Generosity is alive and well! Both Ian Glacken – Executive Consultant and Paul Blackney – Executive Consultant, believe in sharing the knowledge and skills they have each gained over their more than 35 years’ worldwide experience as geologists. So in…
At our recent event as part of the Snowden Community in mineral resources, we discussed Transparency and Standardisation in Metal Reconciliation Reporting. One would argue that how well an operation converts its resources to reserves and ultimately recovers its metal,…
This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info is from Ian Glacken our Geology Director. The frequency of reconciliation: This is an area where practice varies enormously; some organisations believe that reconciliation on anything less than a three-month increment is meaningless…
This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info is from Ian Glacken our Director of Geology. Reconciliation of planned and unplanned dilution for underground stopes: Typically, underground stopes of relatively limited dimensions (i.e. not sublevel or block caving shapes) are designed…
This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info comes from Ian Glacken our Director of Geology. Remember that the ore blocks you design may not be the ore blocks you mine: Always remember that ‘as-designed’ may not (usually will not) be…
This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info comes from Ian Glacken – Director of Geology. How important is it to get the stockpiles right? Depending upon the scale of production from your operation, poor stockpile tracking can kill any chance…
