Since its inception, the mining industry has been marked by the technological advances. Nevertheless, this aspects has been even more revelant and evident nowadays.

The trend indicates that skills will change, going through teleoperated or manual operations to aumotated activities.

Given this situation, the I International Conference on Mining Digitalization and New Industrial Technologies – Mining 4.0is presented as an ideal and timely area to present, share and analyse how the companies are incorportated the available technology solutions and changes.

The new technologies offers to the mining industry the opportunity to continous developing the productivity, security and sustanaibility. For this, the mining industry faces the challengues to prepare future miners to process optimization and new skills.