Mining Software From World Class Solutions<br />
to Free Applications<br />
<br />
Gold is Back But How Long Can it Last?<br />
<br />
Farallon Resources Ready to Make the Most of<br />
Campo Morado, Mexico<br />
<br />
Aboriginal AwarenessWith more than 1,900 engineering and technical specialists working on mining projects around the world, we offer our clients insight and experience in every facet of the business. AMEC advances projecConcentrating on Mining …Proving our worth<br />
<br />
It’s All About Adding True Value. No two ores, no two mines, and no two minerals processing plants are identical. Which is why our extensive experience anMine operations are increasingly requiring software applications to keep their competitiveness. The mining field is complex, involving many different sciences, and this is one of the reasons why compu6 Mining Software by Rick Moignard<br />
<br />
The Mining Industry Plays IT Catch-up: Interview with Rick Moignard, president and CEO of Gemcom Software International Inc. 10<br />
<br />
“No Hassle” Online Access to Mi<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=1">Mining Software From World Class Solutions
to Fre</a>e Applications
Gold is Back But How Long Can it Last?
Farallon Resources Ready to Make the Most of
Campo Morado, Mexico
Aboriginal Awareness
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=2">With more than 1,900 engineering and technical spe</a>cialists working on mining projects around the world, we offer our clients insight and experience in every facet of the business. AMEC advances projec
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=3">Concentrating on Mining …Proving our worth
It’s</a> All About Adding True Value. No two ores, no two mines, and no two minerals processing plants are identical. Which is why our extensive experience an
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=4">Mine operations are increasingly requiring softwar</a>e applications to keep their competitiveness. The mining field is complex, involving many different sciences, and this is one of the reasons why compu
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=5">6 Mining Software by Rick Moignard
The Mining I</a>ndustry Plays IT Catch-up: Interview with Rick Moignard, president and CEO of Gemcom Software International Inc. 10
“No Hassle” Online Access to Mi
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=6">Mining companies face increasingly complex managem</a>ent challenges in today’s global marketplace. One of the most difficult ones is to produce intelligent, actionable information on operational performa
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=7">Experts throughout the mining industry have observ</a>ed this issue, noting that data systems, such as those used for operations planning and control, are largely isolated, both physically and logically.
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=8">Improving performance and decision-making
Increas</a>ingly, there is a trend in the mining industry to seek more information on which to base both tactical and strategic decisions. For example, the infor
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=9">to go around anymore. Studies, such as one underta</a>ken in 2005 by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR), project that the mining industry will need thousands of new workers in the coming y
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=10">The mining industry is just starting to make the s</a>ame investment in management software that the manufacturing industry made 20 years ago, says Rick Moignard, president and CEO of Gemcom Software Inte
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=11">With Micromine's exploration and mining software, </a>we give you many
ways of looking at your resources.
In the world of exploration and mining, there are many things that are not always obvious to t
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=12">New virtual server technology and software licensi</a>ng from Microsoft provide a platform for “no hassle” subscription access to software for mining applications.
You no longer need to purchase a softw
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=13">The universe of software used on the average mine </a>is huge. From programs that track resumes and job applications to data management systems, from the ones used by engineers for designing accounting so
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=14">the most comprehensive site I have found and you p</a>robably need go no further in your search for a suitable free code.
Professor Kroeger at the Southern University Illinois has a free download softwa
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=15">Agapito used 1,640 and argues for 4,512. But we kn</a>ow it more likely was 900. Whatever happened to sensitivity analyses as a standard part of any calculation?
Analysis
The point of the list above
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=16">The mining industry is finally adopting technologi</a>es and solutions at the necessary speed to improve the efficiencies and mining practices in the short term. This change is coming from within. At univ
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=17">be applied to optimize many areas of mining. We ha</a>ve just started to think of a mine holistically, as an entity that includes the mine, the mill and everything in between,” he says.
Ganguli specializ
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=18">In today’s globally competitive mining environment</a>, companies face a variety of initiatives and challenges across all layers of the organization. These include the workplace safety, managing the compl
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=19">On Any Level, You Can’t Afford to Miss It
MINEx</a>po 2008 International
The World’s Premier Mining Exposition
September 22-24, 2008
Las Vegas Convention Center • Las Vegas Nevada USA
The mining
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=20">By Vince Peckham and Wade Barnes
Mining provide</a>s Americans with higher than average paying jobs and local, state and federal governments with a tax income. The numerous ancillary jobs mining suppor
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=21">$43.2 billion, a slight increase over 2006. The ma</a>in contributors to the total value of non-metal mine production in 2007 were crushed stone (32%), cement (22%), and construction sand and gravel (19%)
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=22">be caused by the American subprime mortgage crisis</a>. These unique challenges are combined with common issues facing mining companies including limited supplies and labour (skilled and unskilled) and hi
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 23" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=23">and mining of materials and the various laws and r</a>egulations that have to be adhered to. The MMS is the federal agency that manages the nation’s natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the out
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 24" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=24">Cement
In 2007, about 91 million tons of portland</a> cement and about 4 million tons of masonry cement were produced at 113 plants in 37 states. Total cement production capacity was about 127 million to
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 25" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=25">Extend the Life of your
Mining Equipment.
