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Issue 23 2018
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the editor
Talk about tailings
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he past 30 years have seen great changes in the way miners approach social and environmental issues. Ever since the Brundtland Commission defined sustainability in 1987, increasing emphasis has been placed on what used to be called the ‘softer’ issues of community relations and environmental management. Canada has helped to raise the bar in attainment and accountability through the Towards Sustainable Mining initiative, a sustainability standard developed by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC). Launched in 2004, TSM requires mining companies to annually assess their facilities in key areas, including tailings management, community outreach, safety and health, biodiversity conservation, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Their results are evaluated by an external auditor every three years. The initiative has gained international traction to the extent that other countries are now adopting it, too. The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) is the latest to do so, following the national mining associations of Finland (FinnMin), Argentina (Cámara Argentina de Empresarios Mineros) and Botswana (Botswana Chamber of Mines). A standard of this kind incorporates a multitude of individual issues, but one that has been exercising my mind of late is mine tailings, after I happened across a report called Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident by the United Nations
Martin Ashcroft
Environment Programme (UNEP), in association with GRID Arendal. While many individual initiatives lend themselves to incremental improvements, tailings has an element of ‘all or nothing’ about it, as Vale and BHP know only too well, after the massive Samarco dam breach in Brazil in 2015. The joint UNEP-GRID Arendal assessment highlights over 40 mining waste failures over the last decade, including eight ‘significant’ spills since 2014. These failures have killed people, poisoned rivers and jeopardized the livelihoods of many communities. Released in Geneva in October 2017, the report urges states and the mining industry to end deadly and damaging mining waste spills by enforcing a ‘zero-failure objective’. A useful start might be for more to join initiatives like the Canadian TSM. Taking place in the first week of March, organised by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the annual PDAC International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange is one of the major events in the calendar for people associated with mineral exploration. With over 25,000 expected to attend, there’s a good chance that some of you may be reading this in your hotel rooms in Toronto. We hope you have an enjoyable and rewarding visit. There’s nothing like a show to get people sharing their challenges and experiences, so why not talk about tailings while you’re there?
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Contents Cover story
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Page: 3 • The Editor: Talk about tailings 6 • Energold Drilling Corp: New frontiers in drilling 13 • • 17 • 19 • • 21 • • 23 • • 27 • • 30 •
BHP invests in Olympic Dam Orex to buy silver-copper-zinc project in Mexico Altura Lithium Project close to commissioning phase Rio Tinto to extend operations at Vaudreuil alumina refinery Mountain Province Diamonds to acquire Kennady Diamonds Parsons appointed main construction manager for Giant Mine remediation Uranium Energy Corp acquires the Diabase Project Anaconda expands Great Northern Project GeoProMining and Glencore Technology promote Albion Process Tahoe Resources joins UN Global Compact Gold Fields sells Arctic Platinum Project to CD Capita Agnico Eagle: High quality, low risk
42 • Devico: Mine truly, drill deeply 48 • Enaex: Thinking big for the future of mining
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Chief Finance Officer Steven Gold tells Martin Ashcroft why Energold Drilling is the natural choice for remote drilling programs, for social, environmental and operational reasons World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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he mining cycle starts with exploration, either to expand mines currently in production or discover sites where new mines can be built. All mines have a limited life, so it is essential to replenish reserves and resources to maintain a steady supply of metals and minerals. As resources in one area are depleted, so miners look elsewhere for fresh deposits, accepting the inevitability that these are likely to be ever more remote and hard to access. As it is with low-hanging fruit, the easy pickings have already been gathered.
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“The next big discovery is not going to be made in the developed world,” says Steven Gold, Chief Finance Officer of Energold Drilling. “It’s going to be in the developing world. We are the gold standard when it comes to drilling in undeveloped jurisdictions.” The company we now know as Energold was founded in 1973 as Windflower Mining Ltd by its current President and CEO, Frederick W. Davidson. Originally a junior gold exploration company, often working in remote, densely forested locations with limited infrastructure and access, it was reorganized in 1994 with a portfolio of properties in the Dominican Republic, part of a divestiture from TOTAL, at which time it was renamed Energold Mining Ltd. Energold realized that traditional mineral drilling methods left a lot to be desired when working in remote areas. When a project encountered rough terrain and thick forest, the traditional approach was to cut down trees and develop a road infrastructure. So Energold developed a new, highly mobile, modular drilling rig, which could be transported on a one metre wide footpath. When the drilling
program was completed the rig could be dismantled and carried away, leaving behind a minimal environmental footprint. The portable rigs proved so successful that Energold began to hire them out to other mining companies. In 2005 the company was renamed Energold Drilling Corporation to reflect its new focus on contract drilling services. Energold has since turned ‘frontier drilling’ into a speciality with its manportable drilling rigs, attention to detail, local recruitment and a socially and environmentally responsible business approach.
Growth
Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Energold Drilling Corp is now a diversified global drilling company serving clients in other industry sectors as well as mining; such as oil & gas, water, and seismic and geothermal drilling. The company has grown from six drilling rigs in 2006 to over 250 rigs today, drilling in 24 countries around the world including in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
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“About 65 to 70 per cent of our business is in mineral drilling, with the balance being oil & gas, geotechnical and water,” says Gold. “Of that mineral drilling, about 80 per cent is with the man-portable modular rig. Once you’re drilling it’s no different from conventional drilling. The value in what we do is that we can get our rigs to harder to reach spots. But our rigs drill as deep as anyone else’s rigs. The vast majority of our revenue on the mineral side is from the portable business, but we also do conventional drilling.” In January 2011 Energold completed the acquisition of UK-based Dando Drilling International, a company with a 150 year history in the design and manufacture of specialty/customized drilling rigs and associated equipment for water well, mineral exploration and geotechnical drilling applications.
Since 2012 one of Energold’s strategic objectives has been to use Dando Drilling’s design and manufacturing expertise to target the mineral exploration sector with a new range of modular rigs. “If you want to drill in Nevada you can put a big rig on an 18 wheeler and take it down the highway,” says Gold. “But if you want to drill in a remote area where there’s no electricity or there are social issues, you need our rigs to do that. We built this business on rigs that you, me and two other people can take apart and move piece by piece.” While a conventional rig might weigh over two tonnes, Energold’s frontier drills can be dismantled for easy transportation, with the heaviest piece weighing only 400 pounds. The modular rig is designed to be taken apart in less than 45 minutes and its components
can be transported inside small fixed wing aircraft, pick-up trucks, dug-out canoes or carried by local labourers and/or mules on footpaths. The drill’s light weight and small size reduce flying hours on helicopter supported jobs. Being totally modular also means that repairs can be effected in the field rather than returning the rig to a shop. Only the failed or damaged part is removed for repair or replacement. Land permitting and reclamation are also made easier because of the small environmental footprint. The rig can be setup in a four by four metre space.
Safety and performance
Energold measures its performance on three fronts; operational, social and environmental. At the operational level, safety is the prime consideration. “Drilling is extremely dangerous,” says World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Gold. “You’re dealing with enough power to pull a Volkswagen out of the ground at 500 feet. You’re dealing with extremely strong machinery, heavy pieces of metal, and volatile fuels. There’s any number of things that can go wrong. We are not always the cheapest but we win contracts on our safety record.” Energold can count the world’s largest mining companies among its customers, which enhances its credibility in the marketplace. “Any Fortune 500 company would have very stringent safety demands when it hires a driller, and we work for everybody, so our reputation is well known,” says Gold. “If someone cuts their finger on a drilling rig and has to put a Band Aid on, as immaterial as that might seem, the operation would shut down so the incident could be investigated. Everything’s accounted for and nothing is taken for granted. It’s as much about safety as it is about performance.” Performance is more easily measured. How many metres can you drill in a given amount of time? How good is your organisation of the core samples? But running an efficient and productive program is an operational prerequisite. Any customer would expect that from any contractor. In today’s marketplace, however, other considerations differentiate the world-class operator
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“If you want to drill in Nevada you can put a big rig on an 18 wheeler and take it down the highway. But if you want to drill in a remote area where there’s no electricity or there are social issues, you need our rigs to do that”
from the rest. Drilling companies often have a hard time because their activities disrupt communities and leave scars on the landscape. The social and environmental effects of drilling have taken on greater importance in recent years, however, and Energold’s experience gives it an advantage in working in developing countries with sensitive communities. “A big Fortune 500 company coming to work in these small communities will carry a tremendous amount of bureaucracy,” says Gold. “We’ve built our business on working quickly with our client, and with government agencies. We’re experts in working in these small remote towns and villages in hard to get to regions. The efficiency of a drilling program doesn’t start and end with the drill bit turning. It’s coordination with local government, it’s safety issues, it’s co-ordination with the local villagers, it’s hiring procedures, it’s housing, it’s everything. “We have a local office in every country in which we operate. This allows us to work faster. If we get a new job in Peru, for example, we don’t have to set up a local office. When our clients hire us they know that we’re already there, so they don’t have to wait three or four weeks. We’re ready to go today.” Hiring local people is a vital element
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of the Energold approach. “You can get a drilling contract for 2000 metres or 25,000 metres,” says Gold, “but on every drill rig there are two crews of ten. Of those twenty people we would have two from Canada, because we have to be represented there, but 90 per cent would be local.” These would include ‘drill helpers’ whose responsibilities would be to transport the rig, assemble and disassemble it, and to insert and transfer rods, among other tasks. A drill helper can eventually become a fully fledged driller and drill supervisor, endorsing Energold’s social approach based on long term relationships with local communities and host governments. “It doesn’t end there because our crews need to eat, so we hire the local restaurant,” continues Gold. “We hire the local hotel. Everything’s local. We’re probably impacting 50 - 75 people for every drilling rig. If the customer has a lot of drilling targets they can hire five rigs or more. On a small sites we might have just one rig, but on others sites we can have up to ten rigs.” Energold is the largest man portable rig
“We’re one of the largest drillers in the world, and we’re ready to work for anyone because we have the expertise, the infrastructure and the management to do that”
operator in the world but its strengths extend further than the flexibility of its modular frontier drills. The company combines a global presence with intimate local knowledge and its fleet of conventional, underground and modular drill rigs provides a comprehensive range of drilling services from early stage exploration to mine site operations. “We’re one of the largest drillers in the world, and we’re ready to work for anyone because we have the expertise, the infrastructure and the management to do that,” concludes Gold. “If you’re spending operational capital in a challenging jurisdiction we should be your first call. Our experience precedes us; our safety record precedes us. We’re very competitive as far as rates are concerned; we’re well managed, we’re well funded. We can drill a hole as well as anyone else and we can get to remote jurisdictions better than anyone else.” It’s no surprise, then, that demand is exceeding expectations for 2018.
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BHP invests AU$350 million in Olympic Dam
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HP is ramping up to full production at its multi-resource Olympic Dam complex after an investment of more than AU$350 million. The maintenance and upgrade of the company’s surface operations was the largest planned shutdown project ever undertaken at the mine. The project to upgrade the smelter began in August 2017 and ran for over 100 days. BHP also carried out major upgrade works on the refinery, concentrator, other
Operations will continue to ramp up to full capacity in
“We are increasing the global competitiveness of Olympic Dam through continuous improvements to our infrastructure, technology and processes” key infrastructure and site technology. Smelting operations resumed in late 2017 with the first anode cast from the flash furnace in December.
the March 2018 quarter. “Through this latest project and other ongoing works, we are increasing the global competitiveness of Olympic Dam through continuous
improvements to our infrastructure, technology and processes,” said Olympic Dam president Jacqui McGill. This year marks 30 years of operations at Olympic Dam, which is located approximately 350 miles north north-west of Adelaide and is one of the world’s most significant deposits of copper, uranium, gold and silver. Approximately 70% of the mine’s revenue comes from copper, 25% from uranium, and the remainder from silver and gold.
Orex to buy silver-copper-zinc project in Mexico
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rex Minerals has entered into an option agreement with Exploraciones del Altiplano to acquire a 100% interest
in the San Luis del Cordero Project in Durango, Mexico. This follows the signing of a letter of intent with respect to the transaction on 4 December 2017. “We look forward to conducting a new exploration program on this promising silver-copper-zinc project in the prolific Silver Trend of north-central Mexico,” said Orex President, Gary Cope.
