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South America: Miraflores Gold

SRK Global

Publication

In 2013, the Miraflores field programme near Quinchia, Columbia, piggybacked the exploration drilling, gathering data on rock strengths and fracturing to determine variations in rock mass quality.

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North America: Kennady North

SRK Vancouver

Publication - SRK News Article

SRK has provided geology development, evaluation and resource estimation for the Kennady North project, owned by Kennady Diamonds, a subsidiary of Mountain Province Diamonds.

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Abhijit Jana

Consultant - Kolkata, India

With over 13 years of experience in exploration projects, Abhijit Jana joined SRK Consulting (India) in 2018

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Emre Onsel

Consultant - Vancouver, Canada

Emre has been developing mining and geotechnical software for 15 years, with a focus during the last three on mixed and virtual reality applications for mining and geology.

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Joseph Mainama

Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa

Joseph has over 25 years of experience in the field of mining engineering.

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TSF Failure – Standards for Response and Recovery

Andries Fourie, Edrie du Plessis, Jessica Edwards - July 2021

Publication - Article

Even with the range of mitigation measures applied by mines to ensure that tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are safe, the Global Industry Standards on Tailings Management (GISTM) highlights that catastrophic failure may still occur – and outlines how mines should then respond.

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Pitfalls in Cut-Off Grade Estimation – Getting the Modifying Factors Right | CIM 2021

Event - Online

Join Gary Poxleitner in this panel session hosted by CIMVTL21. Selecting the correct Cut-off grade (COG) is essential. It affects the mine plan, cash flow, mine cost, sustainability and profitability of the operation. However, the work required to generate the optimum COG is often not given the requisite attention and diligence

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Integrated Tailings Management: Focusing on Safety and Effective Standard Compliance

Event - Vancouver, Canada

As in previous years ESRS continues to present workshops on the broad issues of mine waste management, and to promote awareness and balanced perspective of current challenges and leading practices. The proposed panel will discuss how leading practices are meeting the expectations of both new and well established standards and guidance for safe zero harm facilities.

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Applying Threshold Analysis to the Selection of Tailings and Waste Rock Closure Covers

Event - Saskatoon, Canada

The following content outlines the use of a framework for tailings and waste rock cover selection in a mine remediation project in Northern Canada, emphasizing the potential cost-effectiveness of lower infiltration covers, supported by threshold analysis to address input uncertainties in early design stages.

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Groundwater and Mining in the Atacama Desert: Impact of New Chilean Legislation and Challenges for the Future

Event - Davos, Switzerland

Until 2022, the Chilean Legislature allowed the free use of the groundwater pumped during mine dewatering in the production processes. However, since 2023, all mines are required to inform to the General Water Direction (DGA) the volume and location of the groundwater extractions, and the use of this resource is allowed only if the sustainability of the aquifers is not jeopardized.

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