Venue: Astana Park inn hotel Selecting the ‘Optimum’ Pit” Selecting the optimum pit shell as the basis for design is often not as straightforward as it appears, with a number of pitfalls for the unwary. This discussion covers aspects related to risk and return, the ‘hill of value’, value and size plateaux, incremental and average strip ratios, inflexions in value versus shell size. The process is not simply the case of selecting the optimum value shell. The choice inherently involves consideration of corporate objectives, risk minimisation, variance on translation to design, optimising value and/or mine life and leaving open optionality for future exploration and underground development. Case study examples will be highlighted that illustrate what to do and what not to do. “Sorting the Chaff from the Wheat – Mining Dilution and Loss – Misconceptions, Miscalculations and Lies” Mining projects often assume nominal or benchmark estimates for dilution and loss that turn out to be quite different in practice, often obscured by either a lack or inaccuracy in mine reconciliation. This discussion focuses on some of the modern techniques adopted for more reliable evaluation of these modifying factors, supported by case study examples. It will cover a variety of aspects including techniques; industry benchmarks; halo and mixing zones; block regularisation and the selective mining unit (SMU); equipment size considerations; ore contact surface roughness/amplitude; mining accuracy; orebody dip/geometry, continuity, style of mineralization (eg. vein, stockwork, seam); modelling techniques (regularisation, dilution halo, perimeter to area and volume to surface area ratios), assessing dilutant grades; modern mineable resource optimisation and mineable shape optimisation (MRO/MSO) techniques for open pit and underground; internal/external or planned/unplanned or planned/operational dilution and loss; and, the mine reconciliation interface. Case studies will be presented highlighting modern techniques and industry faux pas. “Adding Value through Appropriate Integration of Hydrogeology and Rock Mechanics Studies” Pit slope optimisation, and through this the pit design, should be treated as an optimisation cycle in which iterative processes and data exchange between the mine design team, geotechnical engineers and hydrogeologists should take place to try and achieve the best pit design for a project, in accordance with corporate objectives. Often this combines consideration of aspects such as pit value, mine life and further exploration potential. The project risks increase with pit depth, such that minor changes in slope angles can be the difference between make or break for a project. Nowadays, new technologies are available for adding value to integrated studies and the benefits of early stage geotechnical and hydrogeological data capture can help identify areas of risk in the early stages of project development and allow a more focused and detailed investigation to be undertaken to maximise the reliability of the data, minimise the risk and optimise the overall project returns. Current trends in information technologies have not surpassed mining industry, bringing a variety of options to collect, process and analyze different kinds of data generated at all development stages of the projects. The presentation will concentrate on some recent achievements in assessing geotechnical risk factors in underground mines and visualizing hazards in 4 D format (spacial and temporal representation) as well as monitoring possible influence of mining operations on the surface infrastructure in order to reduce possible impact and make stakeholders aware of the actions needed. Underground part will cover possible applications of state-of-the art geotechnical hazard management system developed by Mira Geoscience (Canada) and applied successfully in major underground mines to produce quantitative forecast of possible geotechnical risk. Surface part will be based on DMT own development allowing timely recognition of changes in the surface environment around the mine and reacting in appropriate manner. Organised by the Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises (AGMP) – Development of local personnel: key challenges and solutions;
Organiser: SRK Consulting
SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd
Consultant (Mining Engineering)
Organiser: SRK Consulting
SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd
Principal Consultant
Organiser: SRK Consulting
SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Organiser: DMT GmbH & Co. KG
DMT
Head of sales
– Training and retraining programs;
– Consolidation of the mining companies in matters of training and retraining;
– Enhancing the prestige of employment in Mining and Metals sector;
– New training and re-training technologies.
