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SUMMARY:2021 MinSouth Christmas Quiz
DESCRIPTION:The Quizmaster will be doing a number of rounds of questions. \nTeams of up to six people can work together on the questions\, using a separate meeting platform for their group discussions (e.g. Skype\, Whatsapp or Jitsi etc). \nPlease register your team\, provide names of team members and identify a team spokesperson and communicate this information to the Eventbrite LINK by Friday\, the 10th of December. \nYou can also join in as an individual and we will allocate you to a team.  We will endeavour to develop teams of mixed disciplines\, so please register on the Eventbrite LINK by Friday\, the 10th of December.   \nWhen going to your separate platforms\, please turn off your microphones at the GoToMeeting MinSouth Quiz site.  It will help ensure that there is no interference while you chat on your separate meeting platforms.  It will also ensure that people from other teams are not spying on your team 😉 \nThere will be a dry run where one can familiarise oneself with using GoToMeeting with whichever meeting platforms different teams are using.    This is scheduled to be at 12:30 on the day of the competition (Tuesday\, the 14th of December).  To gain access\, use the link that will be given to you once you registered on Eventbrite. \nOn the day of the competition (Tuesday\, the 14th of December)\, we ask that you check into the platform at 6:00 pm so we can arrange the teams.  The questioning will begin at 6:15 pm. \nThe Quiz will be on a trust basis\, so no Googling please.  The Quizmaster will present the answers at a mid-point and at the end of the Quiz and the marking will be carried out – again\, on a trust basis – by the team’s spokesperson who will provide the Quizmaster with their final score. \nThere will be no prizes awarded this year\, however we would like to invite participants to make a donation to us for the IOM3 Benevolent Fund – via Paypal – go to www.paypal.co.uk  then log in and click on send money and fill in treasurer@minsouth.org.uk in the recipients e mail box.  This information is also available on the MinSouth webpage at this Link. \n(We suggest £5 per team\, or whatever teams or individuals would like to donate).
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/2021-minsouth-christmas-quiz/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:General meeting,MinSouth Quiz
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210513T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210513T193000
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SUMMARY:Blockchain technology for the mining industry
DESCRIPTION:Blockchain technology for the mining industry:  What is blockchain\, where it works for us now and what is the bright and not-too-distant future for all mining industry stakeholders. \nTanya Matveeva will be presenting Blockchain technology for the mining industry: what is blockchain\, where it works for us now and what is the bright and not-too-distant future for all mining industry stakeholders.  This will be a joint presentation of MinSouth and Women In Mining – UK. \n \nIn this presentation\, she will give a brief explanation of the inner workings of blockchain technology\, history of its adoption in various spheres of our lives so far\, both in finance and blockchain for enterprise – two very different applications\, review where blockchain is already working for mining industry players and where we should be looking to learn what can and should be done soon.This promises to be an interesting lecture. \nRegistration can be done at this Link. \n\nTanya is an experienced exploration geologist focussed on connecting mining industry with developers of blockchain technology. Interested in all things disruptive to make mining better. \nStarted with BHP Minerals exploration group in Russia\, Kazakhstan and Australia\, then in Canada and later in several African countries. \nWorked for major and junior mining companies\, Alberta geological survey\, mining consultancies\, currently leading her own consultancy firm\, KAMNI Chain Ltd.\, based in Canterbury\, Kent\, UK. \nWork with large datasets in mineral exploration taught her respect for good data management practices.  \nSince learning about blockchain technology she realised the transformational potential of blockchain and now focus my work on developing applications of blockchain in mining space.