“This is another key step in the revitalization of Orex.” The property has undergone several phases of exploration, with multiple targets yet to be explored. Old mine workings and mineralized showings wrap around a quartz-feldspar-porphyry intrusive. Diamond drilling of 62 holes from 2000-2016 total approximately 16,400 metres.
Orex Minerals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on precious and base metals exploration in Mexico and Canada.
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Altura Lithium Project close to commissioning phase
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ltura Mining Limited expects its process plant to be commissioned in the next few weeks, as it approaches first production from its Altura Lithium Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crushing circuit is scheduled to commence commissioning in March, with the wet plant to follow in April/ May, including both the dense media separation (DMS) and flotation circuits. The company says it is on-track to meet its target of first lithium concentrate sales in Q2 2018. A stage two definitive feasibility study, aiming at output of 400,000 tonnes per annum, is on course for completion in April. In other plant development milestones, the majority of steel fabrication is complete and on-site, electrical installation works have commenced, the high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) have been installed and 50% of conveyors are in place. The Altura Board has chosen to adopt an owner-operator model for the process plant, rather than use a contractor, feeling that the company was
“It is a testament to the hard work of the entire team that we now have the commissioning phase clearly in sight and taking this project to near term production from a greenfields site”
better placed to recruit its own specialist team and maintain tighter control over the intellectual property involved in operation of the plant. “It is a testament to the hard work of the entire team that we now have the commissioning phase clearly in sight and taking this project to near term production from a greenfields site,” said Altura managing director James Brown. “This has been especially pleasing given some of the recent weather events in the Pilbara, where we only experienced minor delays and, importantly, no damage. “It was also pleasing to have internationally-recognised lithium expert Joe Lowry from Global Lithium visit our site recently. He was impressed with the progress.” The project, located at Pilgangoora in Western Australia, is approximately 123km drive from the town of Port Hedland. Concentrate will be exported by ship from Port Hedland to Altura’s lithium alliance partners in China, for further processing into a wide range of lithium chemicals. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Rio Tinto to extend operations at Vaudreuil alumina refinery
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io Tinto will invest C$250 million to extend operations beyond 2022 at the Vaudreuil alumina refinery in the Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The project includes the construction of a filtration plant and the optimisation of the Jonquière complex bauxite residue site. “Today is an important milestone in the Vaudreuil plant’s 80 year history,” said Gervais Jacques, managing director, Atlantic Operations. “It will continue to supply our world class aluminium smelting operations, support more than 1,000 jobs and generate significant economic benefits for the Saguenay – Lac-SaintJean region.
“This C$250 million investment will allow us to plan for the coming years”
“The Vaudreuil refinery can now look to the future and this C$250 million investment will allow us to plan for the coming years. The high quality alumina produced at our Vaudreuil plant allows us to remain competitive in terms of costs and increase value for our customers.” Commissioned in 1936, the Vaudreuil plant transforms bauxite into alumina, an essential component of aluminium production. In 2015, Rio Tinto began a community consultation process, which allowed the company to improve and supplement the Vaudreuil 2022 project in collaboration with the community, employees and their representatives.
Mountain Province Diamonds to acquire Kennady Diamonds
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ountain Province Diamonds has signed a definitive arrangement agreement to acquire Kennady Diamonds in a friendly all-share offer, which values Kennady at approximately C$176 million. Upon completion, the combined company will be owned approximately 76% by Mountain Province shareholders and 24% by Kennady shareholders. “The Kennady assets are a strong complement to Mountain Province’s interest in the Gahcho Kué project, significantly adding to our attributed resource base,” said David E. Whittle, interim president and CEO of Mountain Province. “Kennady’s exploration efforts have been very successful and we have high confidence in our ability to continue that success.”
Kennady Diamonds Inc. owns 100% of the Kennady North diamond project in Canada’s Northwest Territories, adjacent to the Gahcho Kué diamond mine in which Mountain Province Diamonds is a 49% participant with De Beers Canada. Gahcho Kué is the world’s largest new diamond mine, consisting of a cluster of four diamondiferous kimberlites, three of which are being developed and mined under the initial 12 year mine plan. In addition to shareholder approval, the deal is also subject to court approval and the acceptance of the applicable stock exchanges. The transaction is expected to close in April 2018. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Parsons appointed main construction manager for Giant Mine remediation
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he Government of Canada has appointed Parsons Inc as the main construction manager for the Giant Mine Remediation Project. Work will be carried out over two terms, with term one focusing on responsibility for site care and maintenance and emerging risks on site, as well as supporting planning efforts for the full remediation in term two. The work will start immediately and will be undertaken until 31 March 2020 at a cost of up to $32 million. The cost estimate of term two will be determined following design work undertaken in term one. In term two, set to begin in 2020, Parsons will oversee the implementation of the overall remediation plan and associated activities. This contract will provide valuable economic and employment opportunities for indigenous peoples and northerners.
“Today’s announcement is an important step toward building a new legacy for the site, one that reflects the input of the communities, protects the environment, and creates economic growth and opportunities for the North and Indigenous peoples,” said the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs. Giant Mine is an abandoned gold mine within the city boundaries of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It operated from 1948 until 1999. The former owner, Royal Oak Mines, entered receivership in 1999 and the Ontario Supreme Court transferred the property to INAC (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada). The Giant Mine site is one of the highest priority contaminated sites within the federal property inventory and requires ongoing management to protect human health and safety, and the environment.
“This is an important step toward building a new legacy for the site”
Uranium Energy Corp acquires the Diabase Project
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ranium Energy Corp has closed a definitive property purchase agreement with Nuinsco Resources Limited to acquire 100% of the Diabase project on the south rim of the Athabasca Basin uranium district in Saskatchewan, Canada. Total consideration for the acquisition is approximately $500,000, comprising $240,000 in cash and 164,767 shares (at a deemed issuance price of $1.60 per common share).
The property has seen in excess of US$20 million in historical exploration work, including over 21,000 meters of diamond drilling, geophysical
surveying and surficial sampling data. “Our acquisition strategy focuses on low cost, high value projects,” said Clyde Yancey, VP-Exploration. “The Diabase project is consistent with those objectives and UEC gains an opportunistic foothold in the Athabasca Basin. The project is an excellent addition to our pipeline of exploration properties for future development in a premier uranium district.” World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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naconda Mining has acquired the Rattling Brook Deposit in northwest Newfoundland from Kermode Resources, adding neighbouring property to its existing land holdings in the immediate area. Anaconda’s land position in the Northern Peninsula also includes the Thor Deposit, approximately 20 kilometres south of Rattling Brook along strike, which contains an indicated resource of 83,000 ounces and an inferred resource of 31,000 ounces. Anaconda now has two deposits and numerous prospects in the area, all collectively referred to as the Great Northern Project. “The acquisition of the Rattling Brook Deposit consolidates Anaconda’s land position within the region of our exploration portfolio, and is the first step in a strategy to realize shareholder value for the Great Northern Project,” said Dustin Angelo, President and CEO. “There is a renewed interest in the gold exploration potential in Newfoundland, and we believe we are well positioned to generate value from our now-expanded Great Northern Project.”
Anaconda Mining expands Great Northern Project
“There is a renewed interest in the gold exploration potential in Newfoundland”
Anaconda made an initial cash payment of $25,000 and issued Kermode $500,000 of Anaconda common shares. An additional cash payment of $25,000 was made on 26 February 2018. Kermode Resources, which refers to the property as the Jackson’s Arm Gold Deposit, held the asset for many years. Between 1986 and 2008, Kermode drilled approximately 130 of the 183 holes used to establish an NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 495,000 ounces of gold. “While it was a difficult decision to sell this asset, this deal gives us the opportunity to focus on the Eastgate Gold Project in Nevada, which we intend to consolidate and advance,” said Don Moore, CEO and Chairman of Kermode Resources.
GeoProMining and Glencore Technology promote Albion Process
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ollowing its success at GeoProMining’s Ararat processing plant in Armenia, GPM has signed a collaboration agreement with Glencore Technology to market the Albion Process. GPM has successfully used Glencore Technology’s atmospheric leaching process to increase overall recovery from sulphide concentrates in its Ararat plant from 20% to over 95%, defying expectations and targets. GPM is now evaluating a second line of Albion Process. The Ararat plant, now operating above design throughput and recovery levels, was fully supplied by Glencore Technology and installed, commissioned
and ramped up in partnership with GPM Gold. GPM will have the right to market the technology in Russia in partnership with Glencore Technology. The agreement means the GPM plant can now be used as a training facility for what is recognised as a proven combination of ultrafine grinding and oxidative leaching. The Ararat plant will become a model to show potential clients the Albion Process in operation and to provide training of operations, maintenance and technical personnel. The collaboration agreement continues a six year relationship between GPM and Glencore Technology.
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Tahoe Resources joins United Nations Global Compact
“Developing strong corporate citizenship is a constant learning exercise, and we are always looking for ways to improve”
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ahoe Resources has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. As an official participant of the UNGC, Tahoe joins other international businesses, including a number of industry-leading mining companies, in committing to align its strategies and operations with the ten principles of the UNGC on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance these societal goals. “At Tahoe it is imperative that we are constantly mindful of the full range of impacts our business operations have on our employees, our host communities, our stakeholders and our environment,” said Ron Clayton, President and CEO of Tahoe. “Developing strong corporate citizenship is a constant learning exercise, and we are always looking
for ways to improve. Last year brought with it a number of challenges, as well as some steps in the right direction, including strengthening our social and environmental management teams. Joining the UNGC is the next step in this process, reaffirming our existing commitments to building our business around human rights, good governance and responsible practices.” As part of its commitment, Tahoe will make the UN Global Compact and its principles part of the strategy, policy, culture and day-to-day operations of the company, and continue to engage collaboratively on programming that advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Tahoe Resources operates the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, the La Arena and Shahuindo gold mines in Peru and the Timmins West and Bell Creek gold mines in Canada.
Gold Fields sells Arctic Platinum Project to CD Capital
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old Fields has sold its palladium-rich, polymetallic Arctic Platinum Project in northern Finland to a Finnish subsidiary of private equity fund CD Capital. The purchase consideration comprises $40 million cash and royalty (2% NSR net smelter return) on all metals. The sale includes all of the project assets for APP including the Suhanko mining licence (and associated real estate), all other mining and exploration properties, project permits and all other project related assets. “The divestment of APP is consistent with our strategy of divesting non-core assets, and reinforces the focus that Gold Fields continues to show in relation to its asset portfolio,” said Nick Holland, CEO of Gold Fields. “We are pleased to have balanced the purchase price between
up-front cash and continued long-term exposure through the royalty, and believe this to be a positive outcome for both parties.” Gold Fields Limited is a globally diversified producer of gold with eight operating mines in Australia, Ghana, Peru and South Africa. APP consists of three project areas named Suhanko, Narkaus and Penikat. The projects are located in southern Lapland in Finland, approximately 50km south of the city of Rovaniemi, which is the regional capital with excellent infrastructure and services. A network of well established roads exists in the area with all-year access to the port of Kemi. Finland is a mining-friendly jurisdiction with a skilled workforce and favourable tax regime.
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agnico eagle high quality, low risk Agnico Eagle is a Canadian mining company with a rich history of precious metal production. With operating mines in Canada, Finland and Mexico, its portfolio continues to expand through acquisition as well as exploration and development projects.
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Agnico Eagle celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, after an eventful history decorated with achievements. The company was formed in 1957 as Agnico Mines, taking its name from the chemical symbols for silver (Ag), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co). It’s better known as a gold producer these days, of course, after a series of mergers and acquisitions. The Eagle arrived in the shape of Eagle Gold Mines in 1973, a merger overseen by the company’s legendary president and chairman, Paul Penna, and which resulted in the creation of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited. Eagle brought with it the Joutel Mine, which produced a million ounces of gold from 1974 to 1993. This was followed by the acquisition of Dumagami Mines in Quebec. Holding one of the largest gold deposits in Canada, Dumagami was renamed LaRonde, and has since become Agnico Eagle’s flagship mine. Located in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, LaRonde has produced more than 5 million ounces of gold since it opened in 1988. Its 2.2 kilometre deep Penna Shaft is now the deepest singlelift shaft in the western hemisphere.
