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Home >> Technical services >> Future openpit mines >> Mineral resource evaluations
FEATURED MINING COMPANY
RIO TINTO BORAX
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Borax Boron Mine: is located in California's Death Valley, where borate deposits were discovered in 1872. Rio Tinto Borax operates California’s largest open-pit mine in Boron, California – one of the richest borate deposits on the planet.
The company supplies nearly half the world's demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living.
Today, Borax is acknowledged as the world leader in borate technology, research and development. Technical support for customers, product quality, and supply reliability are the pillars of our commercial commitment.
BHP BILLITON
CANADA
EKATI Diamond Mine: is located approximately 310 km northeast of Yellowknife, the mine operates in an area of continuous permafrost and is accessible only by air, with the exception of winter road access, available only for approximately 10 weeks each year by ice road.
To date, 156 kimberlite pipes have been discovered on EKATI's claim block with mining that includes both open-pit and underground operations.
Mining and processing activities are continuous 24/7 operations. Mined ore is crushed, scrubbed and ground to release diamonds from the surrounding kimberlite. Diamonds are then separated from non-diamond material using wet high-intensity magnetic separators, wet and dry particle X-ray sorters, drier and grease table. |
Mineral resource evaluations
Future open-pit mines
Mineral resource evaluation services for future open pit mines
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| OBJECTIVES: |
The key objective is to assist our customers to explore the open pit mining potential of the mineral deposit with a view to prove an economically viable reserve, which can be turned into profit in the shortest possible time. |
| BENEFITS OFFERED: |
Tacmin Madini offers all the core expertise, skills and experience necessary to exploit and evaluate the resource in the shortest possible time. |
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| Exploration services |
Target generation, prospecting permits, negotiation with land owners, surface mapping, aerial photo interpretation and integration, planning and management of programmes, drill program supervision, borehole core management, core logging and sampling, processing and interpretation of exploration data, structural analysis, evaluation, ore resource and reserve calculation and modelling. |
| Computer services |
Geological computer modelling of orebodies, data capturing and database management. |
| Orebody modelling |
Data capturing, compilation and verification, orebody modelling, resource classification, blocking and scheduling, and resource document compilation. |
| Geological assessment |
Literature searches and studies, assessment of prospect acquisition, regional target generation and identification, geological reports and presentations, conceptual geological and exploration models, and general and detailed research. |
| Geostatistics |
Population statistics, semi-variogram modelling, kriging, etc. |
| Geophysical |
Detailed ground surveys, data analysis and interpretation, industry standard software. |
| Geotechnical
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Geotechnical logging of borehole core, core photography, orientated core logging and rockmass classification, structural geological mapping and joint surveys, planning and management of geotechnical investigations. |
| Geochemistry |
Regional and detailed ground surveys, interpretation contouring and management of data. |
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