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TIME IS NOT RENEWABLE
At this time of the year, it is customary to reflect on the past 12 months and invariably, to remark that we cannot believe that another year has gone by. By this time, we should know that there are no slow years. They all fly by, each year quicker than the one before.
JORC REVIEW
Kindly note that the JORC website: http://www.jorc.org/index.asp was recently amended.
The JORC Executive decided to extend the deadline for submissions as a result of agreement between JORC and ASX to provide mutual briefings of the outcomes of the consultation processes prior to any public release of information.
The date for submissions to JORC and ASX is now 27 January 2012.
19 October 2010: Russia's minerals industry took another step towards better access to global capital markets last month when it signed a protocol to bring its resource reporting systems in line with the CRIRSCO template recognised in most established capital markets.
Working in collaboration with the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO) – an industry group that promotes best practice in mineral reporting standards – Russia's State Commission on Mineral Reserves (GKZ) plans to make it easier for prospective investors and financiers to evaluate mining projects in that country.Read more: Russia's minerals took another step towards better access to global capital markets ...
OneMine
Top 25 Downloaded SAIMM Papers
During the course of 2011 the SAIMM arranged access for all SAIMM members to the OneMine.org website that contains a large database of technical papers to be downloaded.
The list below shows the top 25 most downloaded SAIMM papers across the world for the period of 3 January 2010 until the 31st of August 2011.
This edition of the Journal covers a wide variety of subjects. There should be something of interest for just about everyone. It is also gratifying to note the geographic spread of the authors contributions came from: Canada, Iran, China, Australia, and of course South Africa.
‘If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men’ - Chinese Proverb.
Mining Weekly Headlines
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Goldcorp agrees to higher 5% royalty in GuatemalaCanada’s second-biggest gold miner, Goldcorp, has struck a deal with Guatemala to increase its royalty rate by four percentage points to 5% of gross revenue, the company said on Friday. The government announced the previous day that royalties for precious metals production would climb to 4% from the previous 1% level,...
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Ivanhoe reassures minorities after Rio says to seek changesIvanhoe Mines, now majority owned by Rio Tinto, said on Friday an agreement with the diversified major stipulated that a majority of its 14-member board had to be independent directors. Rio Tinto bought an additional 2% of Ivanhoe’s stock this week, lifting its ownership to 51%, and said it expected use...
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Optimum Coal production performance ‘disappoints’JSE-listed Optimum Coal’s run-of-mine (ROM) production dropped to 7.441-million tons in the first half of the 2012 financial year, from 8.789-million tons a year earlier. The company on Friday reported a production drop of more than 20% for export/high-quality domestic coal, producing 2.903-million tons in the half year, compared with the...
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African Barrick hikes resource at Nyanzaga projectGold miner African Barrick Gold reported on Friday a big increase in the mineral resource estimate at the Tusker deposit of its Nyanzaga project, in Tanzania. The updated in-pit resource was in excess of four-million ounces of gold, consisting of indicated resources of 3.48-million ounces at 1.47 g/t of gold and...
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Mwana production falls 15%Gold production from Aim-listed Mwana Africa’s Freda Rebecca gold mine dropped from 13 686 oz in the September quarter, to 11 573 oz in the three months to the end of December. The resources company attributed the lower production rates, which equated to a monthly production average of 3 858 oz,...
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Freeport replaces CEO at Indonesian unit after strikeFreeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's will appoint a new chief executive at its Indonesian unit, the Arizona-based miner said on Friday, as it looks to turn the page after it made an agreement last month to end a crippling three-month strike. Rozik Soetjipto will replace outgoing CEO Armando Mahler, who will become...
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Our Client, a MNC into Surface Chemistry, provides outstanding technologies on process aids for mineral ores enrichment processes. Asia is still a small market, but with quality demand increasing and exhaustion of high purity ores, they see more and more companies looking to install purification facilities that will require their chemicals.
Usually, tailored formulations for customers are developed by sending samples of their ores to labs in Europe.
Currently, they have a very experienced technical sales person based in Europe who visits Asia regularly. Their sales manager, based in Australia, is also very knowledgeable of the mining industry. However, they have nobody in Asia that can give technical support, speak the language of the metallurgists who work in the mines, and be the liaison with the formulation development labs.
Thus, they have been looking for a metallurgist (not a mining engineer) to be that technical expert in Asia. Based in Singapore, his duties will be to:
- Provide technical guidance to customers
- Interpret questions and requests from customers and brief Europe accordingly
- Prospect new opportunities for existing technologies
- Be the focal point for the introduction of new mining products in Asia
- Understand the field of ore purification
- Report to the Performance Applications Manger, based in Shanghai
- Undertake a heavy travel schedule (may suit someone under 40yr?)
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