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MINING ECONOMICS!!

MINING ECONOMICS!!

As mining engineers, we tend to only focus on the technical side of things when faced with a challenge, without really considering the effect of the solution on the bottom line. This is not good practice, and can lead to huge disappointment when the economics of the solution is not strongly considered. As part of RPMGlobal's Professional Development Programme, and in partnership with the School of Rock, the Mining Economics course is presented in Online format for your conven

CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES – HAULSIM!!

CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES – HAULSIM!!

Have a group of employees that need basic training in terms of mine planning software? Or perhaps a refresher course to get those rusty skills oiled up? Or perhaps professional development is the next step for your employees... Be it as it may, the School of Rock prides itself as a preferred service provider in terms of empowering your group of individuals to tailor-made requirements. Kindly click on the link below for particulars: "https://www.schoolofrockmining.com/group-tr

MINING ROCKSTAR OF THE WEEK - AUGITE!!

MINING ROCKSTAR OF THE WEEK - AUGITE!!

Augite is a rock-forming mineral that commonly occurs in mafic and intermediate igneous rocks such as basalt, gabbro, andesite, and diorite. It is found in these rocks throughout the world, wherever they occur. Augite is also found in ultramafic rocks and in some metamorphic rocks that form under high temperatures. Augite has a chemical composition of (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6 with many paths of solid solution. Commonly associated minerals include orthoclase, plagioclase, o

CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES – OPMS/SMS!!

CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES – OPMS/SMS!!

Have a group of employees that need basic training in terms of mine planning software? Or perhaps a refresher course to get those rusty skills oiled up? Or perhaps professional development is the next step for your employees... Be it as it may, the School of Rock prides itself as a preferred service provider in terms of empowering your group of individuals to tailor-made requirements. Kindly click on the link below for particulars: "https://www.schoolofrockmining.com/group-tr

ONLINE CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES - SURPAC!!

ONLINE CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES - SURPAC!!

Have a group of employees that need basic training in terms of mine planning software? Or perhaps a refresher course to get those rusty skills oiled up? Or perhaps professional development is the next step for your employees... Be it as it may, the School of Rock prides itself as a preferred service provider in terms of empowering your group of individuals to tailor-made requirements. Kindly click on the link below for particulars: "https://www.schoolofrockmining.com/group-tr

ONLINE CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES - WHITTLE!!

ONLINE CORPORATE GROUP TRAINING & COURSES - WHITTLE!!

Have a group of employees that need basic training in terms of mine planning software? Or perhaps a refresher course to get those rusty skills oiled up? Or perhaps professional development is the next step for your employees... Be it as it may, the School of Rock prides itself as a preferred service provider in terms of empowering your group of individuals to tailor-made requirements. Kindly click on the link below for particulars: "https://www.schoolofrockmining.com/group-tr

INTEGRATED STRATEGIC PLANNING – A GAME CHANGER??

INTEGRATED STRATEGIC PLANNING – A GAME CHANGER??

Attended Whittle Consulting's Integrated Strategic Planning seminar and I was blown away by the value to be had in the existing value chain from resource to market. If I try to explain it I might just end up confusing you, so I urge you to kindly have a look at the YouTube clip - I'll let the pro's do the talking... This might just be what your mine needs!!

HAULSIM PRODUCTIVITY SIMULATIONS!!

HAULSIM PRODUCTIVITY SIMULATIONS!!

Are you 100% confident that your Excel calculations are correct in determining fleet numbers? Are your roads accurately set-up in terms of stop signs, single carriage areas, steep gradients, single-bay dumps? What happens when you have congestion in your pit, how does Excel cater for that? With the HAULSIM simulations you can set up your site accurately to generate realistic results in terms of fleet numbers. The simulations allow you to run a host of possible scenarios, to e

MINING ROCKSTAR OF THE WEEK - ARSENOPYRITE!!

MINING ROCKSTAR OF THE WEEK - ARSENOPYRITE!!

Arsenopyrite is an iron arsenic sulphide mineral with a chemical composition of FeAsS. It is the most abundant arsenic mineral and the primary ore of arsenic metal. In addition to being found in deposits that are large enough to be minable, arsenopyrite is widely distributed. However, it usually occurs in such small amounts and in such small particle sizes that it is easily overlooked. It is associated with other sulphide minerals in organic-rich sedimentary rocks, metamorphi

MINE SCHEDULING!!

MINE SCHEDULING!!

Know the feeling... when you're losing precious time because of fighting the software instead of running iterations and scenarios... You will never have confidence in your schedule if you do not have 2 or 3 scenarios to test the flex of your system. Your superiors want a number of options, not just one answer. RPMGlobal's XPAC SOLUTIONS products (OPMS & SMS) allows you to do just that - run scenarios instead of suffering in silence. With almost a decade of open pit scheduling

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