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Energy: Does the Future of Powering Mines Lie With Renewables?

Andrew van Zyl - September 2021

Publication - Article

Africa has yet to cut its ties with coal. "Most coal power stations in Africa will not close prematurely, though there may no longer be investments into new coal projects as we move beyond coal to sources of energy with lower emissions," commented Andrew van Zyl.

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How the Disaster Declaration Supports Local Municipalities

Andries Fourie - May 2022

Publication - Article

The scale of the recent KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) floods and their consequences led to the announcement of a National – rather than municipal or provincial – State of Disaster in terms of Section 27 of the Disaster Management Act (No. 57 of 2002).

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Concepts and application of machine learning to mining geoscience: A practical course

Event - Toronto, ON, CA

Over the last 10 years machine learning has been a growing subject of conversation in the mining industry. From the targeting of mineral deposits to connected mining environments, there is no doubt that artificial intelligence plays a growingly important role in the industry.

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Indaba In A New Normal

Andrew van Zyl - March 2021

Publication

It was unusual – no mountain, no sea, and no wine. Virtually, Mining Indaba felt as normal as a windless afternoon in the Mother City, writes Leon Louw. African Mining Indaba has been a highlight on the mining industry’s calendar for the last 26 years.

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What Makes ESG So Central to Mining?

Andrew van Zyl, Darryll Kilian - May 2022

Publication - Article

It is no surprise that this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba places ESG as a key theme, with industry leaders ranking ESG as the top risk in the latest EY Top 10 Business Risks and Opportunities for mining and metals in 2022.

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Managing Sustainability Disclosures in Project Evaluations

Fiona Cessford - June 2022

Publication

Robert G Eccles (Forbes, 2021) asks us to imagine a world in which there were no standards for financial accounting. He compares what happened before the establishment of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934 as the Wild West! Well, the same can now be said for

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Influence of Hoek-Brown Linearization and Input Cross-Correlation in Slope Probability of Failure Calculation

Esteban Hormazábal, Felipe Sanz - November 2018

Publication - Published Paper

When Hoek-Brown failure-criterion (H-B) is selected, their parameters are determined as the ones that better fit data; therefore, depends on the method of fitting, the experimental error and statistical sufficiency of data.

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Darryll Kilian

Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa

Darryll’s career spans 28 years and he has held professional positions in academia, international development assistance and consulting.

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Underground Sublevel Stope Optimization

Project - Chincha, Peru

Designed openings and dilution control for stopes without personnel entry.

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Visvanathan Reddy

Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa

Vis has over 30 years of experience in environmental geochemistry and air quality management.

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