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September 2008 Vulcan worldwideBarrick Exploration has purchased Vulcan for the Antofagasta/Barrick Reko Diq JV exploration project, potentially one of the world’s largest reserves of gold and copper discovered in 2007 in the Chaghi area in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province. Barrick Kainantu, a gold mine in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea will use Vulcan for exploration and geological modelling. Cía. Minera Antamina, a large copper/zinc mine in the Andes, North Central Peru, is using Chronos to help with its pit optimisation activities. Cía. Minera Quebrada Blanca, an open pit truck & shovel copper mining operation southeast of Iquique in northern Chile, has acquired Vulcan. Ferrous Resources do Brasil has purchased Vulcan for geological modelling, geostatistics and mine planning. The company has 4 mines in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region, and is also implementing a technology research centre near Esperança mine in Brumadinho city. Integral Resource Consulting, a coal consultancy focusing on the Bowen Basin in Queensland, will use Vulcan for geological modelling. Media Jungle Pty Ltd, based in Perth, Western Australia, has been helping mining and energy companies for over 20 years with corporate presentations. The Media Jungle will use Vulcan for generating sequences such as 3D project fly throughs for roadshows and capital raising. Newcrest Mining’s Namosi gold and copper prospect in Fiji will use Vulcan for exploration. The Namosi site sits in the mountains about 30 km west of Fiji’s capital, Suva. Phoenix Copper Limited has acquired a Vulcan Explorer licence for copper exploration work in the area around the historic mines of Burra, north of Adelaide, South Australia. St Barbara Mines will apply Vulcan to its exploration efforts for gold and base metals near Leonora in Western Australia. Stratford Coal, 95 km from Newcastle in the Gloucester Basin of New South Wales will use Vulcan for geological modelling and mine planning. Sultan Corporation Limited, a base metals and emerging zinc producer in Western Australia is renting Vulcan for use in its exploration activities. Uranium Exploration Australia, established in 2005 to explore for and develop commercial grade uranium mineralisation and associated copper and gold in tenements covering 9,800 km2, will use Vulcan for exploration. Votorantim Metals, headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has acquired Vulcan for long term mine planning and Chronos for underground scheduling of several projects. Votorantim Metals operates in the zinc, nickel and flat steel markets. Zilloc Pty Ltd, a consultancy based in New South Wales, will use Vulcan for geological modelling and resource estimation for its global customer base. June 2008 Vulcan WorldwideAmbre Energy Pty Ltd, a coal-to-liquids specialist based in Brisbane, Queensland, has acquired Vulcan for geological modelling. Farallon Resources Ltd, a Canadian company with a zinc-rich polymetallic asset in Guerrero state, Mexico, has purchased Vulcan for modelling, surveying and visualising the underground operation. General Moly, Inc. a molybdenum mineral development, exploration and mining company, has purchased Vulcan for exploration of sites in Nevada. Gold Corp Inc. has selected Vulcan for its Éléonore Property, a major new gold discovery in Northern Québec, Canada. Vulcan will be used for resource estimation. Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc. Ashdown Project has leased Vulcan for its Sylvia Mine, a molybdenum operation in Nevada. The software will be used for geological modelling and underground mine design. Golden Predator Mines Inc. has purchased Vulcan for its Springer Mine in Nevada. The company will use Vulcan for mine planning, design and scheduling of open pit and underground operations. Hybrid Energy South Australia, a subsidiary of Strike Oil Australia, has purchased Vulcan Enviewer for presentations to internal and external stakeholders. Hybrid Energy holds petroleum and mineral exploration licences over large lignite deposits on the northern edge of the Otway Basin near Kingston in the southeast of the state. John Holland Mining, an Australian mining and engineering contractor has purchased Vulcan for its Werris Creek Project. Vulcan will be used in this challenging steeply dipping multi-seam operation for detailed mine design (including drill & blast) and reserving for input into the short-term scheduling package. Vulcan has also been purchased for corporate Head Office, to provide a mine planning service for clients and to support the project teams as required. Leyton Consulting has purchased Vulcan for geostatistics applications. Leyton works across a wide range of industrial markets including mining, defence and engineering in Australia and Europe. Meridian Mining Services, Queensland has acquired Vulcan for mine modelling, survey and drill & blast applications. Moultrie Group, which provides contracting and consulting services for mines in eastern Australia, will use Vulcan for geological modelling. Nautilus Minerals Inc. has purchased Vulcan for mine planning of its high grade sea-floor massive sulphide (SMS) deposit of copper, zinc, gold and silver. The world’s first potential sea-floor copper gold mine is 1,500 metres below the surface at the Solwara 1 project in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea. Orelogy, an innovative mine planning consultancy based in Western Australia has purchased Vulcan for geological modelling. Oro Silver Resources Ltd, based in Zacatecas State, Mexico, one of the world’s largest historic silver districts, has acquired Vulcan for underground modelling, open pit mine design, pit optimisation and ventilation design. QCoal Pty Ltd, headquartered in Brisbane, has acquired Vulcan for modelling and reserving for the joint venture development of the Sonoma Coal Mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. Sweetman Earthmoving, contractors based in the coal mining area around Moranbah, Queensland, will use Vulcan for mine design and reconciliation. Teck Cominco will use Vulcan for underground mine design and scheduling at the Pogo gold mine in Alaska. Troy Resources NL has purchased Vulcan for resource estimation for leases in the Andorinhas Gold Project in north central Brazil and greenfields gold exploration in the sandstone belt in southwest Western Australia. Vale-Inco Limited, a leading producer of nickel, copper, cobalt and precious metals, has purchased more than 50 Vulcan licences for use at T1, Birchtree and T3 mines in Thompson, Manitoba. Vulcan will be used for underground mine design, scheduling, geological modelling, survey, ventilation design, drill & blast, haulage and grade control. Xstrata Frieda River, a copper-gold project near the border of the Sandaun and East Sepik Provinces of northwestern Papua New Guinea, will use Vulcan for geology, geostatistics and resource estimation. June 2008 Training tomorrows's mining engineersMaptek conducted a Vulcan training session for professors at the University of Chihuahua, Mexico, in April 2008. The professors appreciated the chance to become familiar with the Vulcan tools that they will pass onto their students. Professor Angelica Mena, head of the Geology Laboratory, was impressed with Vulcan’s ease of use, workflow setup, data access and reporting tools.