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LaRonde achieved commercial production of its deep extension in November 2011, where approximately 87% of its ore is now mined. Gold production is expected to average 363,000 ounces per year from 2018 through 2019, reflecting the higher gold grades expected at depth. LaRonde currently has a mine life lasting through to 2024. Ore is processed at the LaRonde mineral processing complex, which includes copper and zinc flotation as well as precious metals recovery and refining. The plant has a daily capacity of 7,200 tonnes of ore, and has been expanded four times since it opened in 1988. Gold was solidified as the company’s priority when it acquired Goldex in 1993, the owner of the largest unexploited gold deposit in Quebec. This was followed by the purchase of the Lapa gold deposit in 2000, and, in 2005, a gold deposit in northern Finland which would become the Kittilä mine. The Pinos Altos project in Mexico was added to the portfolio in 2006, and in 2007 the purchase of Cumberland Resources gave Agnico Eagle 100% control of the Meadowbank gold project in Nunavut, Canada.
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“The company was formed in 1957 as Agnico Mines, taking its name from the chemical symbols for silver (Ag), nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co)”
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Goldex is an underground mine just outside Val-d’Or, Quebec. It started production in 2008 with an estimated mine life of 10 years, but new zones are being developed for another eight years of production at about 118,000 ounces of gold per year. The Deep 1 project achieved commercial production on 1 July 2017. Goldex is unique because of its partnership with the Quebec government in the restoration of the nearby abandoned Manitou mine tailings site. The tailings from the Goldex mine are sent through a 25km long pipeline to the Manitou site where they neutralize the acidic waters in the area, the result of years of poorly confined tailings generated between 1942 and 1979. Not only do the Goldex tailings neutralize and help rehabilitate the site, the system eliminates the need for a tailings pond at the Goldex site itself. Agnico Eagle acquired the Akasaba West gold-copper deposit in 2014. Less than 30km from Goldex, the deposit could create flexibility and synergies for the company's operations in the Abitibi region by using extra milling capacity at both Goldex and LaRonde, while reducing overall unit costs. The public hearing process has been completed at Akasaba West, and permitting activities are expected to continue through early 2018. Mining is expected to begin on the project in 2020. The Lapa underground mine is also located in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, just 11km east of LaRonde and 49km west of the Goldex property. One of Agnico Eagle’s smallest but highest grade mines, Lapa has gold grades almost twice as rich as the company’s average, but
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has now reached the end of its mine life. The LaRonde mine has assumed responsibilities for the management and administration of the Lapa mine, and progressive transfers of Agnico Eagle personnel from Lapa are underway throughout the company. Ore from the LaRonde Zone 5 development project will be treated at the Lapa circuit, which will become available after the closure. Another mine reaching the end of its life is Meadowbank, which Agnico Eagle acquired in 2007 with the purchase of Cumberland Resources. The Meadowbank open-pit gold mine in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut – approximately 300 km west of Hudson Bay and 110 km by road north of Baker Lake – is Agnico Eagle’s first Low Arctic mine. The mine became the company’s largest gold producer, achieving commercial production in March 2010 and producing its two millionth ounce of gold in 2015. Agnico Eagle has approved the Amaruq satellite deposit at Meadowbank for development pending the receipt of the required permits, which are currently expected to be received in the third quarter of 2018. Production at Amaruq is forecast to begin in the third quarter of 2019. The company is exploring options to extend production at Meadowbank into 2019 to bridge any gap between its closure and the commencement of production at Amaruq. The Meliadine mine development, also in Nunavut, has one of Agnico Eagle’s largest mineral resources with reserve grades more than three times the company average. After receipt of the final permit in May 2016, the company approved construction of the Meliadine project in February 2017. Operations are expected to begin in the third quarter of 2019.
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“The tailings from the Goldex mine are sent through a 25km long pipeline to the Manitou site where they neutralize the acidic waters in the area”
Canadian Malartic, 25km west of Val-d’Or in Quebec, is now the largest operating gold mine in Canada, and one of the world’s largest pure gold producing mines. Osisko Mining built a large open-pit mine there and began commercial production in May 2011. In June 2014, Agnico Eagle and Yamana Gold each acquired a 50 per cent share of Osisko, creating the Canadian Malartic General Partnership and Canadian Malartic Corporation to operate the mine. The 55,000-tonnes a day open pit mine produced a record 585,029 ounces of gold in 2016, with another 600,000 ounces expected in 2017. This deal also involved a number of exploration properties, but in December last year, Yamana agreed to sell its 50 per cent interest in them to Agnico Eagle for US$162 million. The biggest assets involved are the Kirkland Lake project in northeastern Ontario and the Hammond Reef Gold project, outside of Atikokan in northwestern Ontario. The transaction does not affect
the Canadian Malartic mine and related assets (including Odyssey, East Malartic, Midway and East Amphi), which will continue to be jointly owned and operated through the Canadian Malartic Corporation. Key deposits in the Kirkland Lake area include: Upper Beaver, Anoki and McBean, Amalgamated Kirkland and Upper Canada. Hammond Reef is an advanced stage gold project covering approximately 31,145 hectares with well defined mineral resources. "The purchase of the CMC asset portfolio enhances our longer-term development pipeline, and provides us with potential production growth post our current mine buildout in Nunavut," said Sean Boyd, Agnico Eagle's Chief Executive Officer. "The Kirkland Lake property package enhances our current mineral reserves and offers nearterm exploration upside, while the Hammond Reef project provides good optionality to a potential rise in the gold price." World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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“The company is exploring options to extend production at Meadowbank into 2019 to bridge any gap between its closure and the commencement of production at Amaruq”
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The Kittilä mine in northern Finland is the largest primary gold producer in Europe, and hosts the company's largest mineral reserves. Located in the Lapland region, approximately 900km north of Helsinki and 150km north of the Arctic Circle, it is also the company’s longest-life mine, with a mine life estimated through 2034. Kittilä achieved commercial production on 1 May 2009, becoming Agnico Eagle’s first mine to open outside Canada. The orebodies were initially surface mined from two open pits – Suuri (from 2008) and Roura (2010) – with underground operations added in October 2010. Since open-pit mining was completed in 2012, Kittilä has been an underground-only operation. In 2015, a new sub-parallel zone of mineralization – known as the Sisar Zone – was discovered by exploration drilling from the underground ramp being driven northward. In 2017, the company budgeted around $10.0 million for 40,000 metres of exploration drilling and 8,000 metres of conversion drilling at Kittilä. Drilling is ongoing to further evaluate the Sisar Zone, where mineralization has now been outlined between 775 and 1,910 metres below surface. The aim of the deep drilling program is to expand the mineral resources to the north of the current mine plan and demonstrate the economic potential of the Sisar Zone, which could potentially provide an additional source of underground ore to the Kittilä mill with relatively little additional underground development.
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“Kittilä achieved commercial production on 1 May 2009, becoming Agnico Eagle’s first mine to open outside Canada”
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In 2006, Agnico Eagle acquired the Pinos Altos project in Chihuahua State, in the mountainous region of northern Mexico, 220 km west of Chihuahua itself. It is an open-pit and underground mining operation containing substantial reserves of gold and silver. Pinos Altos poured its first gold in July 2009 and achieved commercial production in November of that year, while underground mining began in the late spring of 2010. Shaft-sinking began at Pinos Altos in 2012 to increase the underground design capacity to 6,000 tonnes/day. Completion and commissioning of the shaft project was achieved in July 2016. The nearby Creston Mascota satellite operation was built in 2010 as a stand-alone pit and heap leach operation. It poured its first gold in December 2010, and achieved commercial production on 1 March 2011. Pinos Altos had proven and probable reserves containing 1.4 million ounces of gold and 38.1 million ounces of silver as of 31 December 2016, while Creston Mascota had reserves containing 102,000 ounces of gold and 909,000 ounces of silver. Pinos Altos expected to produce 170,000 ounces of gold in 2017, and to average 175,000 ounces of gold per year from 2018 to 2019. Creston Mascota expected to pour 40,000 ounces of gold in 2017, 30,000 ounces of gold in 2018, and 5,000 ounces of gold in 2019 when it is expected to complete operations.
Agnico Eagle continues to evaluate the sequencing of additional satellite zones, which could provide additional ore to the Pinos Altos complex. Drilling data is being incorporated into preliminary studies along with metallurgical testing and geotechnical data in order to optimize the development potential of remaining satellite resources. Further drilling was carried out in 2017 to evaluate this potential. At the Sinter deposit, final permitting activities are underway, and a potential production decision could be announced with the 2017 year-end results. Elsewhere, additional drilling is planned to further evaluate the underground potential at Cubiro, and surface potential at Reyna de Plata. In 2017, the company planned 34,000 metres of exploration drilling and 2,000 metres of conversion drilling at Pinos Altos, including Creston Mascota and Madrono. Madrono is a recently acquired prospect surrounded by the Pinos Altos mine property, a mere half a kilometre from the Creston Mascota pit and the Bravo Zone. Previous mining in this area included small-scale bonanza production from underground mine development on three levels in the 1930s. Mapping and sampling of historical mine workings quickly identified high-potential targets. Agnico Eagle is now undertaking a first campaign of drilling on the Madrono prospect, which includes at least three gold-silver veins: Madrono, Santa Martha and La Curva. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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In November 2011, Agnico Eagle acquired the La India property from Grayd Resource Corporation and within 22 months had completed its design, permitting, construction and start-up. Mining began in September 2013, with initial leaching the following month. The first gold from La India was poured on 20 November 2013 and commercial production was officially achieved in February 2014. The mine has now reached its design capacity, with 100,000 ounces of gold production expected in 2017 and a mine life of approximately six more years, although studies are underway to look at potential expansion options. The La India mine is located approximately 200km east of Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico. The property includes the La India mine site, the Tarachi gold resource and several other prospective exploration targets, situated in the prolific Mulatos gold belt. The Pinos Altos and Creston Mascota mine complex is approximately 70km southeast of La India, providing operating synergy between the two properties.
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In 2017, the company planned a program for 21,000 metres of exploration drilling and 5,000 metres of conversion drilling at La India. A second phase of drilling has commenced under the Main Zone to evaluate the potential to extend mineral reserves and mineral resources below the current pit design.
“The 2.2 kilometre deep Penna Shaft at Agnico Eagle’s LaRonde mine is the deepest single-lift shaft in the western hemisphere”
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“Pinos Altos poured its first gold in July 2009 and achieved commercial production in November of that year, while underground mining began in the late spring of 2010”
Agnico Eagle’s strategy is based on building a growing, high-quality, low risk, sustainable business which delivers on its performance and growth expectations. This also involves maintaining a high quality project pipeline to replenish mineral reserves and production. The company is also committed to providing economic development opportunities in its host communities and countries, seeking, wherever possible, to procure goods and services from qualified local businesses to share the benefits of mining with its partners, and to create value for its shareholders while operating in a safe, and socially and environmentally responsible manner.
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Mining is an uncertain business, but one thing about it is inevitable. Minerals become harder to find and more difficult to extract as time goes on. It’s like low hanging fruit, upside down. “Mining is getting deeper all the time,” says Rune Lindhjem, a product manager with Devico who works with clients to help optimize their drilling programs. “When you start mining you start at the surface but as you exhaust the resources you have to go deeper.” Every metre drilled adds time and cost to the operation, but the development of directional core drilling and sidetracking/branching has made a huge contribution to accuracy and efficiency, saving the cost, effort and uncertainty involved in drilling multiple single holes. Accuracy is a significant challenge in drilling, as Lindhjem explains. “When you drill a hole in the ground, a lot can happen as you get deeper,” he says. “There will always be what we call ‘natural deviation’. It can be because of differences in the hardness of the rock, or wear of the drilling equipment. Whether you’re drilling slowly or pushing hard can also make a difference. It’s virtually impossible to drill a straight hole, and the deeper you go, the more variation you get.” When miners began to use borehole survey tools on a regular basis they discovered that most of their holes ended up a long way from where they were planned. Geologists dreamed of steering the borehole to hit precise targets. Then Viktor Tokle invented a steerable core barrel in the 1980s and formed Devico in 1988 to bring it to market. In 2000 Devico launched the DeviDrill wireline system, the most significant improvement in the development of the technology. The company also developed its own suite of borehole survey tools, which have added to the global
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success of the company. Headquartered in Norway, Devico is now the global market leader in directional coring services. Its highly trained engineers work together with the drilling contractor to ensure that the operation runs smoothly and efficiently. They also work with the project geologists to prepare and optimize drilling plans, suggesting the depth at which directional drilling should be started, for instance, and calculating how long a correction needs to be to redirect the hole towards the target. The DeviDrill is a steerable wireline core barrel. Using a normal drill string it is fully compatible with the N-size wireline system, eliminating the need for additional water pumps, drill strings or drill rig. Devico’s survey tools are also an integrated part of the package, measuring the trajectory as the hole is progressing. Devico technology makes it possible to control borehole deviation and steer the hole accurately towards the target, while collecting core samples at the same time. To put it simply, when you’re drilling a hole, it helps to know where you’re going, and when you find something, it helps to know exactly where you found it. “There are many types of instruments,” explains Lindhjem, “but the most common are types of compass, like a magnetometer or a magnetic sensor to detect the horizontal direction of the hole. They also use inclinometers that use gravity to detect inclination. By stopping every few metres and checking the direction and the inclination you can calculate your coordinates and make sure you hit your target.”