Organiser: Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises
Bakhyt Manasbayeva
Republican Association of Mining and Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises (AGMP)
Deputy Executive Director
Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises
Executive Director
ERG "Research and Development Engineering Center”
Director of the Mining Department
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Director of the Department of Professional, Technical and Post-Secondary Education
Kasipkor
Chairman of the Board
Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises (AGMP)
First Deputy Executive Director
The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic Kazakhstan "Atameken"
Director, Department of Development of Human Capital
Polymetal Eurasia LLP
Human Resources Director
Kazakhmys
Head of training and development department
School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University
Dean and Professor
School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University
Associate Professor
Venue: Radisson Astana Hotel Session themes: Session themes: Session themes: Session themes: MineVenture invites junior mining companies, entrepreneurs and innovators to present venture projects in the following categories: Prospecting and exploration Projects for the study and exploration of mineral deposits in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Breakthrough technology and innovation Modernisation or development of new technology or equipment for the discovery, extraction, enrichment and processing of ores and minerals. New technology for improving production efficiency or reducing costs. JURY PANEL Tobyl Zhylkybayev, President, Centras Venture Fund Nikolai Yenshin, General Manager, SRK Consulting (Kazakhstan) Ltd Saule Urazayeva, Executive director, KAZRC Association Phil Newall, Managing Director, Wardell Armstrong International Ltd Alexander Lopatnikov, Managing Director, AAR Stefan Scholz, Managing Partner, ScholzvonGleich VENTURE AND INVESTMENT PROJECTS
Alexander Lopatnikov
American Appraisal
Managing Director
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Principal Banker, Energy and Natural Resources, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia
Wardell Armstrong International Ltd
Managing Director
American Appraisal
Managing Director
Polymetal Eurasia
General Director
Nikolai Yenshin
SRK Consulting (Kazakhstan) Ltd
General Manager
Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises
Executive Director
The State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil use
Head of Department of subsoil use policy
State Enterprise «State Geological Information Center»
Chief Executive Officer
AMC Consultants
Director, Principal Mining Engineer
KAZRC Association
Executive director
Alexander Lopatnikov
American Appraisal
Managing Director
Bryanston Resources
Senior Project Manager
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Senior Research Analyst
Eurasian Development Bank
Managing Director
CSA Global
Director – Russia/CIS
Centras Venture Fund
President
Pavel Shevchenko
IMC Montan
Project Manager. Mining Engineer
EY
Sustainability Services Leader in Central Asia, Ukraine and Belarus
Mining Commodities Consulting Ltd
Managing Partner
Zhairem GOK
Executive Director for Production
SRK Consulting (North America)
Group Chairman and Corporate Consultant
Kounrad Copper Company LLP / Central Asia Metals plc
Chief Engineer
DMT
Innovation Manager
ThoroughTec Simulation LLC.
General Director
IntelliSense.io
CEO / Founder
Nikolai Yenshin
SRK Consulting (Kazakhstan) Ltd
General Manager
JSC "Volkovgeologia"
Adviser to the Chairman of the Board
Atygai Gold Mining
Deputy Director of technology and mining
TOO “Balkhash Prospecting company”
Director
Research institute "B-PROJECT" LLP
DirectorOrganiser: Ministry for Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Timur Toktabayev
Ministry for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Vice Minister for Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Majilis Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan
MP, Secretary of the Committee on Ecology and Nature Management
Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Director of the Subsoil Use Management Department
Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises
Executive Director
GIZ (German International Cooperation)
Programme Director "Mineral Resources for Development"
Eurasian Group
Executive Director for Legal Affairs
CSA Global Pty Ltd.
Principal Resource Geologist
Venue: Radisson Astana Hotel
Session themes:
- Managing the operational profitability of a gold mine – technological challenges and solutions
- Reducing gold production costs and capital expenditures (transport, spare parts, fuel, electricity and personnel costs optimisation).
- Low cost gold production – innovative methods and technologies of ore extraction and processing.
- Development and introduction of new energy efficient technologies for gold and metals extraction.
- Advanced methods of ore preparation and grade quality control.
- Technologies of processing refractory ores.
- Turning gold mine waste into a secondary resource.
Mikhail Leskov
Russian Society of Experts for Sub-soil Use/OERN
Head of Section for Evaluation and Valuation for Mineral Properties
RG Gold LLP
CEO
Outotec Kazakhstan
Regional Representative of Outotec in Uzbekistan
SRK Consulting (UK)
Senior Consultant (Mining Geology)
EZOCM-Engineering
General Director
JSC “Krastsvetmet"
Deputy Director General, Refinery
Anakon Group
Enrichment Engineer
Session themes:
- Discovery of new deposits in Central Asia: prospects and challenges
- Big or economically viable? What types of new deposits companies are looking for?
