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Mining and Mineral Exploration in Oman
December 10 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
MinSouth members Brian Spratley of Knights Bay Orix (On-line) and Michael Spratley from DMT (in Person) will be presenting the Lecture, ‘Mining and Mineral Exploration in Oman’ .
- Introduction
- Knights Bay, History and Team
- Oman, Mining and Attitudes to Mining, Industry and Logistics.
- Oman Opportunities and Challenges, Water, Environment, Legacy
- Regional Mining Activity, Exploration expansion in Saudi, Iran
- Mining Licensing, Oman recent changes and our experience
- Mining Activity, Oman, Opportunities and Threats
- Mining Risks – Jurisdiction, Resource Size, Extraction
- Knights Bay, Mineral Concession 21, Acquisition and Timeline.
- Summary of Regional and Local Geology, Local Stratigraphy, “Magnetite”, Black Laterite, Carbonaceous Shales
- Geometallurgy, Industry Standard – HPAL, Learning from Majors and New Plants, KB alternative approach, TGEM alternative.
- TGEM Testwork
- Resource delineation,
- Measurement, Drilling and Grades
- Geology, Current understanding
- Lateritic Sediments
- Type A Weathered Laterite Sediments
- Type B Magnetite
- Type C Carbonaceous shales
- Nickel, Cobalt, Chromium, Iron,
- REE’s and PGMs
- Lithium
- Sulphides
- Copper,
- Historical, Al Niba 10k tonnes slags, Al Sudia, MHT
- Major Cu bearing fault zones, dunnites
- Chromite
- Lateritic Sediments
- Geometallurgy
- Development Strategy
- Assistance from Local and Foreign Universities
- Assistance from UK.Gov
- Timelines
- Questions
It will be a hybrid in-person and online meeting, followed by networking drinks