Tacmin Madini focuses on high value added business solutions for open pit mining

FEATURED MINING COMPANY

BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION

PERU

The Pierina gold mine: is located in the Andean Cordillera in the Department of Ancash in north-central Peru, approximately 10 kilometres northwest of the city of Huaraz, at an altitude of approximately 4,100 metres.

Pierina is an open-pit, truck-and-loader operation. Ore is crushed and transported through an overland conveyor to the leach pad area.

Run-of-mine ore is trucked directly to a classic valley-fill type of leach pad.

ARGENTINA

The Veladero gold mine: is located in the San Juan Province of Argentina, immediately to the south of the Pascua-Lama property in the highly prospective Frontera District.

The property is located at elevations of 4,000 and 4,850 metres above sea level, approximately 374 kilometres northwest of the city of San Juan.

Veladero is a conventional open-pit operation where ore is crushed by a two-stage crushing process and transported via overland conveyor and trucks to the leach pad area.

Run-of-mine ore is trucked directly to the valley-fill leach pad.

Start-up and implementation

Future open-pit mines

Start-up and implementation services for future open pit mines

Disciplines	Description

OBJECTIVES:	Tacmin Madini expertise assist with the implementation of the design and rolling out of budget forecast during start-up of operations to ensure that operations are implemented strictly according to the mine design, plan and budget forecast.
BENEFITS OFFERED:	Tacmin Madini expertise has several years of construction experience in civil engineering and contact mining, is well familiar with start-up, implementation and smooth running of projects until operations are handed over.
DELIVERABLES:
Community assessments (if required)	Community skills assessment, employment, training.
Project procedures	Cost control, performance monitoring, reporting, change control.
Appointments	Finalise contract agreements, specifications, operating procedures.
Establishment	Approval of construction program, waste handling, water treatment, safety and health issues, material handling, fuel storage, power, access control and security.
Construction	Progress measurement, expediting, quality assurance, quantity surveying, audits and performance test procedures, engineering design changes due to as built or site conditions, variation order control, regular measurement of progress through pre-determined measurement parameters, regular production of project status and forecast documentation.
Handing over	Project close out report, technical and financial completion.