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Snowden Optiro Welcomes Five New Valuable Members
Lunch, where all the tough problems are solved!
Welcome Alessandro Silva – Head of Advisory, Americas
Matt Mullins appointed EMEAA Head of Advisory
Welcome, Stefan Mujdrica – Executive Consultant
Announcement: Snowden to merge with Optiro to form Snowden Optiro
We are excited to announce that Snowden is merging with Optiro to create the premier mining advisory firm Snowden Optiro after Optiro was acquired by Datamine. Snowden Optiro brings together some of the world’s best mining consultants allowing us to share best-practices, form strong project delivery teams, and bring fresh…
Planning For the Average Is Planning To Be Average – Part 2
Tarrant Elkington General Manager at Snowden In my last article, I talked about the fact that there is a lot of value left on the table by failing to model relationships in your optimisation input parameters. That, by planning for the average,…
Planning For the Average is Planning to be Average – Part 1
Tarrant Elkington General Manager at Snowden In an earlier post I talked about the importance of the block value calculation and how it is the heart (and mind) of mine optimisation. Here is the simple (and brilliant) formula: BV = [(P-S)RG –…
The Most Meaningful Image in Mine Optimisation
Author: Tarrant Elkington, General Manager It has been said that a picture tells a thousand words. I find this is particularly true in technical disciplines. My question for the day is: which image tells the most meaningful story in mine…