlovskoe deposit, where there are plans to build the most northerly mining enterprise in Russia.



In a press release, the companies said that the idea is to give themselves three years to explore a possible project to implement robotics and remote control of quarry equipment at Pavlovskoe.

