First commercial application of AI model for the mining industry at Lilou Coal Mine, Heze, China - 19 Jul 2023
People walk up a mining site during an organized media tour at the Lilou Coal Mine in Heze, Shandong province, China, 19 July 2023. Members of the press visited the Lilou Coal Mine to view the first commercial application of artificial intelligence (AI) for the mining industry called the Pangu Mine Model. The AI model is capable of visual recognition capabilities, analyzing the quality of stress relief drilling, and can assist in rock burst prevention personnel in quality verification, reducing the review workload by 82 percent, shortening the check to 10 minutes from three days with 100 percent acceptance rate.