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Changes To Environmental And Social Input Into Due Diligence Studies

Fiona Cessford, Jane Joughin

Publication - SRK News Article

The scope of environmental and social (E&S) input to multi-disciplinary due diligence studies has changed radically in the last decade.

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Industry Changes Support Trend Towards Sustainable Mining

Ivan Doku - April 2021

Publication - Article

There have been several changes globally as well as in West Africa’s mining industry, with the industry steadily embracing a more sustainable approach to mining, highlights SRK associate partner principal resource geologist and country manager Ivan Doku.

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A New Era | How Just Two Decades Have Changed Exploration

Bill Kellaway, Colin Rawbone - January 2022

Publication - Article

The Digital Revolution has created opportunities for more rapid execution of exploration projects. Global positioning system (GPS) technology which in fact dates back to the 1960s - has really changed the game, especially when incorporated into accessible devices.

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Public Documents

Listed below are projects for which we currently have documents to share. We will periodically update this information to reflect project changes.

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A Modern Resource and Reserve Modeling Process for Structurally Complex Coal Deposits

 Event - Vancouver, Canada

Traditionally, modeling complex coal deposits in the Canadian Rockies has been a time consuming and inflexible process. Geologists often spent months manually interpreting geologic sections before using these to code a 3D Block Model. Working sections were defined in drillhole compositing and could not be changed downstream. Resulting seam surfaces were often jagged and not easily used by engineers in design.

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Evolution of Financial Modelling Related to Mine Closure

 Event - Phoenix, AZ, USA

Financial models inform decision making related to mine development, changes in mine planning and selecting the final mine closure design.

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Renewed Hope: Post-Mugabe Policies Raising Expectations For Zim Platinum-Sector Growth

Hennie Theart, Andrew van Zyl, Winston Chitando, Nico Muller, Alex Mhembere, Trevor Raymond - September 2018

Publication

Amid Zimbabwe’s policy changes after former President Robert Mugabe’s removal in November 2017 and the subsequent air of expectation, the country’s platinum sector is poised for growth, if not for the challenges presented by the depressed global platinum market.

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Managing Social And Environmental Risk

Fiona Cessford - November 2011

Publication - Presentation

The 20 years since the Rio Declaration on the Environment and Development have seen huge changes in the way the world expects environmental, and more recently, social risks associated with new projects to be evaluated.

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Mine Closure: What Is The Real Cost?

John Chapman, Danielle Kyan, Jeff Parshley - March 2016

Publication - Article

Opportunities: Design changes, closure technologies, operational integration, alternative land uses

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Closure Modelling: Reaping the Benefits of Forward Planning

Luke Esprey

Publication - SRK News Article

This article describes the methodology Karara Mining used to develop an increasingly accurate estimate of closure costs that reflected changes over the life of the project and helped the company fulfill the requirements of the Closure guidelines.

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