Mining: Mining Industry Can Now Predict Opposition to Projects before It's Too Late

Aug 7, 2017 | Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.com
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It’s sounds too good to be true, but a new company is proving miners they can foresee opposition or any other form of social conflict related to their projects, before they even attempt going through a licencing process. Chalkstone, a UK-based company founded by Donald Bray, a political anthropologist and academic at the University of Cambridge, bases its success in a very unique method, applying what’s known as “granular social intelligence.”