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Devico has mining customers all over the world, but one, in particular, has used its services continuously for a very long time. Agnico Eagle’s Kittilä mine is located in the Lapland region of northern Finland, approximately 900 kilometres north of Helsinki and 150km north of the Arctic Circle. It’s cold up there. To put its latitude in perspective, Kittilä is also 150km north of Rovaniemi, which is recognised worldwide as the official home of Santa Claus. The cold has been one of the challenges of the project. Before the DeviDrill is run down the borehole it is normal practice to do a water test to verify that everything is working properly. The Devico engineers in Kittilä have successfully developed new procedures for winter testing, to avoid the water freezing inside the DeviDrill before it goes into the borehole. Kittilä is a long life mine. Exploration in the area began in 1986 and the mine achieved commercial production on 1 May 2009, becoming Agnico Eagle's first mine to
“With natural deviation, if you drill a 1000 metre hole you could end up 100 or 200 metres to the side. With directional drilling you can aim at a target well within 10 metres”
open outside of Canada. It is now the largest primary gold producer in Europe, but since open-pit mining was completed in 2012, Kittilä has been an underground-only operation, with a mine life estimated through to 2034. Devico started working in Kittilä in March 2009, and is still there now – an unusually long-term association in the industry. “We saved them a lot of drilling at Kittilä,” said Lindhjem. “Back in 2010 they drilled 19 mother holes. We did our directional drilling at various depths from those, and completed 58 branch holes. It was calculated that if all the holes had been drilled from the surface it would have required 81 kilometres of drilling. It ended up being 50 kilometres, so we saved 31 kilometres of drilling. That reduced the drilling cost by about 25 per cent or so, not to mention the time savings.” The cost of drilling is the most obvious benefit, but there are other savings, too. “You save on drilling but you also save on core handling and logging,” said Lindhjem. “The geologists always want to log the core. If you’re drilling from the surface and your target is at 1000 metres, you’re not going to find very much in that first 1000 metres, but you have to move the drill to a new site and retrieve the core as you go along, so there’s a lot of core handling and logging to be saved by using directional drilling from the 600-700 metre level.” Sidetracking – starting a new hole from inside a mother hole – enables metres to be saved and targets to be hit more accurately. “With natural deviation,” said Lindhjem, “if you drill a 1000 metre hole you could end up 100 or 200 metres to the side. With directional drilling you can aim at a target well within 10 metres. You also want to hit the target at different points. You want to hit it in a grid, based on your models. That’s an option you get with directional drilling. We also collect core samples during the steering process, so that provides a complete record of the geology.” Core drilling for minerals typically involves drilling long sections in bedrock before reaching the ore deposit. As natural deviation changes the drill path, the value of the information gained from the borehole is reduced. The DeviDrill has been proved to work well in both igneous and sedimentary rocks, however, so directional core drilling offers the option to drill truly, when mining deeply.
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ENAEX THINKING BIG FOR THE FUTURE OF MINING After ninety seven years in the explosives industry, Enaex is one of the leading providers of rock fragmentation services to international mining companies, focusing on safety and productivity to provide value and sustainability in mining operations.
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espite the global economic slowdown and a decline in performance in the mining industry in particular, Enaex recorded US$691.7 million in revenue and US$85.3 million in profit in 2016, representing 9 per cent and 18 per cent growth respectively, compared to the prior year. Enaex is a subsidiary of the Sigdo Koppers Group, a Chilean conglomerate active in the engineering and construction sectors, and the distribution of heavy machinery and agricultural equipment, as well as mining. Enaex was founded in November 1920 as Compañía de Explosivos de Chile, but renamed Empresa Nacional de Explosivos when the Chilean government took control of the company in 1972 through the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO). The name was shortened
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and further afield, including Mexico, USA and Australia. Enaex also supplies rock fragmentation and blasting services in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, México and USA where it has a wide network of service plants at its customers’ mine sites. The company has contracts with a large portfolio of important clients including BHP, Anglo American, Codelco and Antofagasta Minerals among others, offering complete blasting engineering services from raw materials supply to full service blasting (down the hole).
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Over the last few years, Enaex has developed an international growth plan to expand its global presence and maximize its ability to provide innovative solutions with cutting-edge technology. Elsewhere in South America, Enaex Colombia SAS has a high-tech packaged emulsions plant which has been in operation since 2010. Enaex Argentina SARL opened a bulk emulsions plant in 2014 and in Peru, Enaex acquired an 80% interest in the local company, now renamed Enaex Peru, which holds an ammonium nitrate supply contract for Minera Antamina, Peru's largest and one of the world's most important open-pit mines and also a full package service contract for Mina Constancia. Finally, the company strengthened its presence in Brazil in 2015, acquiring a 100% interest in the country's largest manufacturer and distributor of civil explosives and initiation systems, IBQ Industrias Químicas (now called Enaex Britanite).
to Enaex in 1989 and then in 1991 Enaex became a publicly held corporation. The company has become the world's third largest producer of low-density ammonium nitrate, and the largest in Latin America. In Chile, the company owns the world's largest ammonium nitrate production in the Prillex América plant which has a nominal capacity of 850 thousand tons a year. The ammonium nitrate is sold as a raw material for onsite manufacturing of blasting agents. Enaex also produces a large range of high explosives— including different types of dynamite, boosters, cartridge emulsions and detonators—at the Río Loa plant, which are used in blasting for open-pit and underground mining as well as small- and medium-scale mining operations. Its products are sold directly to clients within South America
In June 2015, Enaex began to expand beyond Latin America, acquiring a 91% interest in the French company Davey Bickford, a world leader in the manufacture of electronic detonators and initiation systems, with subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, Chile, the United States, Mexico and Peru. The 2015 acquisitions helped the company achieve some of the first goals in its 2015-2020 strategic plan, like regional leadership and increased global presence. In 2016 it earned important recognition for strong leadership in innovation and development, which has focused on continuously improving process productivity with an emphasis on meeting client needs. With the 2015 acquisitions, the company also benefited from diversification and vertical integration of its operations, with greater presence in other mining markets within the region and technological markets for initiation systems around the world. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Innovation
Innovation has been a cornerstone of the company’s growth, and is fundamental to its future strategy. “Innovation is one of our strategic pillars and has been implemented as a systematic practice within the organization,” said Chairman, Juan Eduardo Errázuriz Ossa. “It is a fundamental tool for contributing to our clients' productivity and generating value in their operations. We believe that innovation is essential as the industry faces problems that require timely solutions and non-traditional insights.” One its main innovations is Milodón®, a specialized manufacturing truck able to load up to 28 tons of explosives on site, designed for the production of ammonium nitrate/ fuel oils (ANFOs) and pumpable and pourable heavy ANFOs for rock blasting applications in open-pit mine sites. Milodón provides large productive advantages compared to the current alternatives available in the market. The blasting agent Vertex® is a recent addition, a robust explosive mixture, effective and easy to use. Its greater explosive power improves the fragmentation of rock and
allows the use of wider meshes, which reduces consumption of explosives and the number of holes that need to be drilled. Pirex® is an Enaex development that delays the exothermic reaction with reactive minerals, without affecting fragmentation. This maximizes safety and optimizes borehole loading and blasting operations. The addition of Davey Bickford broadens Enaex's ability to innovate and develop new blasting solutions. In order to increase global capacity, the company implemented its first automatic assembly machine for electronic detonators in 2016. It also launched a ‘Big Data’ innovation project to optimize client operations and has focused on integrating Latin American subsidiary teams with the Enaex Group. As the Daveytronic® brand celebrates 20 years in the market, Davey Bickford has launched its new solution designed for high volume blasting with intelligent reportability: Daveytronic® Evolution. This is a high tech digital blasting system that increases productivity with next generation safety features.
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Enaex also created an innovation synergy group among its subsidiaries, which held global meetings in Santiago, Salt Lake City, Paris and Brisbane. One objective of these meetings was to create a road map to provide a thorough understanding of the problems facing clients around the world. As a result of its corporate efforts to pursue innovation, The Most Innovative Companies Chile Ranking, carried out every year by the ESE Business School of the Universidad de Los Andes in association with La Tercera newspaper, recognized Enaex as the most innovative company within the national mining sector in both 2015 and 2016. Automation Automation has become de rigueur in some industries, particularly in manufacturing. With their emphasis always on safety first, followed by productivity, mining customers have also started to demand more automation from their suppliers. Enaex has therefore taken innovation to the next level with two new projects, Mine-iTruck® and RoboMiner®. RoboMiner is a tele-operated robot that, in its first phase of development, will have the capacity to monitor temperature, measure topography and record in real time with 3D vision. It’s being developed so that by 2018 it should be able to manipulate objects, allowing the remote control of priming
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and anchoring activities in the open-pit mine blasting process and in underground mine applications. RoboMiner is equipped with 3D vision to provide feedback on operations using stereoscopic cameras with depth perception, and also has sensors for temperature and humidity measurement. It also carries a gas meter for the measurement of gases in the environment in post-blasting applications, including oxygen, methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and other gases. The Mine-iTruck® is a 20-ton tele-operated mobile manufacturing truck, specially designed for the manufacture of heavy ANFOs and gasified products for open-pit mine blasting, at the mine site itself. Like the RoboMiner, the Mine iTruck offers remote control handling via wireless networks and the assistance of peripheral cameras that provide feedback to the remote operator. Both devices have an antenna system that allows for wireless connectivity supporting multiple radio configurations, thus providing greater flexibility and ensuring a wide range of coverage, while achieving compatibility with the existing mine communications infrastructure.
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“These projects were specially created to enhance mining operations, by taking care of our greatest asset, our people”
The Mine-iTruck and the RoboMiner will make a huge contribution to mine safety by removing operators from the blasting area to a remote, safe and comfortable control station. They also offer other benefits, by making it possible to exploit mining resources that cannot be recovered using traditional operations. Productivity can also be improved through more flexible and interconnected operations and the possibility of night-time working. "These projects were specially created to enhance mining operations, by taking care of our greatest asset, our people,” said Juan Andrés Errázuriz, CEO of the Enaex Group, at the launch event in September. “Through advanced technology, these solutions will make resources available that are now inaccessible, safely and economically. Through the development of this type of project, Enaex wants to contribute in the conversion of Chile from a mineral exporting country to an exporter of innovative technology for the mining industry." The projects were developed by Enaex in conjunction with leading international institutions such as the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), ASI Robots, Thecne, and SK Godelius. Support for research and development was provided by the Chilean Ministry of Mining and CORFO, the Chilean economic development agency. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Awards
Enaex is no stranger to awards, earning important recognition in the first half of 2016 when Principal Financial Group and First People Consulting recognized its commitment to the future and financial wellbeing of its employees with its Best Employee Financial Future award. In the second half of the year, Enaex became part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Chile (DJSI Chile), created by Santiago Exchange, S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM. This was followed by the Most Innovative Companies in Chile award (Mining Services category) for the second year in a row, and to top it all, in August last year the Chilean Federation of Industry (SOFOFA) named the company 2016 Best National Supplier of the mining industry, one of its most important national accolades.
