In Mali, the Syama gold mine, majority owned by Australian-based Resolute Mining, is preparing to become the first fully automated mine in the world. This means that automated machinery will perform activities such as clearing of the drill point, extraction of the ore and loading of the ore onto haul trucks. However, the downside of adopting autonomous technologies is that this may lead to job tosses in the mining sector. Most of the gas flaring takes place upstream in the oil sector.