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THE SANIRE GAUTENG BRANCH MEETING
29 November 2023
Quarterly Branch Meeting
Venue: Goldfields South Deep
RSVP by Monday the 27th of November to Adelaide Moganedi at_kadibetjo@gmail.com or fill in the form by following this link Surface RSVP Here
Please note that the underground visit is full. Those attending the underground visit please fill in the PPE form by following the link UG PPE Sizes
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On behalf of Eastern Bushveld committee, please find attached invitation
to the Year end Function, 01 December 2023.
01 December 2023
Location: GZ Adventures, RosemereEstate, Sabie Road, White River
Time: 08h00 for 08h30
RSVP: 24 November 2023 to Benjamin.smit@norplats.co.za
Details: Free Entry
Breakfast roll and Lunch provided
Activities: Free –Quad biking and Paintball Combo
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Dear SANIRE Member,
On behalf of the SANIRE President and Council we would like to invite you to read our SANIRE Newsletter Volume 9 Issue 3.
Download the new issue here...
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Join the SANIRE coal branch as we explore high extraction mining methods. A Technical visit to a Pillar extraction section has been planned on the:
Date: 08 August 2023
Time: 8h00 to 15h00
Venue: New Denmark Colliery
Limited to 8 individuals (first come first serve) - Bring your own UG PPE
A second visit will be planned later on – date will communicated.
Invitation is open to SANIRE Members who belong to the Coal branch.
Candidates who would like to participate must contact : Yogendran Arunachellan
(yogendran.arunachellan@seritiza.com) by 6th August 2023.
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Notice is hereby given that the SANIRE Annual General Meeting of members will be held on Thursday,31 August 2023, 09h00 at Kloofzicht Lodge , Muldersdrift.
Kindly forward your confirmation of attendance by return mail to Mbalenhle Buthelezi at mbalenhleb@mpas.org.za by 25 August 2023 to confirm attendance.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance.
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The SANIRE Eastern Bushveld Branch would like to invite you to join them for the Branch Technical Visit in collaboration with Council Tour.
We look forward to your participation.
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You are kindly invited to the SANIRE WBB Quarterly Meeting Branch Meeting that will be held on 27 July 2023.
Please see the PDF for full details to join the meeting ...
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In preparation for the upcoming SANIRE AGM, the SANIRE Council would appreciate your input and nominations for the following awards:
- HONORARY FELLOWSHIP
- HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
- PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR
- ROCKSTAR OF THE YEAR
- LELANIE PRINSLOO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AWARD
- NAPIER AWARD
- SALAMON AWARD
- ORTLEPP AWARD
- STUDENT AWARD
- CANDIDATE AWARD
Please submit your nominations and motivations to Mbalenhle Buthelezi mbalehleb@mpas.org.za & Fezekile Mosiane fezekilem@Dwarsrivier.co.za
Closing date for submissions is 11 August 2023.
Refer to the criteria below:
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21 August 2023.
Seminar Facilitator: Professor Yves Potvin, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, The University of Western Australia.
Yves joined the Australian Centre for Geomechanics at The University of Western Australia in 1998 and was centre director, 2000–2019. He has published more than 100 articles and is the editor/co-editor of 14 conference proceedings and books. Yves has more than 40 years’ experience in rock mechanics and mine design and has previously held managerial positions at Mount Isa Mines, the Noranda Technology Centre and worked as a mining engineer at Noranda Mines, Gaspe Division. He undertakes numerous collaborative industry-focused research projects and is presently involved with the ACG’s Ground Support Systems Optimisation Project, and the Stope Reconciliation and Optimisation Project. He currently participates in several geotechnical review boards.
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INVITATION TO THE SANIRE EASTERN BUSHVELD BRANCH ANNUAL GOLF DAY
18 August 2023
Venue: Highland Gate Golf and Trout Estate
Format: Two ball scramble drive, best score to count (IPS)
RSVP for Golf: 30 June 2023 to Benjamin.smit@norplats.co.za
Download the invitation
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Four Ball Cost (including carts, halfway lunch and dinner): R5000
Water Point Sponsor Cost: R3500 (R1500 corkage fee for own liquor otherwise bar price from club and orders need to be placed by 30 June 2023)
Advertising Stands: R5000 per 3m x 3m stand
Sponsorships to be sent to chris@mjmining.co.za
HUGE PRIZES TO BE WON!
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!
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Prof Francois Malan started his geotechnical career in 1993 and spent the next 11 years at the Chamber of Mines Research Organisation (later CSIR Miningtek). There he conducted research on the rock mass behaviour in deep tabular mines. His particular interest during this period was the time-dependent behaviour of hard rock and he used this as topic for his PhD thesis. In 2011 he joined Groundwork Consulting and worked on pillar designs and layout problems in the South African platinum industry, geotechnical problems in the deep gold mines and instrumentation development for geotechnical applications. In 2011, he joined the gold mining industry and was appointed as Senior Consultant Rock Engineering of Gold Fields South Africa. These mines were taken over by Sibanye Stillwater in 2013 and he remained with Sibanye Stillwater. In 2018, he joined the University of Pretoria as Associate Professor. In 2021, he was promoted to full Professor and is currently the Director of the Mining Resilience Research Centre in the Department of Mining Engineering. He has an NRF rating of B2 and currently has 1404 citations from his publications and an H-index of 17.