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“We have invested a lot in research and development to generate new products and solutions that help lower the total cost of mining”
"For our company it is very significant to be recognized by our own clients, since we have made a sustained effort to better understand the needs of mining companies and apply our talent to offer them the best solutions,” said Edmundo Jiménez, vice president of Enaex Servicios SA. “We have invested a lot in research and development to generate new products and solutions that help lower the total cost of mining. We know that our results depend on the success of our clients." Enaex is known for its innovation, sustainability, exceptional quality, safety and passion for service. These values are key to satisfying client needs and providing on-site solutions. “Our new corporate vision focuses on thinking big,” concluded Chairman, Juan Eduardo Errázuriz Ossa. “We continue to make progress on the ambitious commitments that define Enaex's current and future roles, with services that offer comprehensive solutions while developing a business that adapts to industry changes quickly and efficiently.”
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Azerbaijan’s Non-Ferrous Metal Industry at a New Stage of Development Azerbaijan is known throughout the world as an oil and gas country. In order to provide steady and sustainable development of the country, the government has diversified its economy, supporting the development of a non-oil sector, and creating favourable conditions for local and foreign investors. One of the most promising areas in this non-oil sector is, namely, a mining industry. Therefore, AzerGold Closed Joint-Stock Company (AzerGold) was established according to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev dated February 11, 2015. The company’s activity covers the study, exploration, development and management of non-ferrous metal ore deposits located in the territory of Azerbaijan. In a short time, AzerGold has addressed organizational issues and started operating. At the moment, AzerGold is actively operating its own Chovdar gold and silver mine in Dashkasan district, in the west of Azerbaijan.Mineral extraction by the method of oxide – open pit mining started in 2016 after extensive construction and repair works. It is planned to extract about 500,000 ounces of gold and silver in total within the scope of oxide phase to be continued until 2021. Having successfully passed the procedures of KYC (Know Your Customer) and Due Diligence, AzerGold cooperates with a renowned Swiss company Argor-Heraeus SA on gold refining. In the first year of the mine operation – during April-December of 2017, the export of gold and silver has contributed approximately US$77,340,000 to Azerbaijan’s economy, which has brought AzerGold to a leading position in non-oil exportation business. At the same time, AzerGold is carrying out active exploration works on other mine sites. When referring to non-ferrous metals in Azerbaijan, we must first mention the Filizchay polymetallic deposit located in Balakan district, in the north of the country, which is considered the “pearl” and the biggest deposit of the region and the second in Europe. The deposit has more than 120 million tons of precious and non-ferrous ore reserves such as copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. The scoping study of Filizchay deposit is under preparation by world-known SRK Consulting company and is expected to be ready by April 2018. The next steps for exploitation will be defined by this study.
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The preliminary drilling works in another deposit – Mazimchay will be finalized next year and its reserves will be evaluated accordingly. Due to the fact that the Mazimchay deposit is located near Filizchay, leads to the increase of reserves of the latter and the economical efficiency of both projects. Another promising mine is Ortakand-Khanagha located in the southern part of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and distinguished with detection of particular gold, complex copper-porphyry, epithermal sulphide ores. Since the results of geophysical studies made by the method of electro and magnetic exploration are very reassuring at the moment, drilling works are expected to be carried out at the mine in the near future. If it is determined that the amount of reserves estimated after drilling works is cost efficient according to above-mentioned results, the preparation of mining works, feasibility study and implementation of construction works, as well as the operation of the mine in 2021 are to commence. Daghkasaman mine located in the north-west of Azerbaijan is considered a promising area in terms of detection of gold, gold-polymetallic deposits. It is planned to undertake geological surveys at this mine in 2022. There are three copper-porphyry deposits in Garadagh mine located in Shamkir district near Daghkasaman. Over recent years, the economical efficiency of those deposits has been achieved by increases in the copper price in the world market. Towards the center of the country, Kurakchay mine, located in the territory of Goygol district has been always considered a promising area due to the presence of splattered gold deposits, several occurrences and mineralization points. This mine is scheduled to be explored again according to requirements of international standards. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of the most significant areas of AzerGold’s policy. Ninety per cent of the people working at Chovdar mine represent neighbourhood communities which is an important aspect of the company’s social policy. Regular meetings are organized with local communities and their needs are studied within the frame of CSR. Other social support projects are being and will be performed to improve the social welfare of local communities. AzerGold pays considerable attention to
environmental protection. More than 6,000 trees and shrubs have been planted in an aera of more than 10 ha within the scope of tree-planting events held in Chovdar mine during a year. Generally, the five-year strategic development plan of AzerGold includes the development of mining production, exploration of ore deposits, strengthening of human resources, social responsibility and environmental protection, establishing international co-operation and other targets. Azerbaijan is rapidly developing due to the economic reforms implemented in the country, socio-political and socio-economic stability, as well as the conducive environment created for foreign investors. The favourable conditions provided in the country, the application of technologies and innovation, the exchange of experience, as well as co-operation with foreign and local partners, all ensure the dynamic development of the young AzerGold. The precious-metal-rich deposits of Azerbaijan are indicative of great potential. Establishing co-operation with foreign investors will be one of AzerGold’s priority areas, in order to realize its potential at the next stage of development. AzerGold is open to co-operation. The company’s representatives regularly attend events of international importance, developing new business relationships, informing potential partners in detail on perspectives of deposits existing in Azerbaijan, and sharing best practices extensively. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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RIO TINTO VALUE OVER VOLUME
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At a time when the mining industry’s costs are rising and productivity is struggling, shareholder returns require strategic investment and an element of discipline. Rio Tinto has outperformed its peers with its world-class assets and has some quality growth projects in the pipeline.
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apital investment in mining infrastructure has been somewhat stagnant of late, with new mines as rare as hen’s teeth. Much more common has been the disposal of non-core assets and the mothballing of marginal ones. There were reasons to be cheerful, therefore, when Rio Tinto officially opened its Silvergrass iron ore mine in Western Australia at the end of August. The US$338 million project is the 16th mine in Rio Tinto’s world-class iron ore operations in the Pilbara region and will produce
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low-phosphorous ore crucial to maintaining its premium Pilbara Blend product. “Silvergrass is a great example of our value-over-volume approach in action, as the mine will deliver the high-quality, low-cost ore used to maintain the world-class premium Pilbara Blend product our customers love so much,” said Rio Tinto chief executive J-S Jacques. “Silvergrass is a further demonstration of our longstanding commitment to the Pilbara region in Western Australia where we’ve invested more than US$20
billion over the past decade.” The brownfields expansion project will lower mine operating costs as a result of the construction of a ninekilometre conveyor system to replace traditional road haulage routes linking Silvergrass to the existing processing plant at Nammuldi. More than 500 jobs, as well as opportunities for indigenous contracting, were created during the construction of the mine. Contracts worth more than $180 million were awarded during the construction phase, including contracts to Western Australian company Decmil and Perth headquartered company RCR Resources. In May this year Rio Tinto approved an investment of $30.9 million to complete the project feasibility study on its Koodaideri iron ore deposit
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“Silvergrass is a great example of our valueover-volume approach in action, as the mine will deliver the high-quality, low-cost ore used to maintain the world-class premium Pilbara Blend product our customers love so much”
in the Pilbara, which could be its next major mining development in Western Australia. “The Koodaideri development will require an expected 1600 construction jobs and a further 600 operational staff if approved,” said Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Chris Salisbury. “We remain firmly focused on our value over volume strategy and maximising returns through enhanced productivity. We are examining the Koodaideri project as an option to help us maintain our low cost competitive position and assist in maintaining the Pilbara Blend product quality.” The feasibility study will focus on obtaining necessary consent and permits, increasing the company’s understanding of the orebody and technical elements, and providing the data necessary to validate the project. Pre-feasibility study information for the project was released in an investor seminar in November 2016, which included a 40Mtpa capacity dry crushing and screening plant, non-process infrastructure, product stockyards, rail loop and load-out and a 170 kilometre rail link to the main line. It suggested a capital requirement of approximately US$2.2 billion, with potential for construction to commence in 2019. The final decision on the progression of the Koodaideri iron ore development will follow the completion of the feasibility study and subsequent review by the Rio Tinto investment committee and board.
Aluminium
Also in Australia, Rio Tinto is expanding in Queensland, too, continuing its 50 year history of operations in Cape York with a US$2.6 billion investment to build a mine and port to expand production from one of the world’s premier bauxite deposits. Rio Tinto (originally as Comalco) has mined and shipped bauxite from Weipa on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Queensland since 1963, but the original reserves are gradually being depleted and with continued demand for bauxite, the business has identified significant reserves south of the Embley River. The Weipa operations consist of two continuous mining operations at East Weipa and Andoom, two beneficiation plants, 19 kilometres of railway to transport mined bauxite to the port area, two stockpiles and two ship loaders. Rio Tinto also owns and operates two diesel engine power stations, which supply the mine, Weipa town and the neighbouring community of Napranum. A key milestone for the future of the Weipa operations was reached with the Rio Tinto Board approving funding for the Amrun project in late 2015. The project includes the construction of a range of infrastructure including a processing plant and port near Boyd Bay, a dam, tailings storage facility, roads and a ferry terminal on the Hey River to transport workers from Weipa to the mine. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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Construction on the project is well under way with first shipment planned for the first half of 2019. In June this year Rio awarded an A$100 million contract to Aggreko Australia Pacific to build and operate a new 20MW power station at the Amrun bauxite project. A team of more than 20 Aggreko employees including engineers, project managers and technicians will come together to deliver the installation by December 2017 with go-live set for April 2018. Once operational, Amrun will replace production from Rio Tinto’s existing East Weipa mine and increase annual bauxite exports. Planned initial output is 22.8 million tonnes per year with a range of options for future expansions up to 50 million tonnes per year. Rio Tinto’s existing bauxite operations have hardly been slacking of late, however, with record bauxite ore production of 12.9 million metric tons in the second quarter of 2017. The record output was a 7 per cent increase year-on-year, and a 14 per cent increase quarter-on-quarter. Total production for the first half of 2017 was 24.2 million metric tons, a four-
per cent increase year-on-year. Rio Tinto attributes the record production total to corresponding record production at its Gove and Weipa operations, with Gove besting Q2 2016 production by 27 per cent and Weipa producing four per cent more bauxite year-on-year. Debottlenecking at Gove and recovery from severe weather at Weipa are credited with buoying production in the quarter and half year.
“A key milestone for the future of the Weipa operations was reached with the Rio Tinto Board approving funding for the Amrun project in late 2015”
While some product is shipped to international customers, the majority of Weipa bauxite is supplied to the Queensland Alumina Limited and Rio Tinto Aluminium Yarwun refineries, both located near Gladstone on the central Queensland coast. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market. The Gove Operation is located on the Gove Peninsula in North East Arnhem land in the Northern Territory. It is situated on extensive deposits of high grade bauxite, a burnished red ore with high aluminium oxide content. Bauxite mining began there in 1970 to supply the export market.