After the introductory training, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Career Coordinator, J. Alfredo Márquez, commented that ‘giving students the opportunity to access the best technology available shows we are concerned about providing excellence in academic programming’. ‘We are committed to developing the capabilities of our professors, and we understand the importance of Vulcan in the formation of competent mining professionals,’ Ing. Márquez added. Maptek has supplied more than 500 academic licences of Vulcan software to premier universities around the world. Installing Vulcan in the learning environment benefits both students and their future employers. Graduate mining engineers and geologists can apply the knowledge gained and effectively hit the ground running when handed a task. Image Eric Gonzalez, Maptek (centre) and University of Chihuahua staff March 2008 Vulcan WorldwideAgrium Inc. has purchased Vulcan for their potash mine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Agrium will use Vulcan for scheduling. Beadell Resources Ltd, a gold-focused exploration company with a portfolio of advanced and greenfields projects in Australia and Brazil, BHP Billiton has purchased Vulcan MineModeller for evaluating the potential of converting the existing underground Cannington base metal mine in Queensland into an open pit operation. Carborough Downs Coal, an underground coal mine located in central Queensland east of Moranbah will rent Vulcan GeoModeller. Global Nickel Investments, based in Western Australia, has purchased a Vulcan Explorer licence for a project in New Zealand. The company explores and develops platinum, nickel and gold resources. Oceanic Coal has rented Vulcan for geological and mine modelling of Rex Minerals, an exploration company focusing on copper-gold projects in South Australia and gold projects in Victoria, uses Vulcan Explorer and Enviewer for planning and managing exploration activities. Romarco Minerals has secured a short-term rental of Vulcan for the Haile Gold Mine located in South Carolina. They will be using the software for geomodelling of their mine which produced gold during the Civil War. Xstrata Coal has purchased multiple Vulcan licences for mine modelling for the new Glendell project northwest of Singleton in New South Wales. March 2008 Advanced Design Center opens at South Dakota School of Mines & TechnologyThe Maptek™ sponsored Advanced Mine Design Center was opened at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City on February 15, 2008. The Mining Engineering and Management Department at the School of Mines is a leading institution that has focused heavily on mine design by leveraging Maptek Vulcan software. With student numbers climbing to 80, they recognised the need for a state-of-the-art mine design lab to accommodate 25 computer stations and a global communications center. Maptek sponsored the remodelling of 2 rooms to create the newly designed lab, which is also used for geomechanics design activities. Features of the new center include video conferencing facilities, a plasma screen, and a projector networked to tablet PCs and desktops. The Maptek Advanced Mine Design Center has been a great way for Maptek to support the mining industry. We have had a long relationship with the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and see this as an investment in our continued partnership and in the quality education of future mining industry professionals.
March 2008 Maptek sponsors AMIRA optimisation research projectMaptek has joined other suppliers in co-sponsoring an AMIRA research project looking at underground mine design and schedule optimisation tools. AMIRA International Ltd is an independent association of minerals companies which facilitates research projects addressing industry issues, and fosters the development of a stronger industry research base. Maptek will provide Maptek Vulcan licences, training and support to the Planning and Rapid Integrated Mine Optimisation project, which will focus on developing more efficient computational methods when complex infrastructure branching is needed for distributed ore zones. Australian Sales Manager for Vulcan, Steve Sullivan, who conducted training in Vulcan’s underground functionality for University of Melbourne and Alford Mining Systems researchers recently in Melbourne, Victoria, said that Maptek is pleased to be involved in the project. ‘We have always invested heavily in R&D and we see this as another way to continue to add value to our products.’ Sponsors Barrick, Rio Tinto, CVRD Inco, Xstrata, Oxiana and BHP Billiton are joined by supplier sponsors Maptek, GijimaAST, Datamine and AMC Consultants. More information about Project 884 can be found at www.amira.com.au under current projects. When the results of the research are commercialised our customers will be among those who will benefit February 2008 Maptek joins Australian mining research projectMaptek™ has joined other suppliers in co-sponsoring an AMIRA research project looking at mine design and schedule optimisation tools. AMIRA International Ltd is an independent association of minerals companies which facilitates collaborative research projects addressing industry issues and fosters the development of a stronger industry research base. Maptek will provide Maptek Vulcan™ licences, training and support to the Planning and Rapid Integrated Mine Optimisation project, which will focus on developing more efficient computational methods when complex infrastructure branching is needed for distributed ore zones. Australian Sales Manager for Vulcan, Steve Sullivan who conducted training for researchers recently in Melbourne, Victoria, said that Maptek is pleased to be involved in the project. ‘We have always invested heavily in R&D and we see this as another way to continue to add value to our products.’ ‘When the results of the research are commercialised our customers will be among those who will benefit from this.’ Key researchers involved in the project are MIRARCO Mining Innovation, Alford Mining Systems, AMC Consultants and Melbourne University. Sponsors Barrick, Rio Tinto, CVRD Inco, Xstrata, Oxiana and BHP Billiton are joined by supplier sponsors Maptek, GijimaAST, Datamine and AMC Consultants. More information about Project 884 can be found at www.amira.com.au under current projects.
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