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Unexpected answers

Editor

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n the first magazine of 2016 I should wish all our readers a happy new year. I do, of course, while acknowledging that some of you will probably not have one.

This time last year, in its Mining Industry Outlook 2015, Deloitte advised that “mining companies should institute a long-term cost management and operational improvement culture across the supply chain, from pit to port, by investing in technology.” And you did – in fleet management, predictive maintenance, tyre monitoring, collision avoidance, remote control, machine automation, environmental monitoring . . . you name it.

In the relentless pursuit of safety and productivity improvements, industry inevitably turns to technology.

Internet connectivity has suddenly become all the rage and the Internet of Things is the latest buzz word on everyone’s lips. I’d love to have the contract for half the sensors installed in mines and equipment around the world last year.

Mines are getting safer and smarter as a result of all the data we are collecting, but commodity prices are still going down. At the time of writing, media headlines are screaming about the ‘global turmoil’ in financial markets as share values

collapse, wiping $billions off company values, and all because of the continuing slump in the price of oil. Has nobody noticed the continuing slump in the price of iron ore, copper, nickel, zinc and aluminium lately?

Unfortunately, no matter how smart we get, we can’t force our customers to increase demand. We’re making too much, so all our efficiencies can do is secure a slim segment of market share, until the market starts growing again.

Mining is a long term business and miners get used to cycles in the economy. Perhaps the cycles are getting longer, but they are still cycles. Prices will rebound eventually, and markets with them. The trick for miners is to be in a good place when that happens.

Having advised the industry to invest in technology last year, Deloitte holds its hands up in this year’s almanac Tracking the Trends 2016. “Miners can no longer afford to look at trends and technologies in isolation,” they say. “To find solutions, we need to ask the right questions and be willing to consider unexpected answers.” Meaning, they don’t know either.

Whatever they might be, we hope you find your unexpected answers this year!

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The Editor: Unexpected answers

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Waterfall Security Solutions: Protecting the connected mine

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Seeing is believing: Teachers’ mining tour

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Barrick Gold: Projecting a golden future

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Terex Finlay launches new impact crusher

Page 6: Monthly news & features Best pump manufacturers New drill from Atlas Copco ICL and Yunnan Yuntianhua Smuggling in Tanzania Oyu Tolgoi financing Ultra-pure graphene Glencore debt reduction EU support for Mozambique Internet of Things cluster Lundin Gold in Ecuador Australian miners’ investment plans Sand lab tests fracking materials

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News in Brief Mine managers and senior

decision-makers responding to a survey

by Timetric’s Mining Intelligence Center nominated Weir Minerals as the leading manufacturer of mining pumps, dewatering pumps and submersibles, with 24% of the total nominations. This was followed by Xylem with 14% and Indian-based Kirloskar in third place with 9%. Australian manufacturer AllightSykes was next with 5% of the total pool and KSB received 4 per cent.

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Over the next five years ICL and YTH plan to build specialty plants and triple the JV’s white phosphoric acid capacity.

The partners have also established a phosphate R&D platform in Kunming (Yunnan province) to develop nextgeneration phosphate-based products and process technologies for the YPH JV and their respective businesses. * * *

The smuggling of minerals costs Tanzania $2.7 million in lost revenue every year. Official data indicates that between July 2012 and December 2015, Tanzanian authorities foiled 87 smuggling attempts of minerals, intercepting about 2,870kg of metals and saving the state $9.4 million. The Energy and Minerals Ministry said raw tanzanite worth $1.2 million was seized in December at the Kilimanjaro International Airport en route to India.

Mongolian mine secures $4.4 billion financing

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espite the worldwide slump in commodity prices, a group of international lenders has pledged $4.4 billion in financing for a copper-gold mining project in the South Gobi region of Mongolia.

Oyu Tolgoi has secured the finance for the underground mine development from international financial institutions and export credit agencies representing the governments of the United States, Canada and Australia, along with 15 commercial banks.

In October 2009, Oyu Tolgoi (then, Ivanhoe Mines Mongolia) and its majority shareholder, Turquoise Hill Resources (then, Ivanhoe), signed an investment agreement with the Government of Mongolia, itself an indirect significant shareholder in Oyu Tolgoi, for the construction and operation of the Oyu Tolgoi mining complex. Global miner Rio Tinto is the majority shareholder in Turquoise Hill.

Construction of an open-pit mine was completed on schedule in less than 24 months and production started in 2013.

More than 1.5 million tonnes of copper concentrate have now been produced from Oyu Tolgoi. While all of the copper concentrate currently produced is from the open pit mine, more than 80 per cent of the value of Oyu Tolgoi lies in the proposed underground mine.

“This project finance agreement is significant in the industry and is the next important step towards further development of the world class Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia,” said Rio Tinto Copper and Coal chief executive

Jean-Sébastien Jacques.

“This kind of mining development partnership model sets the industry benchmark for future schemes and underscores Rio Tinto’s commitment to responsible and prudent growth.

Long-term copper fundamentals remain strong and Oyu Tolgoi as a tier one asset will be a globally important source of supply as the market moves back into structural deficit over the next few years.”

Oyu Tolgoi is the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold project. The deal is notable in reaching financial close at a time of low commodity prices, demonstrating that well-structured deals can attract large-scale funding even in the face of current market conditions.

The lender group included the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, Export Development Canada, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation and US Export-Import Bank, as well as a syndicate of commercial banks including BNP Paribas and Standard Charter Bank.

The lender group was advised by international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

The deal is the largest emerging market mining project financing to date, the largest Central Asian project financing to date and the largest project in Mongolian history. By the time it reaches full production in 2021, the International Monetary Fund estimates that Oyu Tolgoi will generate up to a third of Mongolia’s GDP. •

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Ultra-pure graphene found in graphite deposits in Australia

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raphene, the high-grade layered conductive material extracted from graphite, was discovered as recently as 2004, but the world’s understanding of this “wonder material” has moved at breakneck speed ever since.

Now South Australian commodity-developer Archer Exploration has confirmed the existence of ultra-pure graphene from graphite deposits at its Campoona mine on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. The company hopes the ultra-high purity of this graphene will allow for a more efficient and scalable resource, giving it a strong foothold in the world’s emerging graphene market.

“We now know that from our high-grade graphite deposit we can make pure graphene and - like anything pure – this is extremely rare and difficult to find,” said Archer Exploration chief executive Gerard Anderson. “Its purity is of paramount importance because most of the companies developing technologies using graphene are looking to exploit its conductive properties.”

Heading the research into the initial graphene production at Campoona was Professor Dusan Losic of the University of Adelaide’s School of Chemical Engineering.

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Graphene is a carbon that has a much better electrical conductivity than copper. Its tensile properties make it around 260 times stronger than steel and it is regarded as the most conductive material ever discovered.

Ten years ago, the European Commission formed the Graphene Flagship, inviting universities and industry representatives to collaborate on developing the nascent graphene market. So far, five billion euros has been committed to developing applications for graphene – only a handful of which have made it to market.

Tennis racquet manufacturer Head has developed a tennis racquet for Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova using graphene, and graphene-enhanced light bulbs and bicycle tyres are also in development.

The 141-member industry group, which includes multinational electronics and engineering company Bosch and toy manufacturer LEGO, is hopeful of taking graphene’s development from the laboratory stage through to the many commercial applications for which graphene has been recommended.

