In August Sean and Cuan travelled to the Catoca Mine in North East Angola to present an introductory two week course on the principals of mineral resource management, geology modelling, sampling, mineral resource estimation and classification. In addition to the time...
Z* (Sean and Andy) co-authored a paper with De Beers for the SAMREC Companion Volume Conference that was held in Johannesburg on the 17th and 18th of May. The conference was well supported by the mining fraternity with representation from gold, diamonds, gemstones,...
During May Cuan attended the DatamineTM Africa Conference which was held over three days at Misty Hills outside Johannesburg. The presentations included topics such as dealing with outlier, uniform conditioning, stratified orebody modelling and sampling. The focus of...
Just before the start of the 2016 Mining Indaba in Cape Town Z* presented a one day introductory course on mineral resource estimation. Sean presented the workshop which was held under the auspices of the American Society of Economic Geologists and UCT. The event took...
Z* recently completed a Mineral Resource Classification System (MRCS) for use on all De Beers operations. The main part of the MRCS is a scorecard system focussing on key aspects of diamond resource classification. An SQL database and user-friendly front end make this...
During 2014/15 Z* designed and developed an integrated mine planning system for De Beers Marine that was required to produce long and short term plans as well as day to day operational mine plans. The IMPS employs leading edge technology which includes the application...
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