No</a>w you can monitor, diagnose and improve your ?eet and operator
performance in real-time. If abnormal conditions are detected, personnel
are alerted
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 26" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=26">London-based VM Group* forecasts the possibility o</a>f gold trading within a wide range over the next 18 months of from US $700 to US $1,300
For a long while in the gold market the great hope was that
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 27" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=27">The (measurable) investment flows back up this sto</a>ry. The StreetTRACKS ETF, by far the most important of the gold exchange-traded funds, held 497 tonnes at the end of August 2007. By its peak on 18th
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 28" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=28">planned production. This could change, but it is h</a>ighly unlikely to change this year or even next. Attitudes at the major producers remain firmly anti-hedging.
Source: VM Group
The attitude of the c
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 29" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=29">The world's No. 1 free internet
resource for mini</a>ng and mining
investment news and comment
Every day Mineweb brings
you the key news and analysis
of events worldwide in the
mining, metals and mi
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 30" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=30">By Melissa Pistilli
Despite the upsurge in gold</a> price, global gold production has continued to steadily decline since 2000. Today, major gold mining companies find themselves confronted with two ke
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 31" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=31">Gregory Wilkins says the company will invest $10 b</a>illion in new mines over the next five to seven years.
Nevada
This year, Barrick plans to make Nevada a primary focus. The company currently oper
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 32" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=32">It is said to be a time of golden opportunities, a</a>nd facts prove it. Not only is gold still the most important money in the world; the commodity has been recently soaring in price, breaking through $
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 33" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=33">already at record levels, they should be expected </a>to stay high and even rise further until such time as investors around the world reduce the level of fears,” CPM said.
During the middle of last year
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 34" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=34">and Chile, another major producer, has its own pro</a>blems with power supply.
These factors, combined with the long lead time for bringing a new mine into production, which analysts estimate at three to
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 35" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=35">Gold ranks among the most high-tech of metals, per</a>forming vital functions in many areas of everyday life. Gold’s unique properties make it useful in medical applications, pollution control, air bags,
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 36" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=36"> 24 Hour Spot Chart - (Kitco) live charts, histori</a>cal charts
Bullionvault.com - Real-time gold bullion dealing international, multi-currency market for real-time buying and selling of gold bullion a
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 37" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=37"> Importance of gold mining industry to developing </a>countries
Important Dates in the History of Gold - (The Gold Institute)
The History of Gold - A timeline from 4000 B.C
The Gold Ledge - Histo
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 38" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=38">The best photos of open pits are taken from far up</a>—preferably from a plane flying high with the birds and the sky. I have taken many photos of open pits from the ground, but they come out as mere depi
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 39" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=39">Above: Kundana is
located in Western
Australia a</a>nd
controlled/owned by
Barrick. Courtesy of
Coral Gold.
Right: Chuquicamata
is the first largest
open pit copper mine
in the world.
Be
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 40" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=40">The story of Farallon Resources Ltd. march towards</a> production is not a typical one. The company has shortened the standard mine development process from one of 5-6 years to just two years with its par
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 41" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=41">commodities has labour issues, governmental interf</a>erence, resource nationalization, instability, creating more uncertainty in the market.
With the opening of the G-9 mine in July 2008, the company’s
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 42" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=42">By Dan Oancea
Nevada and Gold are words that go</a> together like “peaches” and “cream.” Official estimates indicate that total world gold production since the beginning of civilization has been 4.97 b
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 43" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=43">John Livermore, a Newmont geologist, was one of th</a>at special breed of people. He tried to put the geological puzzle’s pieces together and theorized that more sedimentary hosted disseminated type depos
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 44" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=44">Links and References
Anasazi - http://en.wikipe</a>dia.org/wiki/Anasazi
Atlatl - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlatl
Basque - http://www.cowboyshowcase.com/basque.htm
Carlin city - http://en.wiki
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 45" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=45">Investing for Profit in Precious Metals, Rare Meta</a>ls, Energy & Commodities
ard assets
Investment Conference
STOCKS I FUTURES I OPTIONS I WARRANTS I BONDS I ETFS I FUNDS
Las Vegas Hard Assets Inves
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 46" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=46">by Robert Laboucane
President, Ripple Effects Ltd</a>.
