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Before You Ever Put the First Shovel in the Ground--This Book Could Be the Difference Between a Successful Mining Operation and a Money Pit.

Opening a successful new mine is a vastly complex undertaking entailing several years and millions to billions of dollars.

In today's world, when environmental and labor policies, regulatory compliance, and impact on the community must be factored in, you cannot afford to make a mistake. Written by two hands-on, in-the-trenches mining project managers with decades of experience who bring some of the world's most successful, profitable mines into operation on time, within budget, and ethically, Project Management for Mining gives you step-by-step instructions in every process you are likely to encounter.

Beginning with a discussion of mining ethics and governance, this clearly written manual walks you through all the project management steps--defining the scope, performing prefeasibility and feasibility studies, gaining societal acceptance, minimizing the impact and risks, creating workable schedules and budgets, setting in place the project execution plan, assembling the human resources, hiring the contractors, and establishing project controls--and then on into the delivery of the engineering and design, construction, progress reviews, pre-launch commissioning, and ramping up for operation.

Each chapter includes several useful aids such as figures, checklists, and flowcharts to guide you through every step, from conception through successful opening.

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"The key to conducting detailed feasibility studies and due diligence examinations is to ask a million questions because each project has unique issues, challenges, and attributes. Many have attempted to quantify this complex exercise, but without success. As always, Richard Bullock does not disappoint. This important work, Mineral Property Evaluation: Handbook for Feasibility Studies and Due Diligence, is destined to become the educational standard on this subject. If you are new to this field, you should memorize each page. It provides concise details, excellent figures and tables, and interesting historical anecdotes to emphasize important concepts. If you are a regular practitioner, this handbook should reside on your favorite bookshelf because it will become a well-worn reference as its short overviews refresh your knowledge. If you are an old-timer, you will enjoy how Richard has extracted the essence of this subject matter."

Douglas B. Silver
Portfolio Manager, Orion Mine Finance
SME Distinguished Member and 2017 Keynote Speaker

"In 2011, Dr. Bullock delivered a Jackling Lecture that reset the way we think about feasibility studies. One thing was clear from his lecture: the industry desperately needed standards and guidelines with respect to feasibility and due diligence studies. In this handbook, Dr. Bullock and his coauthors have not only solved that dilemma but once again set the standard for mining textbooks.

As is pointed out in the handbook, there are many national standards pertaining to resources and reserves, but most of these codes and guides have only a few sentences or paragraphs of guidance when it comes to the rest of what goes into the engineering of feasibility studies. This important text needs to be used as a guideline to accompany VALMIN, JORC, NI 43-101, and Industry Guide 7.

In addition to being important, it is easy to read and even includes some humor. Whether you are a junior in engineering or a seasoned professional, you will enjoy this well-written guide, brought to you by world-class experts in their respective topics. This belongs in the library of all geologists, engineers, and financiers doing any type of feasibility or evaluation work in the mining industry."

Timothy D. Arnold
Vice President Operations, Pershing Gold Corp.
SME President 2016

"In this handbook consisting of 20 chapters, Dr. Bullock gives a comprehensive integration of all aspects of mineral property feasibility analysis through due diligence. The many complicated economic, social, environmental, and financial considerations are covered in great depth, including the risk of an investment as a mine project evolves temporally through different stages. With his deep, prolonged experience in performing feasibility analyses around the world, he threads experiences on projects throughout the handbook, which is an invaluable contribution to understanding the intricacies of doing thorough mine project evaluations. In his career, he was not only adept at doing the analyses, but also, as the Quenon Chair at the University of Missouri-Rolla, now Missouri University of Science and Technology, he imparted his expertise to many students who now work in the mining industry. This handbook will provide expert guidance and information for professionals who will pursue feasibility analyses in the future."

R. Larry Grayson, Ph.D.
Retired Deike Chair and Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Professor Emeritus, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Retired Professor, West Virginia University

For too long, maintenance has been regarded as a "necessary evil" rather than a vital contributor to effective mining operations. Today's enlightened mining managers are realizing that a new approach is urgently needed.

Quality maintenance is far too important to be left solely in the hands of maintenance. An integrated, well-understood, companywide strategy is essential to succeed in today's fiercely competitive, high-stakes marketplace. Equipment Management: Key to Equipment Reliability and Productivity in Mining, Second Edition, explains how to make that strategy come alive. Essential reading for mining professionals, this book shows how to create an environment and a culture that allow maintenance to succeed. Author Paul D. Tomlingson draws on more than 35 years of direct, worldwide maintenance management consulting experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of maintenance programs for heavy industry.

He explains how the equipment management strategy successfully focuses the efforts of all mining departments on the essential task of delivering consistently reliable production equipment to better guarantee a profitable operation. Tomlingson offers valuable insights for developing effective preventive measures, scheduling more planned work, and improving productivity, resulting in higher quality work and less cost while reducing unnecessary downtime and avoiding the consequences of failure.

Equipment Management Workbook is a companion to the highly acclaimed text, Equipment Management: Key to Equipment Reliability and Productivity in Mining, Second Edition. The Equipment Management text, regarded as essential reading for mining professionals, outlines a proven and practical strategy for ensuring the profitability of mining operations through quality maintenance management.

This workbook provides an easy, effective way for readers to review and confirm those valuable lessons presented in the text. Its step-by-step approach focuses on the most critical aspects of a successful maintenance management program.