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/72449/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210408T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210408T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021658
CREATED:20200903T090445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T155245Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture:  Scotgold Resources Ltd.'s Cononish Gold & Silver Mine
DESCRIPTION:On the 8th of April\, MinSouth will be hosting a lecture presented by ScotGold Resources Ltd to discuss its Cononish Gold and Silver Mine.  The presentation will be by Richard Gray \nNON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – WITH EFFECT FROM 01 APRIL 2021 Mr Richard Gray has extensive international experience\, in both underground and open pit mine operations\, and brings considerable operational knowledge and management experience and skills to the Company\, particularly in the development and implementation of gold mining projects. He has previously held various roles at both majors and juniors within the gold mining sector and his successful career has included 15 years working in South Africa for Gencor Ltd and 14 years in West Africa for Golden Star Resources Ltd and Avocet Mining.  He holds a BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering from the Royal School of Mines\, Imperial College and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business\, Cape Town University. \n  \nThis mine is in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park near Tyndrum. \nWe last heard from ScotGold in 2014   Since that time\, ScotGold has started mining and had its first gold pour in 2020 on the 30th of November.  It will be interesting to hear the paths they followed to reach this point and the paths being planned to follow in the future. \nGold was discovered at Cononish in the 1980s.  Diamond drilling campaigns were followed by a 900m long exploration adit between 1989 and 1991.  Mineral resource delineation continued from that point.  Planning approval was granted by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in 2018 on October 19th\, Work commenced later that year on December 18th. \nThere are estimated reserves of 550 000t with a grade of 11.8 g Au/t.  The average annual production over the nine year mine life is 23 370 oz.  63 employees will be working at this mine while it is in production. \n \nMore information about the Cononish Gold and Silver Mine can be found by clicking on the Scotgold logo above. \nOne can register for this event by clicking on the Eventbrite link below. \nLecture on 8th April 2021:  Scotgold Resources Ltd.’s Cononish Gold and Silver Mine.
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/scotgold/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210114T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021658
CREATED:20201216T195349Z
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SUMMARY:This house asks "Whether mining should be allowed on the moon and in Antarctica?"
DESCRIPTION:The presentations will be presented from this GoToMeeting Room.  Click the Link at the end of the sentence to download the GoToMeeting App. \nPresentations will be made by four people outlining how mining could affect the moon and Antarctica either positively or negatively.  This number may evolve. \nPresenters Profiles: \n\nDion Brandt\n\nSenior Associate and Geologist \nBehre Dolbear International \nGold and Base Metal Consultant \nResearch areas include Meteorite Impact Studies and Fluvial Systems \n\nJoshua Rasera\n\nMechanical Engineer \n3rd Year Ph.D. Student \nImperial College \n\nColin Morrish\n\nMining Engineer Consultant \nOccupational Health and Safety\, Mining Methods\, Rock Mechanics specialist \nFormerly Mines Inspector employed by the province of Saskatchewan in Canada for 18 years. \n\nSue Struthers\n\nMinSouth Past President \nChartered Environmentalist \nThere will be an opportunity for you to put forward questions or your own views after the presentations and participate in an informal straw poll. \nBy way of some background to mining on the moon\, see the video of Joshua’s Young People’s Lecture Competition (YPLC) presentation on this topic on the MinSouth website which can be located at this Link \nMr. Rasera also presented to the NXGEN Resources Student Conference last November.  A copy of this presentation is available on YouTube:  NXGEN Resources 2020 YPLC Presentation.
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/this-house-asks-whether-mining-should-be-allowed-on-the-moon-and-the-antarctica/
LOCATION:Virtually
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201112T200000
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SUMMARY:Sensors in Mining (Microsoft Teams)
DESCRIPTION:Join Microsoft Teams Meeting \nSensors: \nGordon Stove of Adrok will give a talk on Low-carbon\, Low-cost\, Low-risk\, High value-adding Technology for Mineral Exploration; \nFinding subsurface natural resources is getting harder\, not easier.  Explorers are having to look deeper under cover to find new resources and reserves.  Coupled with the technical challenges\,  safeguarding our environment and natural beauty is also critical to the Explorer.   Adrok has developed a deep ranging radio wave system that can pinpoint natural resources in an environmentally friendly and sensitive way.  Surveys are low-carbon affairs and do not destruct the subsurface.   Adrok’s goal is to make the world a better place by better understanding what lies beneath the earth surface. We aim to help our clients increase their exploration success \nAndrew Bamber of Bara Consulting will be talking about Modifying your Modifying Factors with the use of Sensors \nSensors come in many forms and can be used for many things\, but possibly the best use of sensors is for the discovery\, definition\, and characterization of orebodies both before and during mining activity. This talk will review several types of sensor plus examples of use in each of these roles\, and present some case study examples of where either significant dilution or loss was avoided through the application of sensor technology. \n  \nJoin Microsoft Teams Meeting \n 
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/sensors-in-mining/
CATEGORIES:General meeting,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200513T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200513T190000
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SUMMARY:Dry Mineral Processing - for the Moon and Earth
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Hadler of Imperial College is preparing a presentation entitled “Dry Mineral Processing – for the Moon and Earth”. \nJoin the Teams meeting \nUse of off-Earth resources\, or Space Resource Utilisation (SRU)\, is essential for the further exploration of space by humankind. Off-Earth resources will provide propellant\, oxygen\, water and building materials.  The production of oxygen from lunar soil is the first step in this process.  The overall flowsheet for lunar oxygen production is similar to that of terrestrial metal production from a mined ore.  The process flowsheets both include excavation\, haulage and beneficiation of the lunar soil or terrestrial ore to provide the feedstock for the chemical extraction of oxygen or metal. \nAs a mineral processing engineer\, Kathryn is interested in the beneficiation of lunar soils.  The environmental constraints on the Moon present a number of challenges for beneficiation of minerals\, including low gravity and a lack of air or water for transporting and separating minerals.  These challenges mean we must think differently about the way in which we separate minerals in space\, which has the potential to bring new ideas and approaches to terrestrial mineral separations.  In this talk\, we will look at the role of mineral processing in the lunar oxygen production flowsheet\, the challenges faced\, and how we might use SRU to transform our terrestrial mineral processing operations.