“Imagine one day having a window made of graphene, or house paint with graphene properties such that your whole house can become one entire PV panel,” says Anderson. “Those are the sorts of exciting applications we hope to see for graphene down-the-track.”

The university will now continue to test the scaling-up process, while also furthering its research into potential applications, including using graphene as a membrane in environmental applications such as separating oil, heavy metals and other pollutants from water.

“Right now the cost of producing graphene is very expensive at around $200 a gram, so it is very important to have these high grade deposits to ensure we can develop scalable, low-cost production,” says Professor Losic.

High purity graphene is in highdemand from the world’s leading technology companies, many of whom are developing applications for the conductive material in everything from batteries to solar panels and wastewater

“The cost of producing graphene is very expensive at around $200 a gram” treatment.

Anderson says that although the global graphene market is still embryonic, the many potential applications mean the world’s leading electronic and technology companies will continue to

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Glencore announces further debt reduction plans

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December, Anglo-Swiss mining and commodity trading conglomerate Glencore updated investors on the progress made against the debt reduction initiatives it announced on 7 September, and announced new targets for the end of 2016.

“In September, we announced a number of measures to reduce our debt,” said CEO Ivan Glasenberg.

“Today we show significant delivery on those commitments, with $8.7 billion achieved to date, and are able to announce an increase in our net debt reduction target measures by almost $3 billion to $13 billion.

Glencore is well placed to continue to be cash generative in the current environment – and at even lower prices. We retain a high degree of

flexibility and will continue to review the need to act further as required.”

The new targets will reduce Glencore’s overall debts to between $18bn-$19 billion (£11.8bn-£12.5bn) by the end of 2016, down from a target in the “low $20 billions” a few months ago.

Glencore (whose name is a derivation of Global Energy Commodity Resources) became indebted to the tune of $30 billion after the acquisition of Xstrata in 2013, a deal that added mines all over the world to what was already the world’s largest commodities trading company.

The company has cut production at some of its mines, a measure which others sometimes appear reluctant to take. “It’s important to preserve the asset base and not create more supply in an oversupplied market,” said Glasenberg.

“If we’re not getting the right margin, we will decrease production.”

In its recent update, Glencore outlined further cuts to capital expenditure, which will fall to $3.8 billion by 2016, down from a target of $5 billion, and further savings in operating costs.

The company will also put more assets up for sale. The sales process has already started for its Australian copper mine in Cobar, New South Wales, and its Lomas Bayas copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile.

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities.

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“It is important to build on this progress whilst making the best use of Mozambique’s impressive economic potential, notably in the sectors of gas, mining, hydro-energy and agriculture.

Mozambique could also benefit enormously from its strategic position in Southern Africa. The key issue today is therefore how to make economic growth inclusive and sustainable, while maintaining political stability.”

The support is granted under the National Indicative Programme for Mozambique for the period up to 2020, and will cover areas including the

promotion of the democratic system in the country, transparency, accountability and the rule of law and support for public institutions, in line with the Government of Mozambique’s priorities.

The previous award of €747 million under the National Indicative programme for Mozambique from 2007 to 2013 focused on transport infrastructure and regional integration, as well as on agriculture and rural development to promote sustainable economic growth in rural areas, enhance food security and promote trade flows.

to provide €734 million in economic support to Mozambique.

European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica signed the agreement alongside Ms. Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane, Mozambique’s Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

“There have been significant and positive political and economic developments in Mozambique since the end of the civil war in 1992,” said Commissioner Mimica.

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Internet of Things cluster set to boost South Australian mining

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‘Internet of Things’ cluster designed specifically for the mining and resources sector is set to boost productivity, efficiency and safety in the industry.

The cluster – believed to be the first of its kind in the world – also aims to encourage industry collaboration, streamline the flow of information and allow real-time decisions.

The Australian Information Industry Association will partner with the South Australian Government to facilitate cluster members to make investments and gain access to relevant supply chains.

AIIA is Australia’s peak industry association for organisations in the digital economy and has more than 20,000 contacts across all industries.

CEO Suzanne Campbell said combining data gathering devices such as sensors with internet capability and applying analytical tools would provide “wisdom, truth and insights” to be shared across the cluster.

Campbell said areas of Internet of Things application in the industry included real-time machine and sensor integration, fleet operations monitoring, plant dashboards and trend analysis, ore-grade sensing and sales and supply chain management.

“There’s expansive use of sensor technologies in the mining, resources and energy sector and that includes things as simple as sensors on drill bits

to make sure the maximum utilization of the tool is achieved in the extraction of ore,” she said.

“There’s a vast amount of opportunities with regard to the devices but the device is only the beginning of the story, it’s the collection of the data and the analysis and manipulation of the data to create those insights to allow businesses to make decisions in new and different

so we’re looking forward to a very energetic start to the year,” she said.

Interim cluster facilitator Martin Woodcock said the concept of a regional cluster was not new – in Europe alone there are about 10,000 of them – but the combination of the Internet of Things with mining, energy and resources in one cluster was unique. “We don’t believe there is another one around the world,” he said.

“The concept behind the cluster is how to get companies to collaborate in more effective ways than they do at the moment so what we’re looking to do is not only get complementary companies to come together but to get competitive companies together to generate new things through the collaboration that the cluster offers.”

South Australia is a globally significant producer of copper, uranium and zircon. It also produces iron ore, zinc, lead, silver, industrial minerals (including salt, silica sand and gypsum) and extractive materials (including dimension stone and opal). Mineral production from the state’s commodities reached a record $5.6 billion in 2013–14, increasing by $700 million (16%) from $4.9 billion in 2012–13.

The South Australian Government, which is contributing $750,000 over three years to the Internet of Things project, has helped establish several clusters in recent years including in aerospace, specialized vehicles, aquifer recharge and medical devices.

“The collection and analysis of data is where the real power sits with the Internet of Things” ways - that’s where the real power sits with the Internet of Things.”

Campbell said the primarily virtual cluster would begin with members of AIIA’s mining & energy resources special interest group and branch out to include universities, technology firms and supply chain operators in the mining and energy resources sector.

“But we have a commitment to the state government to go to the market to establish a much broader collective of industry participants to join the cluster •

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Lundin Gold in agreement with Ecuador over Fruta del Norte

anadian miner Lundin Gold has reached agreement with the Government of Ecuador for the development of its Fruta del Norte project.

Fruta del Norte is among the largest and highest grade undeveloped gold projects in the world and Lundin Gold has negotiated the right to develop the project and produce gold for an initial period of 25 years, subject to renewal.

Lundin Gold has agreed to pay the Government of Ecuador a royalty of 5% of net smelter revenues from production. It will pay an advance royalty of $65 million, with $25 million being due upon execution of the agreement.

In exchange, the Government will not charge a so-called extraordinary revenue tax (‘windfall tax’) until Lundin recovers its development

investment.

In December, the Government of Ecuador passed legislation to extend Value-Added Tax recovery to the mining sector. As a result, VAT paid by Lundin Gold after 1 January 2018 will be refunded once the company begins to generate export sales. The current rate of VAT is 12% in Ecuador.

By 17 June 2016, the company must submit an application to change the Fruta del Norte Project’s official status from exploration phase to exploitation phase. The company is also required to complete a general work and investment plan for the Government of Ecuador’s approval, which will be based on the results of the feasibility study.

The company says that the feasibility study for the Fruta del Norte Project is progressing well, with completion planned in the second quarter of 2016.

