India, Oct. 2 -- Australia risks losing its world-leading advantage in critical and rare minerals used for clean energy, electric vehicles and batteries for solar energy, unless it embraces artificial intelligence in the mining sector, according to research from Monash University and the University of Tasmania.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers argue artificial Intelligence will revolutionise the mining of copper, lithium, nickel, zinc, cobalt and rare earth minerals used to produce clean energy technologies.

Australia is in a prime position to benefit with the world's largest proven reserves of nickel and zinc, the second largest proven reserves of cobalt and copper and the world's third largest proven rese...