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/dry-mineral-processing-for-the-moon-and-earth/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190513T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021659
CREATED:20180429T153336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T180056Z
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SUMMARY:IOM3 150th Anniversary function and joint meeting with Women in Mining
DESCRIPTION:Fiona Cessford\, Director and Corporate Consultant (Environment) at SRK Consulting (UK) will give a talk entitled \n“Impact assessment and feasibility studies – amalgamate or separate”. \nWe like to think the bad old days of impact assessment studies being done solely to obtain the necessary permits are in the past\, but are they? Unfortunately there are still companies out there who separate and isolate these processes. Proportional impact assessment and amalgamation with project development studies is not just about permitting and keeping local communities informed\, it also aims to maximise efficiencies in initial spend\, understand and plan for project risks and add significant value when it comes to raising finance or selling the project. The ways in which these aims can be met and the risks of getting it wrong will be discussed with reference to case studies. \nFiona Cessford MSc\, PrSciNat is a Corporate Consultant with over 25 years’ experience in environmental and social (E&S) management. Fiona’s global experience includes ESIAs\, permitting\, project engineering studies and due diligence reviews. As part of multidisciplinary teams\, she provides E&S expertise with reference to the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards\, as well as host country requirements. \nFiona has worked both as a regulator at the UK’s Environment Agency (8 years) and as a consultant in SRK’s South African and UK practices (20 years). Fiona’s E&S experience spans preparation and management of ESIAs\, input to project engineering studies (PEAs\, PFSs\, FSs etc)\, management planning\, closure planning\, risk management\, audit and due diligence\, technical advice on water and waste issues and environmental reporting. She regularly works with multidisciplinary due diligence teams\, commenting on E&S and health & safety risks associated with new and existing mining and infrastructure projects as input to competent persons reports\, mergers & acquisitions and financial transactions. She has been the independent engineer (environment) for a number of loan agreements in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe\, focusing on compliance with the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards\, as well as host country requirements. Having worked on multiple gold\, base metal\, bauxite and heavy mineral sand projects (amongst others)\, Fiona’s global mining knowledge assists her in communicating E&S risks in a language understood by mine managers\, lenders and corporate decision makers. \nhttps://www.womeninmining.org.uk/
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/general-meeting-7/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190408T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190408T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021659
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SUMMARY:General meeting - 150 Years of Steel
DESCRIPTION:Roger Emmott\, a recent Past-President of MinSouth and consultant to the iron and steel industry\, will give a presentation on the evolution of steel as a complex and versatile material that has facilitated the modern world as we know it\, over a relatively short space of time (150 years). \nStarting in 1869\, the presentation will cover the evolution of primitive iron into cast-iron and then wrought iron and then finally the discovery that steel could be refined and more latterly using many alloying elements to bestow potentially a wider range of structures and properties than any other material.  This is achieved through processes largely attributed to Bessemer\, with modifications by Gilchrist\, and then the advent of the Siemens Martin open hearth furnace\, and finally the realisation around 1948 by Durrer in Austria\, that oxygen can be used more effectively. \nIt will also profile the slow but sure evolution of technology\, including the migration of steel ingots into continuous casting\, the increased sophistication of hot rolling\, the advent of thin slab flat rolling pioneered by SMS and Nucor\, and more latterly\, direct strip casting as epitomised by the Castrip process also now being commercialised by Nucor. \nStarting in 1869\, it will review the growth of the industry worldwide\, and its many complexities\, including the cultural revolution of China and the backyard furnaces in 1958\, and subsequent developments. \nAnd what of the future? Steel consumption is predicted to continue to grow. Is that possible?  How will the steel of the future be made?  Will blast furnaces die?  