Lundin Gold’s property in Southeast Ecuador consists of 36 mining concessions covering an area of approximately 86,000 hectares. The Fruta del Norte Project comprises three concessions and covers an area of approximately 5,000 hectares, located approximately 80 kilometres east of the City of Loja, which is the fourth largest city in Ecuador.

The historical work carried out by previous owners, including Aurelian Resources Inc. and Kinross Gold, from its discovery in 2006 to 2014, has enabled Lundin Gold to move quickly towards feasibility and ultimately a production decision. The previous work completed on the Fruta del Norte Project, including various internal studies, indicates that the deposit can potentially support a large scale, low cost underground mining operation.

Australian mines are planning

monitoring, energy management and collision avoidance, as well as UAVs and wearable technologies.

The results show the highest share of respondents (88%) have invested in environmental management technologies, followed by an assembly of technologies focused around vehicles and mobile equipment. Five other technologies in which more than 80% of respondents’ have invested are fleet management (85%), predictive maintenance (85%), tyre monitoring (83%), scheduling and shift optimization (81%) and collision avoidance technologies (80%).

“The results show the Australian mining industry recognises

environmental accountability, social responsibility and commercial success are not inseparable,” said Nez Guevara, Senior Analyst at Timetric’s MIC. Over the coming two years, significant shares of those yet to invest are expected to make investments in tyre monitoring (53% of those yet to invest), collision avoidance and proximity detection (50%), and remote control and machine automation technologies with 48%.

In total over the next two years, 92% of mines are expected to have tyre monitoring technology implemented, some 90% will have collision avoidance technologies and 77% will have implemented remote control and machine automation on site.

to increase investment in equipmentrelated technology in the next two years, according to the latest survey by Timetric’s Mining Intelligence Center.

Between October and December 2015, Timetric’s MIC surveyed 100 mine managers and other senior decision-makers in operating mines in Australia. The survey asked respondents to identify, from a set of 12 different mine site technologies, which categories have already been invested in and whether or not they would be investing in the next two years.

Respondents were asked to consider a wide range of technologies including: fleet management, environmental

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Sand lab breaks new ground for mining and oil and gas industries

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hi-tech lab to test silica sand and ceramics for their fracking ability is helping a South Australian company break new ground in the mining industry.

LAB SA has opened a new proppant testing lab in Adelaide to service the emerging unconventional oil and gas industry. It is one of only a few independent labs of its kind in Australia.

The global proppant industry is expected to grow to more than $19 billion a year by 2019. Proppants are made of high quality silica sand or ceramics and are used in fracking fluids.

Fracking involves explosions deep in the well to open fractures. The fluid is then injected at high pressure into the oil and gas well fractures. As the fractures close, the proppant “props” them open for a period of time to allow the flow of oil or gas through the fractures into the well.

LAB SA general manager Andrew Attard said the company had helped develop “shockcrete” for mining companies at Olympic Dam in South Australia and Broken Hill, but the proppant test lab would allow it to expand into other parts of the mining industry.

The new lab, which received $100,000 in grant funding from the South Australian Government’s Mining

and Petroleum Services Centre of Excellence, has so far tested silica sands for their proppant suitability for mining companies in the United States and the Australian states of Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

“Now that we’ve got our foot in the mining resources area we can use our experience in soils, geotechnical, concrete and raw materials testing to move into other areas,” Attard said. “It’s something our clients have wanted and have actively asked us to pursue.

“Hopefully there’s some movement into Asia with some independent verification. People are just starting to hear about what we do and what we can offer … everyone’s heard about the magic proppants – they’re a highly sought after commodity so a lot of companies are sending in materials saying ‘can we use this or use that’.”

LAB SA started 10 years ago as an independent construction materials testing lab working in the civil, commercial and residential construction industries.

Attard said different silica properties such as size of sand grain and crush capabilities were suited to different wells depending on their depth and pressure.

“The right choice of proppant is absolutely critical,” he said. “It’s not a

new technology but it’s a technology that’s making companies reassess the viability of older wells … to see if they can reinvigorate them to get more output from them.”

Attard said South Australian silica sand was of a high quality but more needed to be discovered and companies were still learning about what processes were needed to clean it before it could be used as a proppant.

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“We are close to the local suppliers and we’ve got a unique understanding of local products so we can get testing results done in a matter of days rather than weeks and that gives us about a 4050 per cent reduction in testing costs.

“Because of our independence and our ability to work across the three areas of soils, quarry materials and concrete we’ve got a good chance to make an impact in quite a diverse range of areas in the mining and resources sector. It’s one of our key strategic goals now to make the most of this impetus we’ve got from this new proppant lab.”

South Australian Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said LAB SA had seized the opportunity to become an integral part of a local supply chain and develop technology from scratch.

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ou’re working underground when you hear the alarm. The ventilation system has failed. You’ll have to evacuate. It might come back on in a few minutes but you don’t take chances underground. You head for the surface, grumbling.

In the control room, the operator is surrounded by screens and keyboards, but try as he might, he can’t get the ventilation system to start up again. He has no choice. It’s everybody out. What he doesn’t (and may never) know, is that his computers are not responding because he’s no longer controlling them. Someone else is doing that, half a world away, thinking about what he will do with the money he makes in the market after disrupting this mine’s production plans.

It may sound like a plot from a James Bond film, but the risks are real and the mining industry is beginning to engage experts like Waterfall Security Solutions to protect them from this kind of attack.

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In September last year the company declared that its autonomous truck fleet was 12 per cent more productive than its manned fleet. In the same statement, Rio also said that the use of autonomous drills had resulted in an operational saving of 8 per cent. Now, with AutoHaul, Rio has introduced the world’s first fully-autonomous heavy haul, long distance railway system.

The average mining company is not nearly as advanced as this, but internet connectivity is a growing trend. There’s no doubting the efficiency improvements it brings, but it may also attract the attention of international criminals. Every time a mine announces a new connectivity programme, unless it has the appropriate level of protection, it is saying, “here I am, come and hack me.”

“Almost every industry is becoming more heavily automated, using more and more standard computing and networking components,” says Andrew Ginter, VP industrial security at Waterfall Security Solutions. “Every time you do something like that it increases your vulnerability. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is coming to mines. It’s the latest buzz word, along with ‘Cloud’.”

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n its relentless pursuit of improvements in safety and efficiency, industry inevitably turns to the latest technology.

In the 21st century, this is internet connectivity. The philosophy is simple. The more data we get, the more control we have. The more we can measure, the more we can improve.

And so it goes.

Canadian miner Goldcorp has deployed a solution from Cisco Systems to achieve the insight and control it wanted across its Eléonore mine. “Having a proper tracking system gives us the ability to support ventilation on demand,” said Pascal Morin, Manager, Technology and Communications at Goldcorp. “At any time and in every area, it allows us to send the exact volume of air where we need it, when we need it.”

You see where I’m coming from?

Rio Tinto is another company setting the pace towards ever more connectivity with its Mine of the Future programme. In an essay on the subject on its corporate website, Rio proclaims that its Operations Centre in Perth is “a state-of-the-art facility

Automation technology is a slow growth market, he explains, so when something new comes along, like IIoT or the Cloud, everyone jumps on it. “IIoT is just a continuation of the trend towards more computers. The opportunity now is in what is being automated. The most modern mines are now using driverless vehicles. This is a new opportunity for automation. Cloud is another one. You put your data up there and analyse it. Seeing the data remotely and diagnosing problems remotely becomes a new service industry. Vendors rush to set up services where they reach into their customers’ networks, gather all kinds of data and analyse it, then send their conclusions back and get paid for it. This is a new kind of business opportunity that didn’t exist before.”

