A very well done to the prize winners, Ledile and Hendrik! Ledile Dikgale won the prize for the best mine schedule based on time it took...

A very well done to each and every delegate for completing the open pit mine design and mine scheduling courses during this week! Every...

During day 1 of the Open Pit Mine Design Basics course, our guests were treated to a tour of the Virtual Reality Centre at the Mining...

During the Open Pit Mine Design Basics course next week, Trimble's Open Pit Design package, TOP-D, will be used where candidates will use...

When I started in mine planning back in the day, everybody was talking about this Revenue Factor 1 thing. At some point I couldn't...

The video shows a glimps of the fun to be had at the Mine Scheduling course from 14 to 16 March at University of Pretoria. One thing I...

During the week of 12 to 16 March the School of Rock is presenting 2 mine planning courses at the University of Pretoria. The courses are...

Sash Pillay has been newly appointed as a Senior Mining Engineer in the planning department of an open pit iron ore mine in South Africa....

The graph on the left shows the relationship (green) between cumulative tonnes and the cut-off grade (COG). The higher the COG the less...

Doing a pit optimisation for a client, I realised you can utilise 2 different beneficiation plants by cleverly setting up the...