Each chapter challenges the reader to recall the real-world experiences and recommendations from the text. Engaging multiple-choice, true/false, and yes/no exercises reinforce every key concept. You'll benefit from Tomlingson's more than 35 years of direct, worldwide maintenance consulting experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of maintenance programs for heavy industry.

The textbook and workbook comprise a "how-to" guide that will enable mining organizations to implement a comprehensive equipment management strategy that ensures equipment reliability, as well as work force productivity.

The SME Mining Reference Handbook was the first concise reference published in the mining field and it quickly became the industry standard. It sits on almost every mining engineer’s desk or bookshelf with worn pages, tabs to find most used equations, and personal notes. It has been the unequaled single reference and the first source of information for countless engineers.

This second edition of the SME Mining Reference Handbook builds on that success. With an enhanced presentation, new and updated information is represented in a concise, well-organized guide of important data for everyday use by engineers and other professionals engaged in mining, exploration, mineral processing, and environmental compliance and reclamation.

With its exhaustive trove of charts, graphs, tables, equations, and guidelines, the handbook is the essential technical reference for mobile mining professionals.

CONTENTS:

• Conversion Factors, Constants, and Symbols
• Material Properties
• Mathematics, Statistics, and Probability
• Physical Science and Engineering
• Geology and Geophysics
• Sampling and Analysis
• Mineral Products
• Economics and Costing
• Project Evaluation
• Mining Methods
• Blasting and Explosives
• Excavation, Loading, and Material Transport
• Haul Roads
• Ground Control and Support
• Ventilation
• Power: Electrical and Compressed Air
• Pumping
• Placer Mining
• In Situ Leaching
• Mineral Processing
• Tailings and Water Management
• Maintenance
• Health and Safety
• Environment and Reclamation
• Bonding and Liabilities
• Key Resources for the Mining Industry
• Case Studies

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Nearly every recent article on tailings starts by mentioning a large tailings dam failure. The consequences of these failures have been so devastating they have pushed conversations about the risks inherent in these structures beyond the mining community into the general population. We are left to question how we address the risks associated with tailings disposal, and in so doing, transform the image of the mining industry and perhaps the industry itself.  

With this as a backdrop, the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) challenged tailings and mining professionals to re-imagine the future of tailings. The Mine Tailings: Perspectives for a Changing World symposium, held at the SME 2020 annual conference, started that conversation. Over three days, tailings professionals from around the world gathered to discuss tailings storage practices and the changes both the industry and the world want and need. The discussions squarely focused on how we, as an industry, can collectively make changes that will eliminate catastrophic tailings dam failures and lead to better outcomes for the industry and society.

Through sharing and conversation, the symposium participants recognized risks associated with our approach to tailings management and existing structures and discussed the gaps that need to be addressed, including how the behavior of tailings and mining professionals must change. The human element of risk must be recognized so it can be talked about openly, given the attention it deserves, and adequately addressed. We need to own this problem and the impact of our actions. We have the power to change this; when we own our actions, we can act differently for a different outcome.

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Discover the complete story of the building of the Seattle State Route 99 tunnel, as told by project managers, planners, civic leaders, key contractors, labor unions, and crew members.

This 190-page full color hardcover publication covers a five-year period (2014-2019) of this engineering megaproject that broke records and defied odds in the underground tunneling industry. Photographed in all its phases, the book illustrates six work zones, events, and milestones. It celebrates “Bertha”, the largest tunnel boring machine in the world at the time, and the Alaskan Way Viaduct which the tunnel replaced.

From 100 feet in the air to 100 feet below ground, the book gives readers the grand tour of all facets involved in building the double deck, two-lane highway beneath the city, changing Seattle’s waterfront landscape forever.

The nearly two-mile underground tunnel drive followed a winding path along Seattle’s waterfront and Elliott Bay, passing under the Alaskan Way Viaduct and part of the city’s downtown business district, exiting here at the North Portal located adjacent to the Seattle Center and Space Needle.

The tunnel walls are made of pre-cast curved concrete segments, in a succession of rings. Each ring consists of nine large segments and one ‘key’ piece, bolted together. Once the tunnel structure was complete, the north and south interior road decks were constructed.

A worker emerges from the mouth of the tunnel in the launch zone located at the south end of the tunnel project, where the tunnel boring machine began her route under Seattle in 2013. Before the interior roadways were built, the tunnel was visible in its full diameter, at 57.5 feet, the largest tunnel in the world at the time. The launch zone later extended into the ‘cut and cover’ portion of the project which connected the tunnel to future exterior roads leading to the entrance and exit of the highway.

Hundreds of new cutter teeth glistened in the sun as the newly repaired 2,000-ton center drive unit of the tunnel boring machine was hoisted back into the Rescue Shaft parallel to the Alaskan Way Viaduct near Pier 47 in Seattle. Once underground, it was re-connected to the body of the machine and tested extensively in order to resume her journey northbound.

Crew members and managers raise their hats after the successful arrival and exit of ‘Bertha’ at the North Portal shaft site on April 14, 2017. Bertha, named after Seattle’s first female mayor, Bertha Landes, was the largest TBM ever built at the time measuring 57.5 feet in diameter—five stories high. The historic machine was not salvageable and was dismantled over the following four months. This area then became the site of the north ‘cut and cover’, and the highway’s entrance and exit near the Seattle Center and Space Needle.