You’ve probably seen some of the advertising. ‘What if you could get complete visibility and control over everything that’s going on at every site in real time?’ they say. And what if this makes it possible for somebody else to do the same? is something they don’t say.

A business opportunity for miners and their suppliers is also an opportunity for criminals. “The trade off between increased connectivity and increased vulnerability is one that businesses in many industries are failing to take into account,” says Ginter.

“They see the benefits more clearly than they see the risks.”

While reports of stolen bank details and credit card numbers are becoming commonplace on our TV news, we don’t hear so much about cyber attacks on infrastructure or industrial assets, but this doesn’t mean they’re not happening. A multinational industry giant with customers all over the world will naturally be reluctant to admit voluntarily that its security has been breached.

Furthermore, attackers who don’t want to be discovered will disguise their interventions so their victims don’t know they have been attacked. “This is why we don’t hear about attacks,” confirms Ginter, “but if you look at the surveys, 70 to 80 per cent of people say they have been compromised in

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“If someone attacks the server in the vendor’s headquarters, they could take control of your trucks” the last 12 months and an even greater number expect to be compromised next year.”

The risk is everywhere

I ask if the greater risk is in remote operations rather than simply monitoring and data analysis. But I should have known. The risk is everywhere. “Think how monitoring works,” says Ginter. “When you gather all of your information into a database, it just sits there until you ask it to do something. Even with monitoring, you have to send commands to the database. Now people are sending commands from their central Cloud monitoring site into databases at customers’ sites all over the world.”

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secrets,” says Ginter. “The question that people are asking now is, has it already happened or how soon will it happen that a whole industry develops around attacking industrial sites? If the operator can control the mine by pressing buttons, anyone who takes over those computers can do the same.”

If you have automated vehicles, you introduce another vector for cyber attackers. The marketing noise surrounding them is deafening. You know the kind of thing. ‘Our remote monitoring system is standard equipment on most new machines,’ is typical of the messages they scream it at you – but at the same time, they scream them at the criminals, too.

“The leading equipment vendors have connections to their own machines,” explains Ginter. “They all have a server somewhere connected to all their heavy equipment, extracting operational data about the air in the tyres or the condition of the engine. Even if you don’t have a fully automated mine you are still at risk if someone attacks the server in their headquarters, because they could take control of your trucks.”

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Let’s be clear, when we refer to cyber attacks, we’re not talking about teenagers fooling around in their bedrooms. “We generally grade adversaries according to their capabilities,” says Ginter, “which you can measure in terms of talent and financial resources. You find more ‘hacktivists’ with an axe to grind in mining than you do in other industries and they can be very clever, but they tend to be volunteers who don’t profit financially from what they are doing. They can be well organised, they can be very smart and persistent, but they tend to have limited financial resources. Contrast that with organised crime. They have all the attributes of the hacktivists, but they also have money, because they profit from their activities.”

All software can be hacked

So how easy is it, I wonder, to hack into an industrial control system? Ginter puts it into perspective. “Everything I’ve said can be summed up into two statements. One: every message

that any computer sends to any other computer could be an attack. Two: All software can be hacked.

“I wrote software for 25 years,” he explains. “I didn’t deliberately put bugs into all the software I wrote, but all the software I wrote had mistakes in it. All software has bugs and some bugs are security holes. You just have to find the mistake.”

Finding the mistake can take time, but some people spend their lives looking for security holes. “It can take months to find a new mistake in a thoroughly studied system like a Microsoft operating system,” says Ginter, “but most industrial control systems have not been studied in this way. There are lots of bugs to be discovered in these industrial systems but anyone who does study them in their spare time and then finds something is threatened with legal action by the vendor’s lawyers. In the IT world, if you report a bug to Oracle they thank you for telling them and give you a substantial reward. In our industry they sue you!

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about in the underground mines are the safety systems,” Ginter continues. “All it takes is a command to say ‘turn off the blowers’ or ‘turn off the water pumps’ and you have a dangerous situation. There are risks there that people need to be designing their networks to address and I don’t see much of it happening.”

While the next target depends on the specific motivation of the next cyber attacker, it would be a mistake to base security defences on the likelihood of an attack. What’s unlikely today may be more likely tomorrow, but tomorrow may be too late to prevent the attack.

“Prudent security practitioners defend against wellknown attack capabilities,” says Ginter. “They do not defend against the motive of the moment. Motives can change in a heartbeat. Somebody can suddenly get a bee in their bonnet and decide to come after us. Capabilities evolve much more slowly. So industrial sites today are looking at the capabilities 34

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in the threat environment and defending against them before someone develops a motive to use those capabilities against those sites.”

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For modern sabotage-oriented protection, there are solutions available. Waterfall Security Solutions is a cyber security specialist that produces hardware-enforced security products, focused on preventing the cyber sabotage of ICS (industrial control system) networks. The hardware part of the solution is called a unidirectional gateway.

“We have a family of products but our flagship product is the unidirectional gateway,” says Ginter. “The gateways enable safe network integration. They let businesses monitor their control system equipment, but make it physically impossible to send any attack back in to those critical networks.

“We claim 100 per cent protection against network attacks coming from external networks,” he continues. “While there

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“Every year we have more sophisticated attackers, so we need more sophisticated defence mechanisms.

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is no technology that can prevent absolutely all attacks, these silent, online, network-based attacks are the workhorse of cyber sabotage, and are the specific risk that comes with increased network connectivity. Our gateways eliminate that specific threat vector entirely.”

When a unidirectional gateway becomes the only connection between a more trusted network and a less trusted network, he explains, data travels one way only, so nothing gets back in to the ICS network.

Waterfall makes the data available for anyone who needs it, by replicating industrial databases and devices. “Anyone who wants the real-time data can ask the replicas and get the same answer they would have had by asking the live systems,” Ginter explains. “They get the same answer from the replica as the control system equipment would have given them, without ever sending a message to the control system and putting that equipment at risk.

“We represent an evolutional alternative to the firewall technology,” he adds. “Firewalls are network routers with filtering capabilities. They pass messages between networks.

They try to determine if a message is good or not, and if they think it is they send it on. When they fail to recognise something bad in a message, they send that attack straight through. As their security is based on software and logic, firewalls are susceptible to be circumvented and designed to fail.

“When more things are connected it creates more vulnerability,” concludes Ginter. “Every year we have more sophisticated attackers, so we need more sophisticated defence mechanisms. This is what we are offering.”

The benefits of connectivity are not to be denied, and nobody is saying ‘don’t do it’, but we must make sure that criminals do not also benefit from our new, enabling, network connections.

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tudents need to appreciate and apply the “s” word…sustainability.

How can teachers create this awareness? “Seeing is believing,” is one way.

How can they explain to youngsters that modern mining practices have gone beyond the pick and shovel or the image of an old tailings pond? As most consumer items around us are either mined or grown, we need to understand the reality of modern resource extraction.

We need the Earth’s resources. Ensuring it will be around for future generations is part of the three core values of the term ‘sustainability’. Teachers are being exposed to the environmental, economic and social aspects of the term through an innovative professional development (PD) program that examines modern mining practices.