Diamonds
While we’re in Australia, it’s worth mentioning that Rio Tinto owns and operates the Argyle diamond mine in the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of diamonds and the world's largest supplier of natural coloured diamonds, including World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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the highly coveted rare pink diamonds. The Argyle diamond deposit, located in the AK1 pipe, was mined using conventional alluvial and open pit mining from 1983 to 2013. Over this period more than 800 million carats of diamonds were mined. In 2013 a new era of underground mining of the AK1 pit took over to access the pipe at further depth. Block cave mining techniques – where the ore body is undercut, allowing it to break up and ‘cave’ under its own weight – are now being employed to extend the life of the Argyle mine until at least 2020. The block cave is expected to generate on average 20 million carats per year. The Argyle underground mine is a challenge both in size and complexity. There are around 40 kilometres of tunnels. The main thoroughfares in the underground network are four tunnels – two to carry vehicles, one for ventilation and one for moving ore. There are two large underground crushers and conveyor belts transport the ore from deep in the mine to the surface. When Argyle was first established, it became apparent that purposedesigned processing machinery would be needed to recover and sort the high volume of characteristically small stones produced by the mine. This included the development of sophisticated X-ray sorting technology to assist in the efficient identification and collection of the small diamonds. Today, the Argyle processing plant is one of the most efficient in the world. It is capable of processing up to 11 million tonnes of ore per annum operating 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. Argyle produces diamonds in a range of colours, including white, champagne and pink gems. The majority of Argyle’s diamonds are sold as “rough” or uncut diamonds. These are sorted and prepared for international sale by Rio Tinto’s sales and marketing team in Antwerp, Belgium. The majority of customers are Indian based companies and the Indian cutting industry has been an important platform for developing the market for the small, coloured diamonds that characterize the Argyle production. Rio Tinto also owns a 60 per cent interest in, and operates, the Diavik
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Diamond Mine in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, 220km south of the Arctic Circle. The design, construction and operation of the Diavik mine is an epic saga of success on a grand scale in the most forbidding of places. Diavik commenced production in 2003 and has an annual production of some 6-7 million carats of predominantly large, white gem-quality diamonds. It is expected to continue to produce high quality gems to 2023 and potentially beyond. Rio Tinto now has a new joint venture partner in the Diavik mine, as Dominion Diamonds recently sold
its 40 per cent share to Washington Companies. Also in Canada, Rio Tinto has become involved in a joint venture with Shore Gold, which acquired from Newmont Canada in June, all of Newmont's participating interest in the Fort à la Corne joint venture, resulting in Shore owning 100% of the Star-Orion South Diamond Project. Shore concurrently entered into an option to joint venture with Rio Tinto Exploration Canada, granting RTEC an option to earn up to a 60% interest in the project on the terms and conditions contained in the option agreement.
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Copper
Although Rio Tinto lists many of its assets in Australia and Canada, its copper interests are focused elsewhere, particularly in Mongolia. One of the most exciting developments in copper and gold mining for several decades, Oyu Tolgoi contains reserves and resources that make it one of the world’s largest known copper and gold deposits. The project is expected to be a significant contributor to Mongolia’s economic development. Situated in the southern Gobi desert of Mongolia, approximately 550 kilometres south of the capital Ulaanbaatar, and 80 kilometres north of the Mongolia-China border, Oyu Tolgoi is jointly owned by the Government of Mongolia (34 per cent) and Turquoise Hill Resources (66 per cent, of which Rio Tinto owns 51 per cent). Since 2010, Rio Tinto has also been the manager of the Oyu Tolgoi project. After decades of exploration and drilling, the first major discoveries at Oyu Tolgoi were made in 2001, leading to several years of further exploration which revealed the impressive scale of the deposit. While exploration continues, even with the reserves currently identified, Oyu
Tolgoi is expected to operate for over 50 years. Some $6.4 billion has been invested to develop the open-pit mine, concentrator and associated infrastructure at Oyu Tolgoi, with an additional $500 million of capital costs for initial development of the underground mine. To this point, all of Oyu Tolgoi’s concentrate has been produced using ore mined from the surface using open pit mining. However, the majority of the value of Oyu Tolgoi, up to 80 per
cent, lies deep underground. In May 2015, Oyu Tolgoi’s shareholders, Rio Tinto, Turquoise Hill Resources and the Government of Mongolia, agreed upon a plan to progress the next stage of underground development, using block-caving mining techniques to extract the ore and transport it to the surface to the concentrator. Block-caving, while technically challenging, is one of the safest and most cost-effective methods of mining ore from deep below the ground.
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Fourteen kilometres of lateral tunnels have already been constructed at Oyu Tolgoi, and over time, up to 200 kilometres of tunnels, at depths of up to 1,300 metres, will be built to allow safe mining of the deepest parts of Oyu Tolgoi’s ore body. In the United States, Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Kennecott is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich orebody of the Bingham Canyon Mine. In 1989, Rio Tinto acquired the Bingham Canyon Mine and other facilities in the Salt Lake Valley. Kennecott produces copper, molybdenum, gold, silver and sulphuric acid to be shipped around the world. In Arizona, the Resolution Copper Project is a proposed world-class copper mine that is said to have the potential to supply 25 per cent of the current US annual demand for copper for 40 years. Resolution Copper is located near the town of Superior, 65 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, in an
area known as the ‘Copper Triangle’ with abundant historic mining activity. Some of the region’s mines have now closed, as their orebodies had become uneconomic, but the Resolution Copper project offers an opportunity to reinvigorate the area’s economy with an industry the state and its people know well.
Resolution Copper Mining (RCM) is a limited liability company owned 55 per cent by Resolution Copper Company, a Rio Tinto PLC subsidiary, and 45 per cent by BHP Copper, a BHP-Billiton PLC subsidiary. In late 2014 the Resolution Project passed an important milestone when legislation was passed that provides
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for an exchange of land between the company and the US Government. The Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act provides for 2,400 acres of federally-owned land above the copper deposit to be exchanged for 5,300 acres of highquality conservation and recreational land owned by Resolution Copper. By allowing the company access to this land near the deposit, Resolution Copper will be able to fully understand the deposit, and how to safely develop it. The exchange will be completed when a final environmental impact statement (EIS) is issued under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The EIS will outline mitigation plans to protect land, cultural sites, and air and water quality on property included on both sides of the exchange. Once the final EIS is released, Resolution Copper’s property will become public land, and will be managed by the Government. In South America, Rio Tinto has a 30 per cent interest in Escondida, in Chile, which is managed by BHP Billiton, giving it regular input on strategic and policy matters. The Minera Escondida copper mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert is the world’s largest copper-producing mine. In
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“Earlier this year Rio Tinto applied for exploration permits in Chile’s northern region of Arica, as the company searches globally for new deposits worthy of being developed into mines”
2012 it accounted for five per cent of global copper production and around 15 per cent of Chilean copper production. Escondida produces copper concentrate, through a flotation process of sulphide ore, and copper cathodes, using a leaching process of oxide and sulphide ore. Earlier this year Rio Tinto applied for exploration permits in Chile’s northern region of Arica, as the company searches globally for new deposits worthy of being developed into mines. The company wants to start drilling in an area at an altitude of 2,100 metres, about 58km from Arica city, close to the border with Peru and Bolivia, according to the local Spanish language newspaper El Mercurio. The so-called Palmani project aims to discover and characterize the mining potential of the area, which could eventually be developed into a mine, according to information provided by the country’s Environmental Assessment Service (SEA). Rio Tinto also has an interest in Grasberg, in the province of Papua in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines in terms of ore reserves and production. Until recently it was owned and operated by Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), a subsidiary of USbased Freeport-McMoRan Copper &
rio tinto value over volume Gold Inc. Rio Tinto has a joint venture for a 40 per cent share of production above specific levels until 2021, and 40 per cent of all production after 2021. The Indonesian government has taken a tough line on foreign owned mining assets, however, resulting in Freeport reducing its stake in the company to 49 per cent, with the government now owning the majority 51 per cent share. There is as yet no indication as to whether this will affect Rio Tinto’s interests.
Lithium
The lightest metal on Earth, lithium is in great demand as it is used in a vast array of products, most notably batteries for hybrid and electric cars. Rio Tinto Borates' Jadar project in Serbia is a significant, world-class lithium-borate resource. Rio Tinto discovered Jadar in 2004. It is a unique deposit near the town of Loznica, in Western Serbia, some 160 kilometres from its capital Belgrade. The deposit contains Jadarite, a new mineral unique to Serbia, which has not been found anywhere else in the world. Jadar has been ranked as one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. If developed, it is said to have the potential to supply more than 10% of global demand for lithium. Borates are essential building blocks for heat resistant glass, fibreglass, ceramics, fertilisers, detergents, wood preservatives and many other household and commercial products. They are used in insulation that makes buildings energyefficient, and to produce TV, computer and smartphone screens. Rio Tinto has recently elevated Jadar to become its most likely growth project, revealing that if it gets approvals and the economics support it, it will start construction in 2020 and reach first production in 2023. The company has so far spent around US$90 million on Jadar. In July this year Rio Tinto signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Serbia relating to the implementation of the Jadar Project. The MOU will enable the formation of joint working groups between the government and the company to progress the Jadar Project through the study and permitting phases. Under current plans, Jadar will
be an underground mine, with the opportunity for future expansion if demand warrants it.
“Jadar has been ranked as one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. If developed, it is said to have the potential to supply more than 10% of global demand for lithium”
At the 2017 Global Metals & Mining Conference in Barcelona in May, Rio Tinto’s chief executive J-S Jacques described his approach to delivering superior value for shareholders as being about a long-term strategy built on world-class assets; maximising cash through a value-over-volume approach; developing a highperformance culture across the Group and allocating capital with discipline. “We have world-class assets and the best balance sheet in the industry,” he concluded. “This creates a strong platform for the future.“
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AMALGAMATED MINING GROUP THE NATURAL CHOICE FOR UNDERGROUND MINING AND TUNNELLING EQUIPMENT
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Amalgamated Mining Group is determined to become the supplier of choice for every aspect of underground mining and tunnelling equipment sales, rentals, parts and repairs. Tom Flanagan, President, and Colin Elson, General Manager, tell Martin Ashcroft how they’re going about it. The concept of the one stop shop has been around a long time, long enough to be a cliché. However there isn’t a better term to describe a supplier who can provide the full range of equipment required for any type of mining or tunnelling project. Ask Tom Flanagan, President of Amalgamated Mining Group about his vision, and he’ll tell you it’s to be “the first name people think of when they need underground mining and tunnelling equipment. We’d like to be the one stop shop for sales, rentals and parts, anywhere in the world.”
“We aim to be the first name people think of when they need underground mining and tunnelling equipment. We’d like to be the one stop shop for sales, rentals and parts, anywhere in the world”
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That vision has been guiding the company’s growth since Flanagan established Amalgamated Mining Equipment Ltd (AME) in 1990. Originally conceived as a single company focused on rebuilding and refurbishing underground equipment, AME has evolved in less than 30 years into three distinct corporations servicing different but complementary aspects of the underground mining and tunnelling equipment market. Choosing the right machinery can be a complicated process. Understanding the application requirements is absolutely crucial. Is it better to buy a new machine with the latest technology or go for used equipment to save capital? How long will you need to use it? Would it make more sense to rent? Can you get parts for it quickly if it needs to be repaired? Does it need to be customized for your operation? After you have made those choices, where can you go to find what you are looking for?
