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4th International Platinum Conference : Platinum In Transition 'Boom or Bust' Date: 11 - 14 October 2010 Venue: Sun City, South Africa The conference will cover all aspects from exploration, feasibility studies, mine development, mining, metallurgy, customers and customer demands to recycling and interaction with society. Secondly, to learn from this latest boom and bust experience and through increased understanding continue to build a strong viable mining industry that will benefit all stakeholders.
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2nd Hardrock Safe Conference 2010 - Zero Harm Date: 4 - 6 August 2010 Venue: Emperors Palace, Convention Resort, Johannesburg. The conference will present best practice from South Africa’s safe hard rock leaders. Best practice operations will share how they have managed to change people’s attitudes and behaviour. SEE MORE HERE...
Career Guidance CD Mining Companies need well educated and trained engineers and scientists.  The SAIMM Career Guidance and Education Committee has assumed much of the work previously carried out by the Chamber of Mines in the area of Career Guidance and Education promotion, in the disciplines of Mining Engineering, Mine Surveying, Geology and Metallurgy.

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SAIMM Events The SAIMM conferences and symposia on offer to members of the SAIMM deliver information and networking opportunities that meet the needs of the SAIMM member audience. Specifically in terms of knowledge-gain/transfer needs; promotion of the industry in a positive light and creating room for inter-action with one’s peer group.

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Nuggets or Nano Gold

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‘I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, And express it in numbers, you know something about it; But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, Your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.’ Lord Kelvin, 1882

The papers in this issue were selected from a conference on sampling and blending held last year. This topic is generally considered by most production industries as a necessary,

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SAIMM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

On the 11th of August 2010 at 16:30 the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy will be hosting its Annual General Meeting at the Johannesburg Country Club in Auckland Park. This meeting will be followed by a cocktail function.

The President and Council of the Institute invite members, their guests and members of other constituent societies to attend. 

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Leaner and meaner or keener and cleaner

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‘GM will be leaner and meaner’ Barack Obama, President of the USA Comments on the General Motors bailout 2009

We are emerging, I hope, from the most traumatic recession for many an era

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IASB Discussion Paper, Extractive Activities

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IASB Discussion Paper, Extractive Activities. Comments would be welcome. Industry forums will be arranged to formalize comments from the SSC and the SAIMM”.

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) published today the results of an international research project on a possible future International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) for extractive activities in the form of a discussion paper – Extractive Activities.
A research team comprising members of the Australian, Canadian, Norwegian and South African accounting standard-setters analysed and discussed accounting for extractive activities with a wide range of stakeholders in order to identify a possible approach for a standard on the accounting for extractive activities. The discussion paper only contains the views of the project team – it does not represent the views of the Board. After considering the responses received on the discussion paper, the Board will decide whether to add the project to its active agenda.

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Handbook on Mine Fill now available

MINEFILL2011

HandbookOnMineFill_copyThe use of mine fill is almost as old as mining itself. Future land use considerations and evolving community attitudes demand that industry comprehensively explores the use of fill, particularly fill generated from mining waste in a diverse range of underground and surface operations.

This book is a concise summary of the considerable body of mine fill knowledge and experience and provides mining engineers and those responsible for the application of fill with a one stop reference, covering the most significant aspects of fill.

Editors: Y. Potvin, E. Thomas and A. Fourie
Publisher: Australian Centre for Geomechanics
ISBN: 0-9756756-2-1
Number of pages: 179

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2009 END OF YEAR MESSAGE FROMTHE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT

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Colleagues,

 We are again coming to the end of another year. Many of you will agree with me that 2009 was an eventful year. The global financial crisis, which started towards the end of 2007, has had a more devastating effect in our industry this year than in the previous two years, with business slowing down and more jobs being lost. Many mining houses have had to cut back on spending to remain afloat. This meant that fewer people could afford to attend many of our technical events. I am told that the Chinese ideogram for ‘crisis’ is composed of two separate characters: one means danger and the other means opportunity. The proper translation is that a crisis is a dangerous opportunity. Often the danger is more readily seen and the opportunity can be well hidden. So, while many of the businesses fell on the wayside, and others disappeared completely altogether, others found this as an opportunity to fine tune procedures and processes and transform into more efficient operations, ready for the coming boom times. We, at SAIMM saw the crisis as an opportunity too. 

We managed to re-organise ourselves and do things differently and more effectively.   

This has resulted in a number of successes.

Let me start by reviewing some of this year’s highlights in the various institute’s various departments: 

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    South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), on Friday threatened to embark on industrial action across all local operations of diamond giant De Beers. This comes after the miner served workers with section 189 notices to inform them that 350 jobs at the Finsch mine, in the Northern Cape, would be...

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THE CONSULTING PARTNERSHIP PTE LTD – METALLURGIST TO WORK IN ASIA, BASED IN SINGAPORE.
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?)
Interested applicants please kindly contact Don Tran at
+65 64351268 or +65 92222317
don.tran@tcpgroup.com
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