How can teachers who use YouTube and the Internet as resources convince students that mines are environmental leaders, safe places to work, embracing modern technology and creating well-paying jobs using various skill sets?

The Teachers’ Mining Tour has become a leading example in Canada of doing just that. It is all about presenting “informed choices” and “making teachers aware” through first hand experiences.

The tours are a program of the Canadian Ecology Centre (CEC), one of Canada’s leading environmental education centres (www.canadianecology.ca ). Heading into its seventh year, evolving into two tours with a third now in the planning stage. Teachers from across the country

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attend the fully sponsored, weeklong sessions. Teachers go underground, visit refineries and mills, tour mining manufacturers and make the link between the prospector and the geologist. It is all about the mining community helping a third party NGO teach teachers about what they do on a daily basis.

Mining sector support

The mining sector has stepped up, providing not only sponsorship but diverse venues for the multitude of tour stops. The list includes the Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM), the Ontario Mining Association (OMA) along with various mining service providers and other non-profit organizations.

As President, Chris Hodgson leads all OMA activities and represents the association publicly. Prior to the OMA, he served in several, leading positions including Minister of Northern Development and Mines, Minister of Natural Resources and chairman of the management board within the Ontario government. “The OMA was there as a lead sponsor right from the beginning,” says Hodgson. “Ontario remains one of the world’s premier mining sites and the future is bright for modern mining. We believe teachers play a key role in getting this message out to students. Aside from explaining the mining cycle and the diversity of career options, the mining tour cultivates an understanding of our safety record, our environmental commitment and the strong partnerships we enjoy with local communities and First Nation peoples.”

Teachers visit the world renowned Sudbury mining basin including Vale and Glencore mining operations. Within the Timmins mining camp they see Goldcorp operations,

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highlighted by a visit to the award winning Coniaurum mine tailings reclamation project. An aboriginal ceremonial centre is now located on the site and an overview of the working relationship with Goldcorp and the use of traditional knowledge is given by members of Mattagami First Nation.

The use of bio solids as a cover and wild grasses has promoted a self-sustaining environment. An underground experience is key to the tours’ success.

ensure that the teachers talk positively of our great industry in their classrooms so that we can shape students to both consider jobs in the mining industry and to also raise public awareness towards understanding that mining is truly a socially acceptable, sustainable business.”

In the beginning

Two well-known mining executives were instrumental in helping the CEC initiate the inaugural tour. George Flumerfelt

“Ontario remains one of the world’s premier mining sites and the future is bright for modern mining. We believe teachers play a key role in getting this message out to students” Marc Lauzier is presently vice president, operational support, Canada & US, Goldcorp Canada Ltd. As general manager of the Hollinger Mine, he offered his mine as a tour destination located within the ‘City with the heart of gold.’

“This is a great opportunity to demonstrate current mining practices and the entire mining cycle from exploration to mine closure to our educators,” he said. “It is important that we show that our industry has advanced technologically over the years. We offer jobs that are at least up to par and often more challenging than in many other industries. The goal is to

is President and CEO of J.S. Redpath Holdings Inc. and Roy Slack is President of Cementation Canada Inc .

George Flumerfelt describes the tour and the feedback.

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in the Mining Teachers’ Tour are full of enthusiasm and excitement about how much they have learned and how well equipped they are to pass on their new found knowledge to their students. The Teachers’ Mining Tour has been an unqualified success by any and all measures.”

“I am a real fan of the Teachers’ Mining Tour,” says Roy Slack. “It is a grassroots approach to giving people the real picture of what mining is all about, through visiting mines and talking to people who are in the industry. I am proud to

say that our local CIM was the first industry supporter of the initiative. The engagement of the teachers has been excellent, I am sure they wish that more of their students were as attentive as they are during these sessions.

“The program is well structured, well supported and well executed,” he continues. “The professionalism of the tour gives a great impression of our industry on its own, but the focus on safety, detailed talks on specific areas, environmental stewardship and visits to underground mines, all serve to

“The mining tour cultivates an understanding of our safety record, our environmental commitment and the strong partnerships we enjoy with local communities and First Nation peoples”

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“Armed with information from the guest speakers, tours and teaching resources I returned to my classroom with the goal of teaching students about the importance and realities of modern mining” provide participants with a real life experience they can pass on to their students.

“The feedback that we have received from the teachers is a testament to the great experience they have received and the positive excitement the tour generates. The mining industry has been a strong supporter of the program and the CEC has delivered above and beyond expectations. We know that many of the teachers are taking what they have learned back to their students and incorporating mining into their curriculum.”

“I didn’t know that!”

Through the program’s post tour feedback the overwhelming response is: “I didn’t know that.” Director of Education at the CEC, Laura Kielpinski says, “We know we have accomplished our primary goal of providing a climate for making informed choices through real awareness.” Both the elementary and secondary school teachers benefit and most participants originate from urban environments.

Rob Millard is a 14 year, high school science teacher with the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario at Notre

Dame Catholic High School in Carleton Place, near Ottawa. By his own volition he says, “I must have rocks in my head.”

“I participated in my first Teachers’ Mining Tour in 2011.

On that tour I was looking for more accurate information on mining to share with my students for Earth and Space and Environmental science. What I found on the tour changed the way I teach. The importance of mining on my life and my students’ lives became very clear over the five days of the tour,” he said. “The common message of “if it is not grown, it’s mined” rang true for me. Thinking about that message and all of the stuff that I see in my life that is not grown really drove home the importance of mining.

“After seeing Glencore’s Nickel Rim South Mine near Sudbury being constructed and hearing all of the precautions taken to protect the environment and the workers, I realized the view on mining the students get is decades out of date,” said Millard.

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about the importance and realities of modern mining.”

Since the first mining tour he has incorporated mining topics into nearly every unit he teaches. “I now teach my chemistry units using example minerals and ores from Canadian localities. I have even set up a display of exploration drill core and ore in my classroom that often attracts students I do not teach to wander through my

Aimee Partlow, loves rocks. She has created a working ‘in tune’ xylophone out of drill cores for her class.

“I’ve had a love of rocks and minerals since I was very young, been part of a geology club most of my life and taken a variety of courses in geology at the university level,” said Ms. Parlow.

“As a result, I came to the mining tour with an interest and a fair bit of background knowledge in geology. However, my

“What I found on the tour changed the way I teach. The importance of mining on my life and my students’ lives became very clear over the five days of the tour” classroom.

“Much of my ecology and environment units discuss reclamation and remediation techniques and examples from resource extraction operations comparing historical to modern practices. The Teachers’ Mining Tour has allowed me to take my students to places they would never get a chance to experience through the photos we took and first hand stories I can share with them. The Teachers’ Mining Tour is an experience that every teacher should take at least once in their career.”

A Grade 4 teacher at Aberfoyle Public School, Upper Grand District School Board in southwestern Ontario,

understanding of the mining industry and process was more limited. Despite my fourteen years of teaching experience, there is always room to grow, and I appreciated the professional development opportunity the mining tour offered.”

She came away from the week with a very clear sense of the five stages of mining, “because I had seen it for myself.

We saw a variety of aspects from the prospector in the field, the mine in operation to reclamation sites. We talked to leaders in the industries and support industries, and First Nations partners. We were exposed to the wide range of employment opportunities available for our students to suit their various aptitudes and academic ambitions.”

