There is certainly more interest in Africa's minerals today, not only from countries like China, but also the Middle East and India.
What are your strategic priorities as the new chairman of SRK Consulting South Africa and lead of SRK on the African continent?
Providing innovative technical excellence in our services to clients remains our strategic priority. A recent example of this is our work helping clients work towards compliance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM). Despite, the high workloads and deadlines, we have been able to develop solutions and build capacity.
To support our professional engineers and scientists, SRK has a data service group whose role include developing smart tools to analyse the increasingly large datasets that we have to deal with. With real time monitoring, for instance, large volumes of data must be processed efficiently to reduce uncertainty and risk in mine planning and operations.
SRK has long operated all over Africa - wherever our clients need our services. With branches in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Ghana, we continue to pursue opportunities for expanding our footprint. Strategically, we build on local expertise in countries where we work and collaborate with like-minded partners.
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