If you thought this was going to be easy, think again. The factors at play in any relationship with Aboriginal communities are complex and challe
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 47" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=47">under the current law, even trace how it is spent.</a>
Recently, the auditor general of Canada noted that each of Canada’s 640 Aboriginal governments must complete 166 reports to the federal government
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 48" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=48">Imagine for a moment how you would feel and/or rea</a>ct if a drilling contractor came onto your traditional lands after your leadership had been fined and jailed for opposing the exploration. These peopl
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 49" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=49">clearly demonstrated. Learning how is the challeng</a>e.
A corporation’s Aboriginal community initiatives are an investment, not just an expense and, once committed to, will go on for a long time.
There
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 50" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=50">By Simon G. Bell
Call it community development,</a> social investment, or corporate social responsibility (CSR), the nature of “doing good” has evolved from being an act of generosity by corporations i
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 51" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=51">and levels of commitment. It is important to find </a>common ground to create the synergy and support required to achieve the outcomes of the program. If all stakeholders are not convinced of the value of
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 52" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=52">supplier development and supply chain linkages pro</a>gram for up-skilling enterprises surrounding the project.
Once commitment has been made to increase local enterprise involvement in the supply chain,
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 53" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=53">focused on the appropriate sectors and sub-sectors</a> in an enterprise improvement program. The program will focus on equipping local businesses to exploit these opportunities.
Examples of where local
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 54" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=54">By Robert Schultz and Marc Grimm
Globally the m</a>ining industry is faced with a shortage of qualified talent to meet its production needs. Every year there are more people leaving than entering this
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 55" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=55">to: recruiting, retention, talent development prog</a>rams and strategies;
Adjust the organizational strategy accordingly.
Some of the commonly referenced strategies to address the problem of retenti
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 56" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=56">Trying to sustain the company by focusing on quick</a> wins and tactical “band aids.” This approach assumes that long term, strategic investments won’t be justified as the industry ultimately will have to
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 57" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=57">Links and References
Canadian Institute of Mini</a>ng, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Company Mine
Canadian Mining Industry: A Success Story
eResearch
InvestMine
U.S Department of Labor
Market R
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 58" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=58">By Jack A. Caldwell
There is gold in mining blo</a>gs on gold mining. The first thing you learn is how to pan your own gold—which at over $900 an ounce may make for a profitable weekend.
As good an ex
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 59" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=59">Featured Events
Australia
2nd ASIA Miner Inves</a>ting in Mining Conference - Developing New Mineral Frontiers
7/15/2008 - 7/16/2008
Canada
COM 2008 - 47th International Conference of Metallur
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 60" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=60">South Africa
South African Ore Deposits Field Exc</a>ursion
9/3/2008 - 9/16/2008
U.S.
MEMSA Annual Meeting & Technical Symposium 2008
9/3/2008 - 9/5/2008
Australia
Africa DownUnder Conferenc
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 61" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=61"> DATE FOCUS DEADLINE FOR
ARTICLES DEADLINE FOR
</a> ADS Map
September 2008 Country: South Africa
Technology: Transportation
Commodity: Carbon Based Minerals Diamonds July 10, 2008 July 25, 2008
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 62" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=62">AMEC 02
The Cat Rental Store 12
CostMine 49
Edu</a>Mine 60
Geosoft Inc. 63
Griffin 41
Hard Assets –
Investment Conference 45
Matrikon 25
Metso Minerals 03
Micromine 11
Mineweb 29
MINExpo 2008
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 63" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=63">
{ TIME TO EXPLORE }
With today's accelerated ex</a>ploration, earth scientists and exploration
companies are challenged to explore more effectively to keep pace and
get ahead. Geosoft software and so
<a title="The Gold Issue / July - August 2008 | MINING.com Magazine - a mine of information page 64" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=grrfg&pageid=64">A FULLY INTEGRATED MINING MANAGEMENT SOLUTION</a>
EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE 5,200 MILES APART
MINING DYNAMICS
BRIDGES THE GAP
In order fo
<a href="http://www.zmags.com" tile="Create online magazines at zmags.com">Zmags improved online publishing</a>
This publication requires version 8 of the Flash Player It appears that you do not have Flash Player 8 installed.
Please Click Here
to download the Flash plugin.