The tour also allows educators to make connections with colleagues who share resources and teaching ideas to include mining in their curricula. “I returned to my classroom with renewed enthusiasm, hands on activities to try and a deeper understanding of the subject matter. The mining tour made my teaching and student learning a richer experience.”

“Seeing is believing,” said Laura Kielpinski. “It’s on our promotional posters. But it is all about the people in the mining sector; we call them gems or precious metals! Teachers meet the prospector in the field, the underground miner and the person making drill bits. It is not lost on the teachers that presidents of global companies take the time to deliver key messages,” she continued. “Whatever the occupation, mining people are all passionate about what they do… teachers can relate. We address the questions and provide the realistic information about an industry that leads rather than follows.”

Teaching teachers about modern mining, not through computer screens, but hands on, is a great way to ensure a better future, and a sustainable one.

Bill Steer is a freelance writer and one of the Canadian Institute of Mining’s ‘Distinguished Lecturers’ for 2015/16; he is also the founder of the Canadian Ecology Centre. He can be reached at wilstonsteer@gmail.com . You can see a three minute video of the tour at www.canadianecology.ca under the Courses and Training…PD tabs.

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Barrick Gold: Projecting a golden future Barrick maintains its prime position in the gold market by focusing on the responsible mining of high quality assets.

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arrick Gold, one of the world’s top gold producers, has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the eighth consecutive year; the company was also included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index for the ninth year in a row.

“We are honoured to be included in this respected index again this year,” said Barrick President Kelvin Dushnisky. “It tells us that we are continuing to live up to the values that, from day one, have driven Barrick’s success, values like trust and transparency, social responsibility and accountability and the pursuit of excellence in all that we do. When we stay true to these values and build strong partnerships with host communities, governments and our employees, we position ourselves for long-term success.”

Each year, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index independently evaluates more than 2,500 companies using rigorous sustainability criteria to identify the top 10 per cent of performers. Companies are evaluated on a range of sustainability metrics, including governance, social performance, environment and economic contributions — taking into account both industry-specific trends as well as sustainability issues facing multiple sectors.

Operating in a responsible manner creates significant value for Barrick’s shareholders, employees, local communities and host countries. In 2014, Barrick contributed $9.7 billion in the form of wages and benefits, royalties and taxes, purchases

of goods and services and community investments in its host countries and communities. This includes $3.6 billion in the developing and emerging countries where Barrick operates.

Barrick has within its portfolio a number of the world’s largest undeveloped gold deposits, including Pascua-Lama, Donlin Gold and Cerro Casale. These projects offer leverage to higher gold prices, with more than 37 million ounces of gold in reserves and more than 48 million ounces of gold in measured and indicated resources. They provide the company with a platform for long-term growth in a higher gold price environment.

Barrick maintains a strong competitive advantage in Nevada and the Andes, with a pipeline of projects that have the potential to grow free cash flow per share. Prefeasibility studies on growth projects in Nevada and the Andes will be complete by the end of 2015, into early 2016. These prefeasibility studies are focused on the Goldrush, Turquoise Ridge and Cortez sites in Nevada, on the Quantum Pacific Exploration and Alturas discoveries in Chile, and on the possible extension of the Lagunas Norte mine in Peru.

Goldrush

The Goldrush project, located six kilometers from Barrick’s Cortez mine, is one of the largest and highest grade gold discoveries of the last decade. Measured and indicated resources stood at 10.6 million ounces and inferred resources were 4.9 million ounces at the end of 2014. The prefeasibility study is expected to be complete by the end of 2015. Infill drilling in 2014 continued to demonstrate high grade continuity and led to resource upgrades, with nearly 70% of the overall resource now in the measured and indicated •

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category. Permitting is progressing for twin exploration declines that will allow the company to better explore the northern limits of the known deposit.

“The Turquoise Ridge mine contains 4.5 million ounces in reserves at an average grade of 16.9 grams per ton — the highest reserve grade in Barrick’s operating portfolio and among the highest in the entire gold industry” Turquoise Ridge

The Turquoise Ridge mine, which is 75% owned by Barrick, contains 4.5 million ounces in reserves at an average grade of 16.9 grams per ton — the highest reserve grade in Barrick’s operating portfolio and among the highest in the entire gold industry. Turquoise Ridge has considerable untapped potential and could become a core operation.

Barrick is advancing a project to develop an additional shaft, which could bring forward more than one million ounces of production, roughly doubling output to an average of 500,000

ounces per year at all-in sustaining costs of about $625$675 per ounce. The joint venture partners have approved a feasibility study and detailed engineering for the project.

Pending receipt of permits and joint venture approval, initial production could commence in 2019.

Preliminary estimates indicate capital expenditures of approximately $300-$325 million for additional underground development and shaft construction, and an attractive payback period of about two and a half years at a gold price assumption of $1,300 per ounce. Drilling has continued this year at the northern extension of the deposit where the ore body is still open to the north and east with higher grades than the average reserve grade.

Cortez

A prefeasibility study for expanded underground mining at Cortez below currently permitted levels is due for completion at any time. Mineralization in this zone is primarily oxide and higher grade compared to the current underground mine, which is refractory in nature. The limits of the Lower Zone have not yet been defined, and drilling has indicated the potential for new targets at depth.

Chile: Quantum Pacific Exploration

Barrick’s focus is gold and it is not actively seeking to expand its existing copper position. Yet the company does seek to maximize the value of those assets it already owns, including large land positions in Chile in some of the world’s most prolific districts for copper. In pursuit of this, Barrick has formed a strategic partnership with Quantum Pacific •

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The!modular!construction!provides!treatment!capability!up!to!8MLD!in!a!single! train.!The!advanced!features!of!the!process!include!operating!with!low!cost! chemicals,!troubleFfree!operation!in!the!presence!of!scaling!and!fouling! components!such!as!calcium!and!sulphate!and!low!power!use.!!CIF®!delivers!the! outcomes!that!were!not!possible!using!conventional!approaches.!

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Process!Water!management!and!reuse!opens!up!many!improvement!opportunities!in!current!mining!operations.!Water!can!be! treated!using!the!CIF®!process!to!remove!the!buildFup!in!soluble!salts!and!metals!in!process!steams!which!may!impair!the! efficiency!of!the!process.!CounterFcurrent!decantation!and!solvent!extraction!processes!can!benefit!by!using!CIF®.!

Tailings!Water!can!be!difficult!to!reuse!or!dispose!of!due!to!the!contained!salts!and!metals.!CIF®!can!be!used!to!remove!or!reduce! the!levels!of!contaminants!such!as!organics,!sulphate,!heavy!metals!and!nitrogen.!Once!treated,!the!water!becomes!a!valuable! commodity!for!reuse.!

Acid!Mine!Drainage!is!a!problem!that!must!be!solved!for!many!mining!operations.!CIF®!provides!a!cost!effective!method!of! dealing!with!the!complex!mix!of!metals!and!salts.!The!extraction!of!sulphuric!acid!and!removal!of!metals!results!in!water!that!can! be!reused;!the!byFproduct!metals!produced!can!offFset!the!cost!of!treatment.!

