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Robert Hall,
UBC CANADA
REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER ASSET MANAGEMENT
The field of Asset Management is critical for mining companies if they wish to improve their bottom line. A key
component of asset management is maintenance, which can represent from 25 to 45 percent of the operating cost
of an open pit mine. Companies’ have expended varying amounts of effort to reduce these costs, using current
trends such as Reliability Centred Maintenance, Total Quality Maintenance and Lean Maintenance to name a few.
However, to date in the Mining Industry the results have been mixed.
This presentation will give an overview of current trends and practices for maintenance management and execution.
These will be examined with respect to their potential for success based on experience with and examples from
several mining operations. The presentation will end with a discussion of a proposed path forward for companies
to reduce their maintenance cost using a combination of basic and advanced tools.
Frank S. Hicks,
Technical Services Manager, Jacobs Engineering S.A. (JESA)
IM-O-01
AVOIDING PITFALLS IN FEASIBILITY STUDIES
IM-O-02
This paper will discuss the key elements in planning and executing a feasibility study. The paper will contain some
examples of actual projects where a step was omitted or not performed properly - resulting in later problems with
the project that could have been prevented.
The focus of this paper will be on minerals and chemical projects that have been performed by Jacobs over the last
20 years.