Amalgamated Mining Group the natural choice for underground mining & tunelling equipment
“When you’re looking to expand into the global market you have to regionalise the business and build a base of equipment in each independent region. A global rental fleet is what we’re after”
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The Amalgamated Mining Group is based in Edmonton, in the business-friendly Canadian province of Alberta, Canada; one of the most popular jurisdictions in the world for oil and gas extraction. “We set up here because of the location of the city and its favourable environment for service industries,” says Flanagan. “It has everything you could want on the supply and services side of things. “The irony of it,” he continues with a chuckle, “is that Alberta is the only Canadian province we don’t do business in because there are no underground mining operations here. We started
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here for logistical reasons (ie; proximity to the transportation infrastructure connecting all the major underground mining hubs throughout North America). We deal in most provinces in Canada, and also throughout the United States and South America. We have equipment in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe. That’s the extent of our world reach so far. In the early days of AME, Flanagan spotted a niche in the market and began to buy new underground equipment from Caterpillar, which it converted into durable, customized underground vehicles. “The company has gone through
Amalgamated Mining Group the natural choice for underground mining & tunelling equipment
“By keeping every aspect of each purchase or rental in-house, the process is more transparent to the customer and serves to keep the equipment delivery on schedule to maximize up time”
several transformations,” says Flanagan. “We started an equipment sales division, but that soon became a sales and rental division, which is now Amalgamated Mining & Tunnelling. Then we added a parts division to back everything up.” In 2007, AME expanded the parts division, resulting in a third new company, Amalgamated Mining Services (AMS). “When we started out, our speciality was rebuilding, but then we expanded into the resourcing of parts and equipment for customers,” Flanagan summarises. “That morphed into sales and rental, which is the biggest part of our business today. We’ve always had a parts division
but we never had a dedicated parts sales force. We created AMS to service our rental and services segment that has grown exponentially over the last 8 years due to global demand.” AMS keeps a comprehensive stock of new and used spare parts to fit a wide range of equipment for all major underground mining equipment manufacturers and a full range of drilling tools (Mitsubishi, LHS, TRI-ROK, Brunner & Lay, etc). In addition, AMS carries a large stock of components (engines, transmissions, converters, axles, etc) to suit all major brands of underground mining and tunnelling equipment. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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“We have a memorandum of understanding with the two largest Caterpillar dealers in Canada”
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Amalgamated Mining Group the natural choice for underground mining & tunelling equipment
AMS represents about 15 per cent of the Group’s business, and repair and customisation around 20 per cent, with the rest being equipment sales and rental via Amalgamated Mining & Tunnelling. A glance at the web site reveals an exhaustive inventory from loaders, trucks, jumbos, bolters, drills and personnel carriers, to wheel dozers, apron feeders, buckets, truck boxes and man-baskets. AM&T has the lot. The company maintains a sales and rental fleet of between 500 – 600 underground mining specific machines in stock, but if a client cannot find what they need, it has the ability to source the item. The rental fleet includes new and used equipment and rentals are typically between 6 -18 months, according to customers’ needs, with an option to purchase. Some customers have taken as many as 40 pieces, others much fewer, depending on the size of the underground mine or tunnel and their individual needs. Most contracts are revolving rentals where AM&T will replace some units as the operation develops to give them a continuous flow of updated equipment. Any rental returns are traditionally refurbished and repaired, ready for the next rental contract. To put it all into perspective, Amalgamated Mining & Tunnelling Inc (AM&T) was formed in 1999, to focus on the sale and/or lease of new and used underground mining and tunnelling equipment. In 2007, building on the strong relationship it had developed with Caterpillar, AM&T broadened its stock with the addition of a full line of new underground Caterpillar equipment. “We have a memorandum of understanding with the two largest Caterpillar dealers here in Canada,” says Flanagan, “Finning (Canada West) and Toromont (Canada East). We purchase 30 to 40 pieces of new and certified rebuilt underground machinery from them a year, according to what our customers predict their needs will be over the next 12 months.” It’s good business for all parties as Caterpillar has the best equipment distribution and service infrastructure. World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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The Amalgamated Mining Group has supplied underground mining and tunnelling equipment to various major operations throughout the Americas and Australasia. The next expansion will be geographical, rather than new products or services. “We want to develop our international rental fleet,” says Flanagan. “We are already international in the sense that we have equipment around the world, but we are striving to be more recognized throughout the industry.” Having the right equipment in the right place is the Holy Grail of this business, as moving heavy underground mining and tunnelling machinery around the world is both time consuming and majorly expensive. The key is to have the right equipment in the right area so the customer can access it in a timely fashion. “We have two yards here in Edmonton, and one in Spokane, Washington,” says General Manager Colin Elson. “We have a yard in Western Australia as well as equipment stored at various locations around the world.” The pressure on underground operations has never been greater. The regulatory laws become tighter
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every year and the price of metals and minerals is never stable for long. To achieve the highest levels of safety and productivity, underground operators need equipment that is code compliant, cost effective and easy to maintain. Wherever the equipment is from, and wherever it’s going, the logistics process is organized in-house. “By keeping every aspect of each purchase or rental in-house, the process is more transparent to the customer and serves to keep the equipment delivery on schedule to maximize up time,” says Elson, “and this minimizes any confusion and down time. We have transported equipment by ocean from as far as Australia, Africa and Europe; also via air cargo to the extreme regions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and by road throughout all of North America and Mexico.”
Amalgamated Mining Group AM&T maintains close relationships with customers to understand and anticipate their needs. You might not expect an international business to be seasonal, but there are highs and lows throughout the year. “For example, in November and December we get an indication from customers about their future needs,” says Elson. “They might be looking to spend money that can’t be taken forward into the next year, so that will drive our business, and then their new budgets will be released in the new year, so January, February and March would be when we see the biggest spike in spending. But overall, it’s the strength of the underground mining and tunnelling industry that dictates our business.” The company sources equipment from all over the world and is building a useful contact infrastructure with underground mining and tunnelling companies. “A lot of equipment comes to us after a mine closure, for instance,” says Elson, “where we can bid on the whole asset pool. And we don’t always stick to the mobile equipment, we also look at some of the processing equipment.
the natural choice for underground mining & tunelling equipment
“If you have an orebody that you’re not 100 per cent sure is viable, you don’t have to go out and purchase the equipment right off the bat. If you rent it first, you have the option to tailor the equipment size to match the drift or tunnel dimensions”
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“Ten years ago we would have been customizing an individual piece of equipment. As we have become more of a one stop shop, we now customize fleets to meet specific customer requirements and local underground mine and tunnel regulations”
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Amalgamated Mining Group the natural choice for underground mining & tunelling equipment
“Some companies have special requirements and in those cases AME is experienced in making customised modifications to suit specific needs. “But customization has changed quite a bit,” says Flanagan. “Customization would have meant a different thing ten years ago, in that we would have been customizing an individual piece of equipment. As we have become more of a one stop shop, we now customize fleets to meet specific customer requirements and local underground mine and tunnel regulations.” One of the advantages of rental is the flexibility it brings to the operation, and that is an important factor in uncertain times. “If you have an orebody that you’re not 100 per cent sure is viable, you don’t have to go out and purchase the equipment right off the bat,” says Flanagan. “If you rent it first, you have the option to tailor the equipment size to match the drift or tunnel dimensions. For instance, if the operation starts out with 5 x 5 metre heading size, and too much dilution is encountered, the operator may decide to go with a 4 x 4 metre, or even a 3 x 3 metre heading size which would require a complete equipment fleet change out. Now the operator just needs to return the originally rented fleet and
exchange it for the appropriate size of equipment to suit. This allows the operation to continue to move forward without a costly long term investment in the wrong equipment.” There are many challenges in the underground mining and tunnelling equipment business, including market fluctuation as a result of changing commodity prices, but it’s not all bad news, as market fluctuations also help to drive the rental market. “We complain about it on the one hand,” says Flanagan, “but we’re grateful for it on the other!” Having a sound customer base located across a variety of underground mining and tunnelling geographies provides AM&T security, and this is one of the driving forces behind the next phase of Amalgamated Mining Group’s growth strategy. “Moving the equipment around is always a major challenge,” says Flanagan. “The equipment is getting larger all the time. When you’re looking to expand into the global market you have to regionalise the business and build a base of equipment in each independent region. A global rental fleet is what we’re after. That’s where we see the opportunity. We’d like to be the industry’s first choice, everywhere in the world. That’s our goal for the moment.” World Mining Magazine www.ogsmag.com
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AKG COOL CUSTOMERS AKG is a leading supplier of highperformance coolers and heat exchangers across a multitude of applications, including mining equipment and machinery, in which capacity five of its global plants have earned awards from Caterpillar’s supplier quality excellence program (SQEP) so far this year.
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ounded in Germany in 1919, AKG now operates twelve manufacturing facilities around the world. The company has an international reputation for custom quality heat exchangers, and its products serve the construction, forestry, agriculture, on-highway, compressor, material handling, industrial, off-highway, and
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mining markets, including major manufacturers of mining equipment such as Hitachi, Komatsu – and, of course, Caterpillar, with whom it has had a close relationship for 35 years. Seven of AKG’s global plants supply products to Caterpillar, and so far this year, five of them have been awarded honours in CAT’s supplier quality excellence program (SQEP). AKG’s Latvian plant has been awarded platinum level, the highest honour available, after achieving gold for the previous three consecutive years. The Indian plant was promoted to platinum after last year’s gold award, and the US plant in Mitchell, South Dakota won gold as its first award. AKG’s plant in China won a bronze, and just at the time of writing it was announced that its facility in France had also been recognised with a bronze award. “Our relationship with an OEM is just as important as the product,” says Adam Jury, AKG’s Global Key Account Manager for
“It’s not about achieving SQEP once, it’s about maintaining that consistency over time” Caterpillar, based in Mebane, North Carolina. “We have strong competitors who make good products, so you have to differentiate yourself in every way possible.” Supplier awards amount to prestigious recognition, he says, “but it’s not about achieving SQEP once, it’s about maintaining that consistency over time. With the awards we have won this year we have demonstrated the consistency that Caterpillar is looking for.” Companies often refer to a ‘partnership relationship’ with their customers, but what does this mean in practice? “For us, it means getting involved in projects at a very early stage and planning them together,” says Dr Armin Martin, Group Vice President, Sales and Engineering. “We work together in the research and development phase, sometimes years in advance of product introduction.” The cooling manufacturer is one of the
first suppliers chosen after the engine is selected, he explains. “When you design a new machine, the first thing you do is choose an engine. The next thing is to choose a cooler for that engine and then the rest of it follows.” The coolers are always individual to the engine, he explains, so if there are two different engine versions for the same dump truck, there would have to be two RFQs (requests for quotation), because every engine functions differently. As the design of the machine evolves, therefore, it’s important for the cooler supplier to follow every stage of development. “When they add components to the machine, the performance of the engine changes and the requirements of the coolers change,” explains Martin. “It can take up to seven or eight iterations before the machine is fully developed, so we keep talking with them over the development of every project.” The AKG plant in Latvia is the first to achieve Caterpillar’s platinum award. It began to do business with CAT in 2012 and earned its first gold award after two years, going platinum this year after three successive golds. What does that say about the company? “It says we have very high quality, and a delivery performance not far short of 100 per cent,” says Gerhard Ritzmann, plant manager and managing director since the factory opened in 2005.
“This is what the customer wants.” AKG Latvia supplies 30 or 40 different coolers to Caterpillar, including oil coolers, radiators, charger coolers and fuel coolers. Orders vary widely, week by week, depending on the machines that Caterpillar itself has taken orders
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for. “With this kind of complexity, quality and delivery performance are paramount,” says Ritzmann. ”You need to develop a production system that can follow the demands of the customer.” Such a system is often known as lean manufacturing, a way of working based on the legendary Toyota Production System, which AKG has adopted. Make to order is a fundamental element of lean manufacturing, as is continuous improvement. To be considered truly ‘lean’, a manufacturing facility must have this embedded in its culture. “You don’t have to look for big improvements,” says Ritzmann. “You must find thousands of small improvements.” One aspect of the Japanese inspired system that is not easily learned in Western culture is ‘jidoka’, the principle that work should stop immediately a problem becomes evident. In the traditional Western factory, stopping the line used to be almost a hanging offence, but in the enlightenment of the Toyota Production System it’s seen quite differently, as it allows an aberrant process to be corrected before any defective products are made. “To develop this culture is difficult because people are not designed for stopping,” says Ritzmann. “People are designed
for working around an abnormal situation. We start teaching jidoka when we first hire people, so it’s part of their induction into the company. That way people learn that it’s OK to stop when something is wrong. They get into trouble if they don’t stop!” Even if someone stops the line mistakenly, this is not a hanging offence either, as it identifies a training need, which leads to another small improvement. AKG’s facilities are all equipped to
“You need to develop a production system that can follow the demands of the customer” a high standard, so the quality of the product can be guaranteed around the world. In practice, however, as Caterpillar manufactures different machinery in different places, AKG’s plants tend to specialize accordingly, but they have to be ready to adapt when the need arises. “Our two US plants supply up to a dozen Caterpillar sites in the US,” says Adam Jury, “but they are relocating production of one of their machines to Indonesia. What makes us a good fit with Caterpillar is that we have a global manufacturing footprint that matches that of CAT’s. We have very consistent technology,
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“Our new modular cooling system uses a special kind of air cooling fins, with a very high performance with low cooling air pressure drop. That allows us to slow down the fan speed to reduce the engine’s fuel consumption”
tooling and quality levels across all of our plants, so we can easily transfer products from one location to another without significant investments.” Caterpillar’s European footprint is different from the US, Jury explains. The Dortmund plant in Germany is CAT’s global base for mining shovels, whereas in the US they build mining trucks and large dozers. No matter how good you are, nothing stays the same for long, however, especially with a system in which continuous improvement is a fundamental philosophy. “We have recently been working on our new modular cooling system (MCS),” says Hans Palm, AKG’s New Product Introduction Director, based in Germany. Coolers in AKG’s existing range are all single units, but the company has patented a cost effective method of plugging together individual modules that adds great flexibility and versatility. “How we put the cooler together is completely new in the market,” explains Palm. “There are other modular systems, but we have a special plug and seal connection which is a new development. We can use this connection for oil coolers, charger coolers and for radiators. The connectors are made of different materials according to their application and the modules are put together in a different way for each piece of mining equipment.” A great advantage here is that the configuration of the individual modules can be adjusted to make them adaptable to different ambient conditions. So if an OEM sells a piece
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of equipment for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, it might need its cooling system configured a little differently from the same machine sold in Northern Canada. “We can accommodate different ambient temperatures and dusty environments,” explains Palm. “We can fit them to meet any specific ambient conditions. But the cooler fits into the same envelope so they don’t need to redesign their surrounding structures for different conditions. We just rearrange them and plug them together in a different way.” New product development also has to keep pace with ever tighter emissions standards and other regulations, and these are just some of the drivers behind continuous product improvement. “Our new modular cooling system uses a special kind of air cooling fins, with a very high performance with low cooling air pressure drop,” explains Palm. “That allows us to slow down the fan speed to reduce the engine’s fuel consumption. We have also developed anti-clogging fins. That means that we have less fouling in our cooling systems, so the cooling performance is always near 100 per cent. And you don’t have to clean it so
often. And the weight of our coolers is usually also lower than other systems.” AKG is currently working on a major technological investment programme, as Dr Armin Martin explains. “We have a network of engineering offices all over the world that are interconnected. We have international teams working on particular projects because a requirement of a major customer is often for the same machine to be produced in different locations. It should be exactly to the same spec and the same quality. So we have global key account teams that cover all the locations from where a customer requires our products. We have seven global key account teams, of which Adam’s Caterpillar team is one.” This team communicates with the customer’s engineering department and all the AKG facilities where the cooler has to be produced, in order to develop a common design that can be produced in the different AKG factories. “We have a research and tech centre here in Germany,” Martin continues, “and we are currently investing a
couple of million dollars into a centre in America. Some of our research and development activities are also now in Asia because some of the big mining firms, like Komatsu and Hitachi, do their research in Asia, and they want us to be close. We have an engineering office in Japan, so we can talk in Japanese to their engineers.” As it approaches its centenary, AKG’s growth has been entirely organic, and the North American market currently represents a little over a third of its global business. “Our plan is to grow our Asian market to a third, so we have a third in North America, a third in Europe and a third in Asia,” concludes Dr Martin. “We hope to achieve that by 2025.”