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NO!PREIFILTRATION! CIF®!removes!the!need!for!complex!and!expensive!preFfiltration.!Water!is!fed! directly!into!the!CIF®!absorption!sorption!module!where!the!positive!ions! such!as!sodium,!calcium!and!magnesium!are!exchanged!with!a!counter!ion! such!as!hydrogen.!Negative!ions,!such!as!sulphate!and!chloride!are! exchanged!for!hydroxyl!ion.!There!is!no!barrier!used!in!the!technology!so! exchange!flux!is!extremely!high!and!the!potential!for!scaling!and!fouling!are! eliminated.!Any!particles!which!enter!with!the!feed!water!do!not!interfere! with!the!primary!desalination!operation!of!the!technology.!

SELFICLEANING! The!continuous!movement!of!resins!within!our!CIF®!process!means!that!the! process!is!not!subject!to!scaling!and!fouling!failure!modes!associated!with! membrane!technology.!The!working!heart!of!the!CIF®!process,!the!ion! exchange!resins,!are!continually!cleaned!and!chemically!regenerated!before! being!reused!to!ensure!that!the!primary!treatment!process!remains! operating!at!optimum!conditions!

Moving!Ionic!(CIF®)!or!NonFionic!(MPA®)!resin!bed!!

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Low!capital!investment!!

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• Barrick Gold

Exploration (QPX) to explore for copper deposits in a number of highly prospective areas of northern Chile.

QPX is a company that focuses on exploring for one mineral commodity – copper - in one country - Chile. It is a part of the Quantum Pacific Group, an international business that includes some of the most innovative companies in natural resources, energy and commodities. Consistent with that theme, QPX is pioneering a new, multidisciplinary approach to exploration.

“Barrick has formed a strategic partnership with Quantum Pacific Exploration to explore for copper deposits in a number of highly prospective areas of northern Chile” The company has built a world-class team of experts who have a proven track record of copper discoveries and expertise in machine learning and big data analysis, among other disciplines. Their internal R&D lab uses proprietary technology to develop new strategies and tools designed to increase the probability of discovery, faster than conventional approaches and at lower costs. They combine world-class technical expertise with cutting-edge computer science, and

they bring in learning from other industries to develop nontraditional approaches.

QPX shares Barrick’s spirit of collaboration and regularly seeks out joint ventures with companies that are complementary in assets and expertise. Under the terms of the agreement, QPX will manage the exploration program.

Any gold deposits located on Barrick land will remain 100% Barrick owned. If a copper project is identified on either Barrick or QPX land, it will be 50% owned by each company.

Certain properties where Barrick is already actively exploring, including zones around Zaldívar, Pascua-Lama, Cerro Casale and El Indio, are excluded from the agreement.

The agreement runs for five years, with an option to extend for another three years and the partners will each contribute up to $30 million per year for exploration, with each bearing 50 per cent of the total costs. It is an exciting and mutually beneficial partnership for Barrick and QPX.

Alturas

Alturas is located in the Andean region of Chile, approximately 30 kilometres south of the former El Indio mine. It’s part of a large mineralized system, which extends well beyond the limits of Barrick’s current drilling area.

To date, 35 core holes have been completed in an area one kilometre square. Mineralization appears to be oxide in nature and geologically similar to Veladero, with the potential to be significantly higher grade. Intercepts have been thick (typically ranging from 50-150 meters) and continuous.

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• Barrick Gold

Mining, a vital part of industry that truly functions on reliable power. This sector of industry depends on power to harness natural resources such as aggregates, precious metals, iron ore, oil, gas, coal and gold mining. All the machinery involved in this process uses power, both surface and underground mining operations use power to extract minerals and load trucks.

There are different uses for transformers in the mining industry, so both liquid-filled and dry type are used. Depending on the application, there are some performance advantages that have been accepted.

Virginia Transformer Corp has the engineering expertise and refined manufacturing processes to build some of the most dependable, long lasting units available. VTC offers transformers for drag lines, blast hole drilling and shovels (mil 167).

Virginia Transformer provided four 10 MVA transformers for Barrick Gold and is a Top Tier supplier for custom transformers.

Corporate Office 220 Glade View Drive Roanoke, VA 24012 540.345.9892

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All of VTC’s transformers are custom built to client specifications. VTC builds both liquid filled and dry type transformers as well from 345 KVA – 500 MVA.

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El Indio and Tambo. Barrick controls almost all of the prospective ground on the 140-kilometer long El Indio belt.

The new discovery at Alturas is the result of a methodical re-evaluation of the El Indio belt led by Barrick’s exploration team, including members of the teams behind the Goldrush and Lagunas Norte discoveries. Drilling at Alturas finished at the end of the summer season in May. With mineralization open in multiple directions, the focus going forward will be on defining the full extent of the deposit, as well as exploring for additional targets nearby.

Barrick’s other undeveloped gold deposits, including Pascua-Lama, Donlin Gold and Cerro Casale offer leverage to higher gold prices, with more than 37 million ounces of gold in reserves and more than 48 million ounces of gold in measured and indicated resources. They provide the company with a platform for long-term growth in a higher gold price environment.

Lagunas Norte mine life extension

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$543 per ounce. In its early years, production peaked at more than one million ounces per year. To date, Lagunas Norte has operated as an oxide heap leach mine and Barrick is currently evaluating a plan to significantly extend the life of Lagunas Norte by mining the refractory ore below the oxide ore body in the current pit. Barrick is initiating a prefeasibility study to evaluate this opportunity. As part of the study, it intends to evaluate the installation of a new grinding-flotation-autoclave processing circuit to treat the refractory ore, including the potential relocation of one autoclave from the Goldstrike mine to Lagunas Norte.

All this potential can only strengthen Barrick’s primary position in the gold market, adding to other high quality assets across the world, including Pueblo Viejo in the Dominican Republic, Kalgoorlie in Australia, Jabal Sayid in Saudi Arabia and Kabanga in Tanzania. As a business it is managing its balance sheet in a difficult market by reviewing and selling off non-core assets so that it can focus on future potential.

Since it began operations in 2005, Lagunas Norte has outperformed production expectations. In 2014, the mine produced 582,000 ounces of gold at all-in sustaining costs of

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Reduce fatigue & distraction events.

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Today, in over 3,000 mine-site vehicles around the world, costly downtime is minimised while safe operations are maximised.

DSS supports your fatigue management plans, improving productivity and keeping your vehicle operators safe.

Supported globally through the CaterpillarÂŽ Dealer Network, the Seeing Machines DSS will protect your people and save lives.

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Terex® Finlay launch NEW I-140 impact crusher The NEW Terex® Finlay I-140 direct drive ø1270mm x 1240mm (Ø50” x 48”) horizontal impact crusher with variable speed gives operators unprecedented levels of production in both recycling, mining and quarrying applications. The robust and proven Terex® CR032 chamber gives excellent reduction ratios and high consistency of product shape.

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significant engineering approach being introduced in this model is the material flow through the plant. The flow of material has been significantly improved by increasing the width of components as the material moves through the machine.

The machine features an advanced electronic control system that monitors and controls the speed of the rotor and regulates the heavy duty vibrating feeder (VGF) with

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integrated pre-screen to maintain a consistent feed of material into the impact chamber for optimal crushing conditions.

Material from the integrated pre-screen can be diverted to a stock pile via the optional by-pass conveyor, or it may join the crushed product on the main belt. The standard hopper capacity of 6m³ (7.5yd³) places the machine at the forefront in this competitive market sector.