- Creating result-oriented exploration programs – practical approaches and technologies
- Exploring from above: potential use of satellite imaging, airborne geophysical surveys and UAVs for increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness for large-area surveyingTime is money: improving speed and accuracy of exploration with the aid of real-time and cloud base analytical solutions
- Application of 3D geological modelling systems for synergy between the interpretation of geological data and mine modelling construction
- Geochemical analysis of hidden ores
Antony Benham
IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd
Chief Operations Officer
Kazzinc
Regional exploration manager
Natural History Museum
Head, Central Eurasian Mineral Studies and Research Leader
Phoenix Geophysics LTD
Vice-President
DMT GmbH & Co. KG
Geophysicist, Head of Department
DigitalGlobe
Principal Scientist
Aarhus geophysics
Senior geophysicist
Gelios
General Director
MINE CLOSURE AND LAND RECLAMATION - NEW REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
Session themes:
- A comparative overview of regulatory approaches to mine closure and land reclamation
- Mine site reclamation incentives.
- Preparing technical and social-economic plan of mine site closure and land reclamation.
- Financing Mine reclamation – borrowers and lenders’ perspectives.
- Rehabilitation of land after coal, copper, uranium and gold mining – case studies of successfully reclaimed mining sites.
- Reclamation of dump tailings – before and after case studies.
- Mine reclamation after natural disaster.
- Evaluating land productivity after reclamation
Jeff Parshley
SRK Consulting (North America)
Group Chairman and Corporate Consultant
SRK Consulting
Environmental Consultant
GIZ (German International Cooperation)
Technical Specialist
O'Kane Consultants
Director and Senior geo-environmental consultant
Orsu Metals Kazakhstan
General Director
SRK Consulting (North America)
Group Chairman and Corporate Consultant
Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Director of the Subsoil Use Management Department
Finding the best possible technological solution for a mine planning, construction, modernisation or closure is a complex task and often involves analysis of alternative offers. Striving to achieve greater efficiency in knowledge exchange between the local mining companies and vendors the MINEX Central Asia forum is organising MineTech – an international competition of mining challenges and solutions.
The competition is designed around a win-win formula: the mining companies will get a wide spectrum of turnkey solutions from local and international providers. The vendors will have a chance to demonstrate the application of their products and technologies for resolving specific cases. The forum delegates will participate in lively discussions and learn about new technologies and solution.
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“Processing”
“Digital technologies”
Anton Roshchin
ERG Research and Development Engineering Centre
Chairman of the Board
Alexander Sorokin
Eurasia Group
Director of operational efficiency
Sergey Opanasenko
Eurasia Group
Executive Director for Operational Efficiency and Innovation
“REEF Centrifugal Technologies” LLP
Technical Director
SRK
Geochemist
Gamayun
Technology Director
JSC "D.V.Sokolski Institute of fuel, catalysis and electrochemistry"
Head of the laboratory of catalytic synthesis
MICROMINE Central Asia
Pitram system specialist
Institute of Space Techniques and Technology
Director
IntelliSense.io
CEO / Founder
DMT
Head of sales
Yandex Data Factory
Chief Operating Officer
Session themes:
- State and prospects of development of the world uranium industry
- Present and future of international cooperation in Kazakhstan’s uranium industry
- Uranium exploration program overview
- Challenges of roll-front exploration of uranium deposits
- Cost reduction methods – innovative technological solutions
Alexander Boytsov
Uranium One Group
Director of Resources Development Program
KPMG
Partner, Head of Corporate Finance in Kazakhstan
Uranium One Group
Director of Resources Development Program
Kazatomprom
Chief director of production and NTC
Volkovgeology
Chairman of the Board
ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. (JSC Atomredmetzoloto)
Director of development innovation and technology
CSA Global Pty Ltd.
Principal Resource Geologist
Seversk Technological Institute of the National Research Nuclear University
Deputy Head
"All-Russian Research Institute of Mineral Resources" (VIMS)
General Director
Session themes:
- New projects: how to build on time and on budget?
- Integrating mine design solutions at the planning stage.
- Unified management systems for improving productivity and efficiency.
- A mine without borders: managing cross-border mining projects.
- Supplying and servicing mining enterprises – balancing costs and delivery terms.
- Outsourcing – benefits and wider implementation opportunities.
- Modular approach to mine construction and modernisation.
Nikolai Yenshin
SRK Consulting (Kazakhstan) Ltd
General Manager
Rostec-Business Development
Deputy Director General for Resource Management Projects
JSC "VIOGEM"
Deputy General Director
JSC "VIOGEM"
Head of the Laboratory of Geoinformation Systems