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Doran Manufacturing Lee Demis Director of Business Development 2851 Massachusetts Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45225 Ph: (513) 699-6230 Email: Demis_Lee@Doranmfg.com Web: www.doranmfg.com
Dyno Nobel 2795 East Cottonwood Parkway Suite 500 Salt Lake City, UT 84121 Phone: 800-732-7534 Fax: 801-328-6452 Email: marketing@am.dynonobel.com Customers in the mining industry choose Dyno Nobel for quality products, reliable service and technical expertise. Dyno Nobel is the market leader in North America with facilities in Australia, Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Mexico, South America and Papua New Guinea. With a customer driven focus, Dyno Nobel develops practical products that will benefit customers in real time. Customers can count on real solutions to their pain points of today, helping them to reduce costs and increase production. Renowned for excellent safety performance and innovative explosive products and services, Dyno Nobel continuously delivers groundbreaking performance through practical innovation.
Established in 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio based Doran Manufacturing LLC. is a global leader in tire pressure monitoring systems and other transportation safety technology. Doran 360TM TPMS continuously monitor tire pressure and temperature data using wireless valve stem-mounted tire pressure sensors. Doran TPMS data can be integrated with telematics to communicate tire pressure and temperature data off equipment via wifi, gps and more for remote visibility of tire data. LumAware Advanced Photoluminescent safety products include Personal Protective Equipment (PPE – Helmets, Safety Vests) Exit Signage and more that makes workers performing tasks in low light/no light conditions safer, and illuminates exits and escapeways in emergencies.
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GEA Group Peter-Müller-Str. 12 40468 Düsseldorf Germany Tel +49 211 9136-0 chemical@gea.com GEA is one of the largest supplier for process technology and components for sophisticated production processes for many industries worldwide. Across a broad range of mining and mineral operations, GEA offers technologies, equipment & services in evaporation and crystallization, drying, cooling, calcining and conditioning, classification, thickening and dewatering, crud treatment and solvent extraction and wastewater management.
United Mining Rentals (UMR) was born out of a specific niche in the market for both short and longer term rentals for both new and used, Sandvik & Getman equipment for both underground & surface mining and also tunnelling applications. Coupled with +35 years of experience in the mining business, UMR provides both sales and rental of new & used mobile equipment for various mining & tunnelling operations across the world. In addition, our sister company, QME Mining Services Division (which operates as an International mining and tunnelling contractor), also operates a large fleet of predominately Sandvik equipment.
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Salter Cyclones Salter Cyclones specialises in fine solids removal with its own Hydrocyclones and Multi-Gravity Separators. These achieve powerful and precise separations in practical, compact, reliable, operator friendly and economic systems. Salter Cyclones Limited Tel: + 44 1242 697771 Fax: + 44 1242 690895 Email: sales@saltercyclones.com Web: www.saltercyclones.com
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MINPRO International have subsidiary offices in 4 countries all of which have the same business, supplying mineral processing equipment and engineering for the mineral processing industry worldwide. Our main products are AKER Flotation Machines; Hydraulic Roller Mills, Semi Mobile Modular Concentrators, Hydro Cyclone Batteries as well as Polyurethane wear parts for the mineral processing industry. We deliver complete new mineral processing installations, renovation and upgrade existing mineral processing plants, retrofitting the AKER flotation mechanisms in existing flotation machines as well as engineering services and consultancy
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Adrok is a cutting edge service technology company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, with exclusive global patents to Atomic Dielectric Resonance (ADR) imaging technology. This innovative technology has been developed for use in Oil and Gas, Mining and Civil Engineering sectors. Adrok’s technology has been used in several projects around the world to explore the sub-surface geology and locate accurately and identify precisely the fluids present at great depths providing high resolution without drilling the underground. This subsurface imaging scanner generates ‘virtual borehole’ logs of subsurface geology from the surface. It is lightweight, field rugged and portable, to enable cost-effective mobilisation.
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GEA Group Peter-Müller-Str. 12 40468 Düsseldorf Germany Tel +49 211 9136-0 chemical@gea.com GEA is one of the largest supplier for process technology and components for sophisticated production processes for many industries worldwide. Across a broad range of mining and mineral operations, GEA offers technologies, equipment & services in evaporation and crystallization, drying, cooling, calcining and conditioning, classification, thickening and dewatering, crud treatment and solvent extraction and wastewater management.
Formed in 1997, Canary Systems provides integrated geo-monitoring solutions for a broad range of mining applications, including open pit, tailings, SW-EX, and underground. We help clients better manage risk, monitor performance, and increase the safety of their operations by tying together the loose ends: the hardware required for automatic or semi-automatic data acquisition – and the software to collect, store, and analyze data in a simple and efficient way on a single combined powerful platform. We provide turnkey solutions – including system architecture, hardware and software development, telemetry, and instrumentation – as well as individual components customized to and augmenting existing project needs.
Canary Systems, Inc. Mining Group 4732 Oracle Road, Suite 112 Tucson, AZ 85705 USA Tel: 520.887.9800 info@canarysystems.com www.canarysystems.com
Salter Cyclones specialises in fine solids removal with its own Hydrocyclones and Multi-Gravity Separators. These achieve powerful and precise separations in practical, compact, reliable, operator friendly and economic systems.
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IVAC Industrial Vacuum Systems Ltd., manufactures a powerful pneumatic powered vacuum/ delivery system that allows you to pick-up and deliver your most difficult materials. The materials can be wet or dry including gravel, sand, slimes, sludge’s and water. The powerful, virtually maintenance free vacuum system is able to deliver the materials short or long distances, even up too kilometres through a pipeline or hose. Its is ideal for sump & ditch clean-up, tanks, under conveyors, around crushers and mills anywhere shovels, vacuum trucks or water hoses are being used for your clean-ups today!
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Motors, drives, mechanical power transmission – all from one supplier.
We have delivered reliable products to the mining industry for decades and being a valued partner with our customers is something we care about very deeply. One way we can help increase reliability is to make sure all the components in your system fit together seamlessly. When you are specifying a power train for your application, we can design and deliver a complete solution with variable speed drives, motors, couplings, bearings, gearing and pulleys. Take your energy efficiency to the next level with the best possible cost of ownership. With our expertise and extensive product and service offering you can ensure safe processes for machines and people. To learn more, call ABB or visit www.abb.com/powertrain-mining.
What can United Mining Rentals offer your company? At a time when fiscal responsibility is becoming exponentially more important, in an industry where the highest safety standards and productivity must be maintained, providing your operation with the best fleet at a minimal cost is fundamental to any successful and profitable business. United Mining Rentals (UMR) has over 30 years of experience in the Mining & Tunnelling Industry and we are proud to offer rental and ownership opportunities for the full range of new Sandvik and Normet equipment. We trust you will find the product that suits your Mining or Tunnelling operation, backed by the numerous advantages associated with theUMR rental, or rent with an option to purchase models that will reduce cost of ownership and help maintain productivity. Our full range of new Sandvik and Normet products are backed with full Factory Warranty, Technical Support, OEM Parts and a global network of local and regional OEM service centres. With such a robust range of support services, renting with UMR reduces maintenance costs and guarantees availability hence improving productivity for our customers whilst also eliminating rebuild down time. Striving to provide quality at a reasonable price, UMR offers an innovative model of flexible rental or rental/purchase options tailored to suit every kind of end user in the Tunnelling and Mining industries, allowing customers to avoid tying up capital and invest it in the future purchase of rented equipment. Our rental/purchase option offers an attractive allowance for paid rentals against pre-agreed purchase price easing upfront capital spending and is a way of investing in the ownership of the Equipment at a pre-determined date.
For all mining equipment rentals visit www.unitedminingrentals.com
EUROPE United Mining Rentals Ltd. Coolfore Road, Ardbraccan, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 KXY3, Ireland.
NORTH AMERICA United Mining Rentals Ltd. Suite 1200, 220 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2W4, Canada.
Tel: +353 87 1491945 Tel: +1 647 267 8193 Email: info@unitedminingrentals.com www.unitedminingrentals.com Our philosophy at UMR is simple – Downtime costs money. This philosophy inspired our aim to provide solutions to one of the major contributors of downtime in the mining and tunnelling industries: low availability of equipment. To ensure our customers don’t experience any downtime, we offer rentals and rent to purchase plans for new Sandvik and Normet equipment on a global basis, making use of the vast network of Worldwide Service Centres provided by two of the world leaders in Mining and Tunnelling Equipment. We also offer the option of bridging units to keep our customer’s operations running smoothly until their new rental unit arrives. We recognise that each customer has different requirements so we offer very flexible terms. Our first option is rent to purchase which allows for purchase of the equipment following a minimum one year rental period with a percentage of the rental payments deductible from the pre-agreed purchase price. Another option we offer is variable term rental from a minimum of 1 year upwards allowing the customer long term rental, consisting of 2-3 years allowing the customer to return the equipment with no commitment to purchase. We also offer a “Rolling Replacement” option, which allows the customer to return equipment to UMR following a 3 year rental and replace with new equipment for another 3 year term or pre-agreed period.
RENTALS AVAILABLE: Trucks and Loaders Underground Drilling & Bolting Roadheaders Exploration & Surface Drilling Lifting & Installations Scaling & Charging Underground Logistics Spraying
Our business model is designed with Mining Companies & Tunnelling Contractors in mind, who often have short or long term contracts, as well as Start-up mining operations which may wish to defer spending capital on expensive equipment for use in another area until positive cash flow is realized. Fixed rental payments simplify budget planning, and can be 100% Tax deductible against business income. By using a reliable rental provider such as UMR for a long term rental the costs of acquiring, running and maintaining the right equipment for the job can be greatly reduced, as renting equipment can generate significant savings by avoiding depreciation, the total cost of the purchase price, and unnecessary unit and component rebuild costs. UMR Equipment comes with a managed service tailored to each customer’s requirements covering bridging units, full technical support and immediate reaction to warranty issues ensuring availability at all times. Making that vital decision whether to buy or rent is not just a matter of budget, but of business strategy. So weigh up the numbers, and make the right decision for your business.
For all mining equipment rentals visit www.unitedminingrentals.com
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