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Short answers on diesel, power, costs and carbon rules in mining. To see them worked out with your own mine data, book a demo.
Carbonova connects fleet, fuel-dispensing, energy-meter and processing-plant SCADA data to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents that closes the Scope 1, 2 and 3 inventory, flags anomalies such as rising haul-truck idle time and ranks measures by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. The same dataset produces carbon reports for regulators, customers and investors, with an audit trail back to the source.
The two largest sources are usually diesel burned by haul trucks, loaders and generators and the electricity used for crushing and grinding, followed by explosives and, at some mines, methane. In a US Department of Energy reference study, grinding accounted for about 40% of the energy used in US mining and materials handling for 17% (DOE, 2007).
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme covers sites with combustion units above 20 MW of total rated thermal input and plants that roast, sinter or pelletise metal ore, which leaves out many smaller sites. UK-listed companies report against UK SRS on a comply-or-explain basis for accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2027, with first reports in 2028 and a one-year relief for Scope 3 (FCA, 2026).
Yes. Since 1 April 2022, mining and quarrying can no longer use rebated red diesel, so fuel for machinery pays the full diesel duty rate (HMRC). Every litre saved through less idling, better payloads or electrified equipment is therefore worth more than before the change. Carbonova’s planning agent ranks those measures by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided, using the site’s real fuel and production data.
Sentinel AI tracks fuel burn, idle time and load factor for each truck and flags drift, while the planning agent compares measures such as idle reduction, payload management, partial electrification and renewable power by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. Battery-electric haul trucks are still in field trials, so full fleet electrification is modelled as a long-term scenario rather than a baseline assumption.
Signal Ingest connects SCADA, ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, energy meters, fleet IoT sensors and fuel and explosives purchase records, then normalises and versions the data. Proof Engine keeps each number’s lineage back to its source, with versioned emission factors and a change history, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard, which makes third-party verification of the inventory easier.
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