8 CIM Magazine V ol 15 No 3 Ne xt st eps Editor inc hief Ryan Bergen rbergencimorg Executive editor Angela Hamlyn ahamlyncimorg Managing editor Michele Beacom mbeacomcimorg Section editors Carolyn Gruske cgruskecimorg Matthew Parizot mparizotcimorg Editorial inter n T ijana Mitrovic tmitroviccimorg Contributors T om DiNardo Ian Ewing L ynn Greiner Cecilia Keating Herb Mathisen A vakash Patel Editorial advisor y boar d Mohammad Babaei Khorzhoughi Vic Pakalnis Steve Rusk Nathan Stubina T r anslations Karen Rolland Layout and design Clo Communications Inc www clocommunicationscom Published 8 times a year by Canadian Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Petroleum 1250 3500 de Maisonneuve Blvd W est W estmount QC H3Z 3C1 T el 5149392710 Fax 5149392714 www cimorg magazinecimorg Advertising sales Dovetail Communications Inc T el 9058866640 Fax 9058866615 www dvtailcom Senior Account Executives Janet Jeffer y jjeffer ydvtailcom 9057073529 Christopher Forbes cforbesdvtailcom 9057073516 Edyta Edith Dhillon edhillondvtailcom 9057073525 Subscriptions Online version included in CIM Membership 197yr Print version for institutions or agencies Canada 275yr AB BC MB NT NU SK YT add 5 GST ON add 13 HST QC add 5 GST 9975 PST NB NL NS PE add 15 HST Print version for institutions or agencies USAInternational US325yr Online access to single copy 50 Cop yright2020 All rights reser ved ISSN 17184177 Publications Mail No 09786 Postage paid at CP A SaintLaurent QC Depot legal Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec The Institute as a body is not responsible for statements made or opinions advanced either in articles or in any discussion appearing in its publications Printed in Canada This issue s co ver A Komatsu haul truck at Anglo American s Mogalakwena Central Pit platinum mine Courtesy of Anglo American edit or s let t e r M y eldest daught er w as the f i r st t o spot them the other da y on our w a y back home fr om some time in the park A c o u ple w alking in the opposit e dir ection each with an ic e cr eam c one All thr ee of m y kids kne w immediat e ly the origin of those tr eat s and w e made a har d lef t turn Our loc al ic e cr eam shop had seiz ed on the f i r st w arm sunn y S a tur da y of the y ear t o t est the mark et T he o wner s had slid the fr ee z er chest s of ic e cr eam t o the fr ont of the st or e Mask ed and glov e d serv er s w e r e dishing out sc oops t o people who w e r e w aiting at e v en int erv als along the str eet T he side w alk had been t e m por arily widened by the city in plac e of curbside parking t o ac c ommodat e the e xtr a tr aff ic By r e gular st andar ds the selection w as meagr e but when y ou c a n t ha v e the e xperienc e of sampling the e x otic f l a v our s bef or e ultimat e ly set tling on the choc olat e y ou alw a y s g et ther e is not much point in c arrying the e xtr a in v ent ory t o support the pr et ense Af t er mor e than a month of c onstr ained living no one seemed t oo c onc erned whether an ic e cr eam shop w as an es sential serv ic e W e opt ed t o ha v e c ones f or lunch and along with a st eady f l o w of other s r e w a r ded this loc al institution f or it s ing enuity A month prior when the c o r ona virus w a v e f i r st br ok e on N o rth Americ a one of the back er s of Silv e r C r est Met als bought deal f inancing balk ed at bankr olling the c ompan y s de v elopment w ork It w as only one w eek bef or e that the f inanc er s had agr eed t o buy 7 5million w o rth of shar es in the c ompan y CIM Mag azine edit or Car olyn Grusk e r eached out t o Silv e r C r est CEO Eric Fier f or his t a k e on the situation C O VID 19 scut tles Silv e r C r est mining deal pg 18 P r oblem solving is in our DN A he said and g a v e a boost of c onf idenc e t o his t eam who he ar gued w ould rise t o the challeng e His r esponse struck me as a bit of br a v ado at a time when equities tr ader s along with e v e ry one else w e r e losing their heads but his r esume w as on his side and his mes sag e at that moment w as r eas suring It also anticipat ed the curr ent moment N o w e v en if w e ha v e not c omplet ely set tled on the methods w e ha v e r eached the c onsensus that if w e c annot g o about lif e the w a y w e did bef or e w e must f ind some ne w w a y t o liv e and w ork T h at will c ome thr ough the c ollectiv e pr oblem solving that r e imagines at least f or the f o r eseeable futur e nearly e v e ry aspect of daily lif e fr om friv olous trips f or ic e cr eam t o the m y r iad pr oc es ses t o f ind e xtr act and mov e miner al r esour c e s ar ound the w orld t o pr oducing this mag azine that r elat es those achie v ement s I am eag er t o see what w e c ome up with Ry an Ber g en Edit or in chief edit or cim or g Ry anCIMMag