18 www gbr eports c om Glob al Business R eport s PRERELEASE ONT ARIO MINING 2018 Glob al Business R eport s ONT ARIO MINING 2018 PRERELEASE T GR ar e de veloping their own innov a tive solutions t o drive down c os t s and incr e ase eficienc y a t their EL G oper a tion These include a 13km long c onve yor belt which g ener a t es it s own ener g y the Calix Filtr a tion Plant the bigg es t filtr a tion plant in the world which uses dr y s t ack c alix and Muck ahi mining t echnolog y which F r ed S t anf or d has been de veloping f or ye ars and T or ex Gold will be t es ting in Q1 2019 The Muck ahi monor ail c onve yor sys t em utiliz es a slusher and tr ansport s the or e body c ontinuously r equiring a drif half the siz e of the lar g e trucks curr ently in use F r ed belie ves the Muck ahi t echnolog y is a g ame changing innov a tion tha t c an dr ama tic ally impr ove pr oduc tivity The aim is t o r educ e the time nec essar y f or the mining and tr ansport a tion of the or e body t o one thir d of the curr ent time he s t a t ed F or many ye ars E cuador r emained r ela tively under explor ed p articularly in c omp arison t o it s Ande an neighbour P eru Howe ver the E cuadorian g overnment has s t art ed t o support it s bur g eoning mining sec t or with gr adual impr ovement s t o the fisc al polic y t o a t tr ac t dir ec t inves tment culmina ting in the c omple t e r emov al of the windf all t ax in A ugus t 2018 The g overnment has also decr e ased r oy alties on mining pr ojec t s and gr ant ed aut oma tic appr ov al of up t o 40 explor a tion drill p ads f or any ne w miner al c onc essions issued Glenn Mullan pr esident of PD A C no t ed how E cuador has g arner ed the a t t ention of the glob al mining c ommunity A t PD A C 2018 a day w as dedic a t ed t o pr esent a tions on E cuadorian g eologic al c ase s tudies showc asing the po t ential of the r e gion t o signific ant f or eign inves t ors Chris tian Kar gl Simar d pr esident dir ec t or and CEO of Adventus Zinc Corpor a tion A Z C w as given a glob al manda t e t o find the nex t worldclass b ase me t al deposit with a p articular f ocus on zinc Back ed by two major r oy alty c omp anies and two priv a t e equity gr oups A Z C spent one ye ar looking ex t ensively a t over wwwnigeriaminingweekcom 15 17 October 2018 ABUJA NIGERIA The one event shaping the Nigerian mining landscape EX CLUSIVE B2B INDOOR OUTDOOR EXHIBITION TWO D A Y HIGH LEVEL STRA TEGIC CONFERENCE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT PRE CONFERENCE SESSIONS FREE T O A TTEND WORKSHOPS T ARGETED T O SMALL SCALE MINERS DRAGONS DEN MENT ORSHIP PROGRAMME ACCESS FINANCING AND AD VISE T O KICKST ART Y OUR VENTURE IN WEST AFRICA NEW MA T CHMAKING PLA TFORM MEET THE WHO S WHO OF THE MINING INDUSTRY GENERA TE NEW L OCAL P ARTNERSHIPS BOOK YOUR SPONSORSHIP OR EXHIBITION OPTION WITH kudakwashe tsinganospintelligent com T 27 21 700 3588 Organised by In partnership with In partnership with Hosted by MINING QU ARR YING FORUM