MayJune 2020 MaiJuin 2020 29 column Strategic Mine Planning with New Digital T echnologies Risk Management and Mineral V alue Chains At the time of a continuing rebound of metal markets learn how the application of new digital technologies can add substantial value to strategic mine planning and asset valuation The new technologies and related tools integrate technical risk management while capitalizing on the synergies amongst the elements of mineral value chains through their simultaneous optimization from mines to products to markets INSTRUCT ORS Roussos Dimitrakopoulos McGill University Canada and Ryan Goodfellow Newmont Goldcorp USA DA TE September 2020 LOCA TION Montreal Quebec Canada Geostatistical Mineral Resource Estimation and Meeting the New Regulatory Environment Step by Step from Sampling to Grade Control This course is designed according to the latest regulations on public reporting of Mineral Resources It aims at showing how stateoftheart statistical and geostatistical techniques help answer the requirements of those regulations in an objective and reproducible manner A particular emphasis is put on understanding sampling and estimation errors and how to assign levels of estimation confidence through the application of resource classification fundamentals In addition to a solid introduction to mining geostatistics this course provides a comprehensive overview of industry best practices in the broader field of Mineral Resource estimation INSTRUCT ORS Georges V erly W ood Canada and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos McGill University Canada DA TE September 2125 2020 LOCA TION Montreal Quebec Canada w alking or st epping t o a v oid trips or f alls T he SI must k eep his or her ey es on the w alk path at all times not on the display of the devic e tr ansmit ting inf ormation Onc e the RD and SI work thr ough the above det ails and do a trial run they should be r eady f or the inspection In some inst anc es periods with no W iFi or c ellular connection or delay e d audio or video tr ansf er may pr esent a challeng e but it is g ener ally not a signif icant barrier t o completing an eff ective inspection Finally a full schedule should be developed t o mat ch both ph ysical inspection and int erview time T his needs t o be coor di nat ed t o ha ve live conf er enc e video t o discus s observ ations and addr es s questions with oper ational maint enanc e pr oject and or manag ement personnel bef or e the dat e of the visit t o est ablish onsit e a v ailability or at minimum a v ailability f o r communication Remote site visit F or a compr ehensive r emot e inspection it is r e commended that the SI does two sit e inspections on t op of the trial run T his will allow f or communications is sues and err ors and f o r chang es in r eal time diff er enc es in observ anc e T w o separ at e inspections will pr ovide the RD the opportunity t o g o thr ough the f i rst tr ansmis sion and cr eat e a compr ehensive list of it ems t o captur e that wer e mis sed during the f i rst inspection A sec ond inspection will give the SI the opportunity t o pr epar e t o cap tur e it ems that wer e not captur ed during the f i rst inspection When pos sible if mat ching t our r out es or r emot e maps between multiple disciplines it is pos sible that the second inspection can be a t eam or gr ouped inspection with one SI serving multiple RDs T his is only pos sible onc e each RD has complet ed the f i rst inspection and has conf err ed with other RDs on the t eam t o see if s yner gies exist A f inal r eport should be pr ovided by the SI of what w a s inspect ed viewed or observed It should include schedules dat es and times as nec es sary and it should be pr ovided t o the RD as pr oof and document ation of the r emot e sit e visit T his document ation is critical t o est ablishing a r e cor d of what w a s r equest ed t o be viewed and what w as actually viewed T echnologies T her e ar e a number of t echnologies that can serve f o r r emot e sit e inspection including smartphones or t ablet s hel met camer as ey e glas s camer as micr ophones and dr ones K eep in mind that sinc e ther e ar e pr actical limit ations of contr ol tim ing capacity ac cur acy depending on the complexity of the t echnology mor e than one t echnology should be used t o com plet e the r emot e sit e visit T he r edundancy can bridg e an y g aps between the t echnologies used T his column w as ex c erpt ed and adapt ed fr om Mine and Mining Pr oject Sit e V isit Guidelines A Pr actical Appr oach Read the full guidelines t o perf orming r emot e sit e visit s at ht tps www rpmglobal com wp c ont ent uploads20 20 0 4 Mine and Min ing Pr ojectSit e V isit Guidelines A Pr actical A ppr oach pdf A v akash Pat el P Eng is Pr esident A d visory and Consulting Americas at RPMGlobal He has work ed f or junior and major mining companies as well as f o r t o p tier EP CMs He has been in volved in v arious st ag es of pr oject development and his experienc e spans multiple commodities and locations globally CIM