New and Newsworthy on InfoMine

EduMine presents Jack Caldwell’s webcast Mining Investment - Understanding the Risks. This course covers the various phases of a mining project so that you can understand and evaluate the risk of investing. The technical, social, political, and financial factors that make one mining investment better or worse than another, and the risks and rewards of investing will be discussed. This course is intended primarily for those who are relatively new to mining and investment in mining, and who want to be able to make informed decisions about how and when to invest in a mine or mining company.

This three-day Webcast will take place 27, 28, 29 March, 2012 - and you can attend from anywhere! For more information or to register, see the course page.

The Featured Companies showcased on InvestmentMine just got a visual upgrade that provides an enhanced representation of companies ranked by their market capitalisation. The tables give a strategic overview of the company’s fundamental financials, as well as the individual commodity exposure gained through their mining assets (resources, reserves or production). These showcases should help potential investors to quickly assess if they want to pursue a more thorough analysis of those investment opportunities.

This investor matrix concept is InfoMine’s unique way of providing a comprehensive overview of a complex industry. It saves time and energy for investors who desire an easy way to compare data in this dynamic sector. The tool is currently in a beta stage but will ultimately find its way into new product offerings. Over the coming weeks, new functionality and matrices will be released, enhancing InvestmentMine further. Stay posted for more exciting things to come.

Current market turbulence has increased the risk associated with mining investment, making it more important than ever to properly interpret the financial reports of a mining company. Alain Duncan’s upcoming short course Interpreting the Financial Statements of a Mining Company explains how to examine the profile of a company’s overall financial status and identify the attributes that contribute to financial health and flexibility (based on new IAS and IFRS accounting standards).

EduMine is pleased to present this course in Vancouver, BC: 27 - 28 February, 2012. For more information or to register, see the course page.

New mines have been published on MineSite.

Five AngloGold Ashanti gold mines include: Sunrise Dam in Australia, AGA Mineracao in Brazil, Cerro Vanguardia in Argentina, Cripple Creek & Victor in the United States and Geita in Tanzania.

Four Teck Resources mines now available are: Carmen de Andacollo (copper gold mine) in Chile, Quebrada Blanca in Chile, Duck Pond (copper zinc mine) in Canada and Pend Oreille (zinc mine) in the U.S.

MineSite is the most comprehensive and reliable information source of world leading operating mines. It provides summarized information on production, ownership, deposit type, reserve, mining method, processing method, mine life, mining and processing equipment, and contacts.  Each mine also includes detailed information on location, geology, operations, processing, as well as environmental and social issues in the region.

MineSite is being updated regularly with new mines and ensuring information up-to-date.

InfoMine will be at the Mineral Exploration Roundup on Jan 25th and 26th in Vancouver, BC. Come by booth F5 for a demo of the InfoMine website.

You can also enter our draw for a chance to win your choice of:

• An InfoMine Annual Standard Subscription
• An EduMine Annual Standard Subscription
• 6 months advertising as a Featured Mining Company

James V. Reyes-Picknell provides expert advice on strategy, processes, process improvement, human and business transformation in his popular webcast Uptime – Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management. This webcast will introduce you to successful practices that will reduce equipment failures, the associated maintenance costs and risks to safety, environmental compliance, and business performance. You will also learn how to transition from reactive to proactive management, and identify
what you can do today to make a change.

The three-day webcast will be held March 6 - 8, 2012, and you can attend from anywhere! For more information or to register, see the course website.

Register before February 7th to receive a 10% Early Bird discount!

InfoMine will be at the upcoming Vancouver Resource Investment Conference on January 22-23rd at booth 733. It is taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Come by and drop off your business card for a chance to win your choice of:

• An InfoMine Annual Standard Subscription
• An EduMine Annual Standard Subscription
• 6 months advertising as a Featured Mining Company

Rio Tinto’s GDP EduMine Campus provides all graduates free access to EduMine as part of their two-year graduate development program! Designed to assist graduates in the development of technical expertise related to their work, this campus offers a vast array of self-paced e-learning programs specifically for those in the mining sector. This content will be of interest to both technical and functional graduates in all disciplines.

EduMine delivers topical, relevant professional development, training and technology to the worldwide mining community, authored by industry specialists. See the Rio Tinto GDP Campus on EduMine for more information.

Alastair Sinclair’s popular short course on Quality Control of Assays is coming up this spring - March 15, 16 - and there’s still time to register for the Early Bird Discount!

In recent years there has been a strong international movement toward knowing and improving the quality of information used in the Mining Industry for resource/reserve estimation. Topics to be discussed in this course include: duplicate data collection, use of standards and blanks, simple statistics in the evaluation of standards, recognition of outliers, binary graphs as an interpretive aid to evaluating duplicate data, and displaying and analyzing data.

For more information or to register, see the course page.

This month’s featured publication is the book of proceedings from the Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 Conference, held in November 2011 in Vancouver. The book includes about 70 proceedings addressing important issues facing the mining industry today.
A complete set of the papers can also be accessed at www.infomine.com/publications/ and at circle.ubc.ca.

Please note, there is only a limited quantity of the book available.