“The introduction of the Terex® Finlay I-140 represents a significant step change in our family of impact crushers. Our field test results of extensive testing have recorded significant productivity increases depending on the application, over the model that it replaces. The enhanced material flow process of the plant represents a significant step change to our engineering ethos and in due course will be extended to encompass our range of impact crushers” said Alan Witherow, Product Manager.

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The ease of material flow through the machine has greatly improved with each component of the machine increasing in width as the material moves through the machine.

Fully hydraulic apron setting assist provides convenient and efficient adjustment of the aprons.

Heavy duty vibrating feeder (VGF) with integrated prescreen removes dirt fines and sizes bypass material for reprocessing.

Optional under crusher vibratory plate feeder with wear resistant liners aids material discharge flow.

If you require anymore information please contact: Brian Pauley Marketing Manager T:+44 (0) 2882 418 768 M: +44(0) 7766 417 602 F:+44 (0) 2882 244 294 E:brian.pauley@terex.com Terex Finlay Drumquin Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland, BT78 5PN

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ION-IX

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Advanced ION EXCHANGE Technology Why use ION - IX ?

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ION-IXTM is the ideal new system for: ●

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Highest recovery of precious metals Steady product & efluent stream Reduced chemical and water usage Lowest O&M costs

Major benefits of the ION-IXTM System are: ●

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Reduced chemical & water usage Lower waste volumes, higher concentration of metals recovered Compact footprint Reduced resin inventory Flow rates of up to 500 m3/h per valve possible

Elution profile with metals separated by ION-IXTM

Dikberd 14 unit 10A ● B-2200 Herentals ● Belgium Tel & Fax: +32 (0) 14 70 50 41 sales@puritech.be ● www.puritech.be

ION-IX Hydrometallurgy TM

Advanced ION EXCHANGE Technology Nickel / Cobalt

Zinc Recovery

Uranium

Copper Recovery

Nickel Laterite

Rare Earth

What Puritech does...

Plant design The engineering of continuous countercurrent ion exchangers CCIX includes: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

PFD & mass balance Process & Instrument Diagram Technical data sheets 3D design Piping & vessel drawings Electrical & instrumentation Commissioning Start-up

Pilot trials & Process Development Puritech has developed a process design simulation package. This software package allows us to calculate process performance before pilot trials.

We have several pilot systems available for: ● ● ● ● ●

Optimising of existing process applications Developing new hydrometallurgy applications Obtaining data for a full size production plant Testing of different types of resin Providing proof of high performance

Copper Recovery Advantages of ION-IXTM System over solvent extraction for copper recovery are: ● ● ● ● ●

Lower capital and operating cost No fire hazards No crud formation or handling Much smaller footprint No strong electrolyte post-treatment

After electrolyse, copper can be extracted from the solution.

ION-IX

What Puritech builds...

Nickel Laterite Nickel is a hard, silver white metal. It is mainly used in the manufacturing of stainless steel, steel alloys and superalloys.

Nickel laterite can be found in large amounts in the tropics and comprises 73% of the world nickel resources.

Nickel - Cobalt Separation A 200 m3/h Ni/Co Separation plant has been designed and installed in Africa by Puritech.

By using a split elution, the Nickel is separated from the Cobalt stream. A double or triple adsorption zone allows removing the desired metal almost completely.

Zinc Recovery The Zinc chloride can be removed from pickling acid. ZnCl2 will form a stable complex which is removed by anion resin.

The resin is afterwards eluted with water.

Uranium & Rare Earth Applications Hydrometallurgy is used more and more as the first choice to recover precious metals.

Some of the applications are: Uranium Lithium Rhenium Germanium Gold & silver ● ● ● ● ●

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What can United Mining Rentals offer your company?

At a time when fiscal responsibility is becoming exponentially more important, in an industry where the highest safety standards and productivity must be maintained, providing your operation with the best fleet at a minimal cost is fundamental to any successful and profitable business. United Mining Rentals (UMR) has over 30 years of experience in the Mining & Tunnelling Industry and we are proud to offer rental and ownership opportunities for the full range of new Sandvik and Normet equipment. We trust you will find the product that suits your Mining or Tunnelling operation, backed by the numerous advantages associated with theUMR rental, or rent with an option to purchase models that will reduce cost of ownership and help maintain productivity.

Our full range of new Sandvik and Normet products are backed with full Factory Warranty, Technical Support, OEM Parts and a global network of local and regional OEM service centres. With such a robust range of support services, renting with UMR reduces maintenance costs and guarantees availability hence improving productivity for our customers whilst also eliminating rebuild down time.

Striving to provide quality at a reasonable price, UMR offers an innovative model of flexible rental or rental/purchase options tailored to suit every kind of end user in the Tunnelling and Mining industries, allowing customers to avoid tying up capital and invest it in the future purchase of rented equipment. Our rental/purchase option offers an attractive allowance for paid rentals against pre-agreed purchase price easing upfront capital spending and is a way of investing in the ownership of the Equipment at a pre-determined date.

For all mining equipment rentals visit www.unitedminingrentals.com

EUROPE United Mining Rentals Ltd. Coolfore Road, Ardbraccan, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 KXY3, Ireland.

NORTH AMERICA United Mining Rentals Ltd. Suite 1200, 220 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2W4, Canada.

Tel: +353 87 1491945 Tel: +1 647 267 8193 Email: info@unitedminingrentals.com www.unitedminingrentals.com Our philosophy at UMR is simple – Downtime costs money. This philosophy inspired our aim to provide solutions to one of the major contributors of downtime in the mining and tunnelling industries: low availability of equipment. To ensure our customers don’t experience any downtime, we offer rentals and rent to purchase plans for new Sandvik and Normet equipment on a global basis, making use of the vast network of Worldwide Service Centres provided by two of the world leaders in Mining and Tunnelling Equipment. We also offer the option of bridging units to keep our customer’s operations running smoothly until their new rental unit arrives.

We recognise that each customer has different requirements so we offer very flexible terms. Our first option is rent to purchase which allows for purchase of the equipment following a minimum one year rental period with a percentage of the rental payments deductible from the pre-agreed purchase price. Another option we offer is variable term rental from a minimum of 1 year upwards allowing the customer long term rental, consisting of 2-3 years allowing the customer to return the equipment with no commitment to purchase. We also offer a “Rolling Replacement” option, which allows the customer to return equipment to UMR following a 3 year rental and replace with new equipment for another 3 year term or pre-agreed period.

RENTALS AVAILABLE: Trucks and Loaders Underground Drilling & Bolting Roadheaders Exploration & Surface Drilling Lifting & Installations Scaling & Charging Underground Logistics Spraying

Our business model is designed with Mining Companies & Tunnelling Contractors in mind, who often have short or long term contracts, as well as Start-up mining operations which may wish to defer spending capital on expensive equipment for use in another area until positive cash flow is realized. Fixed rental payments simplify budget planning, and can be 100% Tax deductible against business income.

By using a reliable rental provider such as UMR for a long term rental the costs of acquiring, running and maintaining the right equipment for the job can be greatly reduced, as renting equipment can generate significant savings by avoiding depreciation, the total cost of the purchase price, and unnecessary unit and component rebuild costs.

UMR Equipment comes with a managed service tailored to each customer’s requirements covering bridging units, full technical support and immediate reaction to warranty issues ensuring availability at all times.

Making that vital decision whether to buy or rent is not just a matter of budget, but of business strategy. So weigh up the numbers, and make the right decision for your business.

For all mining equipment rentals visit www.unitedminingrentals.com

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