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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Rock Engineering for Managers in Hard Rock Tabular Mines
Rock related accidents remain one of the major causes of injuries and fatalities in South African hard rock tabular mines. These accidents can also have a significant economic impact on operations. It is therefore imperative that managers, planners, and mine inspectors are aware of the critical aspects of current rock engineering practice.
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Light Metals Conference
The Advanced Metals Initiative (AMI), supported by the South African Department of Science and Technology, facilitates research, development and innovation across the whole value chain in the field of advanced metals, with the goal of achieving optimal sustainable local manufacturing of value-added products.
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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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HOW ELECTRONICS CAN RELEASE THE IMAGINATION
It is self-evident that economic pressure demands that today’s mines stay
ahead and stay competitive. The challenge, however, is to find fresh
approaches in the quest to attain maximum efficiency and optimal
operational effectiveness.
Read more: Presidential Address: How Electronics Can Release The Imagination
‘No one should approach the temple of science, with the soul of a money changer.’ Thomas Browne
Appropriately this issue contains papers from the recent International Coal Processing Conference, which was held in Lexington, USA in April. In past decades this aspect of coal mining was not generally considered as a topic of advanced highly scientific opportunity for forefront research.
Appropriately this issue contains papers from the recent International Coal Processing Conference, which was held in Lexington, USA in April. In past decades this aspect of coal mining was not generally considered as a topic of advanced highly scientific opportunity for forefront research.
Read more: Traditions, transactions, and technology transfer
‘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,
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,
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.
The 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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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:
+65 64351268 or +65 92222317
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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?)
+65 64351268 or +65 92222317
don.tran@tcpgroup.com
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