This June, in Toronto, we will be holding Lawrence Devon Smith’s popular short course, Mineral Property Valuation. This financial course will examine the various approaches and methods of developing valuations for mineral properties and projects as well as mining companies. The three valuation approaches (Cost, Market, Income) will be discussed, along with the various methods within each approach and techniques for risk assessment. This course is part of our annual Toronto series of short courses, which focuses on mining, valuation and finance.

This 1-day course will take place on 3 June 2013, in Toronto, ON, Canada. For more details or to register, see the course page.

A 10% discount is also offered if you register for both Mineral Property Valuation and Valuation of Mineral Projects based on Technical and Financial Modelling.

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This July, Dr. Scott Dunbar will once again deliver his popular introduction to mining and mineral processing webcast, Mining 101. The course is designed for people who are new to the mining industry and for those who seek a broad understanding of mining processes: how mines are found and built, how the ore is extracted and processed, how the waste is disposed, how mineral products are marketed, and where mining is headed. This is EduMine’s most popular webcast, and has been taken by everyone from administrative staff and accountants through to geologists, directors, and CFOs.

The three-day webcast will be held July 23 – 25, 2013, from 8:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Daylight Time each day. For more information or to register, see the course page.

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EduMine is pleased to offer a series of six professional development courses for the mining community, held in Lima, Peru between May 27 and June 1, 2013!

These courses are presented in collaboration with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and made possible by the support of Compañía Minera Antamina S.A. The courses will be organized into two parallel streams, and will be presented in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.

Processing stream:

• Advanced Crushing and Grinding Techniques
• Advanced Flotation Techniques
• Maintenance and Performance Optimization

Engineering stream:

• Groundwater Modelling for Mining
• Rock Mass Characterization for Mine Design
• Open Pit Slope Design

Click on a course title above or view the series brochure in English or Spanish.

Questions? Please email us at edumine-support@infomine.com

EduMine is pleased to present the upcoming webcast Advanced Tailings and Mine Waste Facility Design, Construction, Operation, and Closure. Presenters Jack Caldwell and Ian Hutchison, along with guest presenters Bernard Brixel, Lawrence Charlebois, and Robert Cooke, will explore mine surface water; mine groundwater; geotechnical principles in mine water balances; and the management and closure of mine tailings, waste rock, and heap leach facilities. The course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of mine waste management: from objectives and approaches to simple equations, principles and practice, and case histories. This webcast is intended to augment the knowledge of those responsible for the hands-on design, construction, operation, and closure of tailings facilities, and similar mine waste structures such as waste rock dumps and spent heap leach pads.

This three-session webcast will be held 25 – 27 June 2013, and you can attend from anywhere. Register before May 24 to receive a 10% Early Bird discount! For more details or to register, see the course page.

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InfoMine is pleased to be working on bringing the Safety on the Edge conferences to North America, in partnership with SAFEmap. Expect more details in the months to come.

In the Safety on the Edge conference, the presenters, all acclaimed, leading international thinkers in this field, will “look into the future” of safety and risk management. The second day offers a selection of individual workshops with these leading thinkers who will review the current approaches and technologies in safety and risk management. They will challenge their current limitations, discuss how we are missing the mark and offer new directions.

The current conference series will be held at these dates and locations.

• June 27 – 28, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia
• July 3 – 4, 2013 in Perth, Australia
• July 8 – 9, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia

Dr. Alastair Sinclair’s upcoming short course, Mineral Resource Estimation, will focus on the detailed methodology of various resource/reserve estimation methods that are in common use in the Mining Industry, with emphasis on general procedures, inherent assumptions, and the advantages and limitations of each of the principal methods. The course is aimed at geologists, mining engineers, surveyors, geostatisticians, and other professionals dealing with the estimation of resources/reserves in a mining context.

This two-day course will take place 17 – 18 June in Vancouver, BC. For more info or to register, see the course page. Register before May 16th to receive a 10% Early Bird discount!

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With more than 600 operating mines and more than to 80 processing facilities, Africa is a continent with rich resources.

This extra-large map will be distributed with the August edition of SA Mining, right in time for Bauma Africa, the biggest African equipment trade show.

Since it will also be distributed there, it is the perfect map to catch the eye of mining executives, consultants, and EPCMs.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity – for more details visit Africa poster maps.

The 16th international seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings (Paste 2013) will be held June 17-20, 2013 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

The promise of thickened, paste, and filtered tailings is reduced makeup water demand, smaller impoundment footprints, and less environmental impact. The promise is the opportunity to practice responsible, sustainable mining.

The forty-two papers accepted for Paste 2013 advance knowledge, practice, and the state-of-the-art of stacked tailings, whether it be thickened, paste, or filtered. It is good to read the papers; but there is no substitute for hearing the authors present their work and participating in the discussions and debates that follow. Come and join us in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brazilian mining and the beautiful state of Minas Gerais!

Take advantage of the conference and join us for these exciting activities:

• Short course on Tailings Preparation, Transport and Deposition (presented by Paterson and Cooke)
• Dinner party at Xapuri, celebrating Brazilian June Festival
• Tour to Samarco and Germano mines with an overnight stay in Ouro Preto

Register now at www.paste2013.com

Mining in Africa is a hot topic and, as we all well know, information on African countries is, for the most part, hard to come by. Last year – after a ten year break – we revived our work on mining labour costs across this vast continent.

In November, CostMine published the African Mining Salaries, Wages and Benefits 2012 report. The success of this report has set us well on our way to providing the African mining industry with the only publicly-available benchmark for employee costing in Africa. This is invaluable information for all those involved in, or wanting to enter, the mining industry in Africa.

Each year we aim to improve our results by increasing the level of detail and broadening the scope, without compromising confidentiality. Part of the work involves a wide-reaching survey of African mine employee costs.

Hence we invite all small and large mining companies, contractors, recruitment agencies, government departments and any other relevant organisations active in the African mining industry to take part in our survey. Your time requirement will be minimal as we will handle as much of the work as possible – even formatting or data input. And there is no charge for participating!

Companies contributing to the 2013 survey will obtain a FREE executive summary as well as a substantial discount on the full report.

Contact Katja Freitag or Juliet Du Preez in our Johannesburg office (+27 11 467 6873) for more information.

If you are an individual who’d like to contribute to the report, we encourage you to fill in the 2013 Salary Survey

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Do you need cost estimating software to evaluate your projects? Sherpa is an innovative, engineering-based software system that helps you estimate the costs of mining.

Available for both underground and surface mines, Sherpa combines engineering-based procedures with cost data from CostMine’s Mining Cost Service to determine capital and operating costs quickly, saving you time and money.

We recently completed YouTube demos on Sherpa for Underground Mines and Sherpa for Surface Mines. Take a look and contact us at info@costmine.com or +1 (509) 328-8023 (USA) to order or for more information.