As time goes by\, more steel is consumed in the world\, so more of it is available to recycle with steel being the most recycled material in the world.  There are some issues regarding quality but can these be overcome?  Will we see more innovative uses of steelmaking\, more use of electric arc furnaces which are much more carbon efficient than blast furnaces\, which in turn will mean less use of iron ore? \nRoger Emmott is an expert witness and consults on business strategy\, business development\, innovation and advising the global metals and mining sector.  \nHe has advised clients in over 50 countries\, including strategic\, due diligence\, market and feasibility studies for leading engineering consultancies Hatch and Atkins. He is experienced at managing projects\, especially those with diverse global virtual teams.  \nRoger is a Chartered Engineer\, a Fellow of the Institute of Minerals\, Materials and Mining (IOM3) and a serving Council member of Minsouth\, as well as being the Past President 2016/17.  He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and the Chartered Management Institute.  \n 
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/general-meeting-6/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021659
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SUMMARY:Joint meeting with BTS: Salt Mining in Cheshire
DESCRIPTION:Salt Mining in Cheshire. Speaker: Gordon Dunn\, Compass Minerals UK \nWinsford Salt Mine: From Drill and Blast to Automated Continuous Mining\, will explore the historic method of drill and blast\, focusing on the move from continuous miners to the automation of the miners\nand the benefits of automation. \nAlternative Mine Uses (AMUs) which are in place to reduce the weather effect of a winter de-icing business will also be discussed. \nThis is a free event – advance booking not required. \nTea and biscuits will be available at 5:30pm
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/joint-meeting-with-bts/
LOCATION:The Institution of Civil Engineers\, 1 Great George Street\, Westminster
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181001T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021659
CREATED:20180429T152443Z
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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:After the AGM Rob Davies\, a Director of Forge International Limited and Chief Technical Officer of Brazil Iron Limited\, will be talking about resource estimation\, implications and reporting to markets and shareholders. \nThe estimation of a Mineral Resource is one of the most significant steps in the development of a mining project. Resource estimates underpin project value and influence all subsequent technical and economic studies. A Resource estimate provides the first opportunity for the informal project valuations that drive equity markets. Reliable Resource estimates and clear and transparent disclosure are critical to both mining/exploration companies and investors.  This presentation is intended as an introduction to the Resource estimation process\, the principles of public disclosure and the role of the resource geologist. \n 
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/annual-general-meeting/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180910T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T021659
CREATED:20180429T152326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180903T185005Z
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SUMMARY:General meeting
DESCRIPTION:Project Generators: Exploration & Investment\nMineral exploration is an inherently capital-intensive and risky business. Despite the large number of junior explorers there is only the very occasional spectacular discovery\, meaning the odds of success are stacked against individual resource investors. This geological risk can then be compounded by the ‘all eggs in one basket’ approach that many typical juniors employ whereby shareholders are offered exposure to only one or two flagship projects that focus on a single commodity within the same jurisdiction. \nProject Generators\, however\, offer an alternative: a large portfolio of projects that is diversified by commodity and country\, helping to insulate the company against political and economic risks\, with joint venture partners being sought to fund the more advanced and expensive phases of exploration. In addition\, a continually-fed pipeline of new projects forces the company to quickly assess and dispassionately relinquish unprospective ground\, allowing it to focus on only those with the greatest potential\, therefore increasing the chance of making an economic discovery.\nThis presentation will introduce the concept of ‘Project Generators’\, providing an overview of the business model and attractiveness for investment\, as well as outlining how they conduct their exploration programmes and what to look out for when considering investing …!
URL:https://minsouth.org.uk/event/general-meeting-3/
CATEGORIES:General meeting
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