Draslovka and Avathon form strategic alliance to automate global mining

Draslovka a.s. (Draslovka), a global innovator in sustainable chemical technologies and AI-enabled services for the mining sector, and Avathon, a leader in autonomy for operations, announced a strategic commercial partnership. The partnership aims to accelerate the adoption of intelligent, autonomous, and data-driven operations across the global mining industry.

This partnership provides a breakthrough solution. It combines Draslovka’s real-time mineral and slurry monitoring technologies—delivered through its world-class Blue Cube on-stream mineralogical sensors—and MetOptima advanced metallurgical optimization AI engine, with the Avathon Autonomy Platform. This platform is a scalable industrial-AI environment that enhances operational performance, automates decisions, and orchestrates complex operations across sites.

Under the agreement, Draslovka and Avathon will collaborate closely on go-to-market initiatives, jointly commercializing and cross-selling the combined offering. The combined Draslovka-Avathon offering will empower miners to boost recoveries and stabilize throughput via real-time mineralogy and metallurgical AI. It will also lower reagent, energy, and operating costs while reducing process variability. Furthermore, it will digitize and automate operations across maintenance, HSE, and supply chain. The offering will maximize asset performance and minimize unplanned downtime, enabling faster, cross-functional decision-making across the full mining value chain, and extending intelligence upstream into exploration and resource optimization.

Blue Cube’s on-stream sensors continuously provide high-frequency mineralogical data. This allows mining operations to stabilize circuits, improve recovery, and respond instantly to process variability. MetOptima’s metallurgical AI builds on this live data stream. It diagnoses inefficiencies, predicts plant behavior, and recommends optimal control strategies. By applying MetOptima-sourced real-time intelligence to ore quality data, operators can dynamically adjust downstream processing parameters to maximize recovery while optimizing reagent use and other input costs.

Avathon’s Autonomy Platform delivers AI-driven, end-to-end planning, decision intelligence, and autonomous actions across the mining value chain. This includes exploration, logistics, asset management, supply chain, and HSE. Powered by Avathon’s proprietary Computational Knowledge Graph (CKG), the platform connects assets, suppliers, logistics, inventory, and risk factors into a single semantic intelligence layer. This eliminates silos and creates real-time operational context. This relationship-aware intelligence drives faster decisions and coordinated autonomous actions, optimizing performance and resilience across mining operations.

“This partnership with Avathon allows us to deliver Draslovka’s real-time mineral and slurry monitoring technologies as part of an integrated operational platform, answering the growing industry demand for optimization and autonomous decision making. The partnership reflects our commitment to delivering practical, scalable and easy-to-implement AI solutions that transform plant performance and sustainability," Pavel Bruzek, Draslovka CEO, said.

Precious mineral mining and processing are inherently variable. Ore grades fluctuate, mineral composition shifts, and recovery conditions change daily. This variability directly impacts yield and operating costs. Industrial AI powering Draslovka’s and Avathon’s combined offering unlocks a breakthrough opportunity. It allows continuous analysis of complex, multi-variable conditions and autonomous optimization of recovery processes end-to-end. This drives higher yield, lower cost per ton, and more predictable performance.

“Mining customers are looking to connect plant-level optimization with enterprise-wide operational resilience. Through our collaboration with Draslovka, Avathon delivers that bridge—combining real-time process intelligence with autonomous operational management to drive smarter, more resilient operations," Pervinder Johar, CEO of Avathon, said.