Over the years, he has received various awards for his contributions to rock engineering. These include five gold and silver medals from the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and three Salamon awards from the South African National Institute of Rock Engineering for best publications. The ISRM awarded him the Rocha medal in 2011 for the best PhD in the world and in 2017 he presented the ISRM Franklin Lecture at the AfriRock Symposium in Cape Town. He also presented the 29th ISRM online lecture during March 2020. He has now been appointed as ISRM Fellow and will be inducted in Saltzburg in October 2023. The position of ISRM Fellow was introduced in 2011 to recognise select individuals who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in rock mechanics and rock engineering and have contributed significantly to the work of the ISRM.
Between 2007-2011, Prof Malan served as ISRM Vice-President for Africa. Prior to this, he was also the President of the South African National Institute of Rock Engineering for the period from 2003 -2005. Prof Malan is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the South African National Institute of Rock Engineering and a member of the Society of Mining Professors. He acts as a reviewer for several rock engineering journals and is a member of the publications committee of the Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has now also been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.
Gerhard Potgieter is a mining engineer that has been employed in the mining industry for 40 years, of which the last 25 years were in senior executive and board positions.
He has spent the last 13 years with Impala Platinum Holdings and has been the Group Chief Operating Officer since 2018. Implats is a South African holding company that owns several companies which operate mines that produce platinum group metals, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt. It is listed on the JSE, in the top 20 companies in South Africa in terms of market capitalisation, employing 56 000 people at its operations in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Canada.
The Group has acquired the Lac Des Iles mine in Ontario, Canada in 2019 and is currently busy with the acquisition of Royal Bafokeng Platinum. It has further committed to spending R50bn of capital to strengthen and expand its operations over the next 5 years.
Duncan Adams is an engineering geologist by training and has spent the past 44 years in the South African mining Industry in rock engineering, the past two years with the Minerals Council South Africa leading the FOGAP programme.
He has spent time on a Gold Mine as a head of the rock engineering department, more than a decade with the COMRO/ CSIR Miningtek carrying out research in backfill technology and rockburst prevention and control, before working for the MHSC as the Fall of Ground Programme Manager. Duncan then established his own consulting company focusing on rock mechanics training, FoG safety and working with the Minerals Council in their MOSH Learning Hub for more than 10 years.
After retiring in 2017 he returned to help with the FOGAP programme in 2021, a challenge that he regards as a great privilege to be a part of.
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Dear SANIRE Member,
On behalf of the Institute President and Vice President , we would like to welcome and ccongratulate the newly elected SANIRE Council (2023 – 2025).
The members elected to the SANIRE Council are:
- Glorious Nkosi - Siyanda Bakgatla
- Sifiso Mashile - Anglo American
- Obakeng Rakumakoe - Minerals Council SA
- Pearl Mosiane - Dwarsrivier Chrome
- Jeanne Walls - Anglo American
- Jannie Maritz - University of Pretoria
- Thandile Dlokweni - Anglo American
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Dear SANIRE Member,
Kindly contribute any articles towards the next SANIRE Newsletter issue. Please forward a neatly formatted word document to info@sanire.co.za / mbalenhleb@mpas.org.za by the 15 June 2023. We look forward to receiving your contributions and nomination for the next Rock Talk Issue.
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Dear SANIRE Member,
Please find attached SANIRE Gauteng Branch Quarterly Meeting Save the Date, 29 June 2023.
Please RSVP before the 22nd June 2023 by e-mail to Phumza Banjwa phumzabanjwa@gmail.com the Gauteng Branch Secretary.
SANIRE Gauteng Branch
Date : 29 th of June 2023
Time : 08:30 for 09:00
Venue : Sibanye Stillwater Academy Academy
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IMS will be hosting its 33rd annual Mine Seismology Seminar from 28 May to 2 June 2023 at the Asara Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The latest confirmed programme is attached.
The seminar will cover a range of topics, including the latest techniques for monitoring and managing seismic activity, ambient noise methods, ground motion and rockburst hazard in underground mines, numerical modelling with seismic data, modelling the effects of fluid injection, and interpretation of seismic data with IMS software.
Registration is via the IMS website (https://www.imseismology.org/seminars/#stellenbosch).
Registration is a two-step process: (i) create a user profile and (ii) register for the selected sessions/courses of your choice. The costs will be calculated accordingly.
Details about hotel accommodation and airport transfers are also available on the weblink, but these items need to be booked separately and directly with the respective hotel or shuttle service (i.e. not part of the seminar registration process).
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Dwyka Mining Services herewith extends a no-charge VIP invitation to SANIRE and its members for Day 1 of our Tech*Carnival-23. Additional information is available on our website: www.dwykamining.africa/events
We have amongst the following technology partners attending:
- Emesent: The Hovermap LiDAR scanner and its applications for Geology, Geotechnology, Survey and Production Departments.
- Inertial Sensing: Gyro and magnetic surveying systems suitable for a range of applications in mineral exploration and geotechnical surveying operations.
We look forward to broadening our interaction with Rock Engineering professionals in the African Mining Industry!
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Date: 1 June 2023
Location: Bundu Game Lodge (R70 Welkom/Riebeeckstad, Map included)
Time: Time: 9h30 for 10h00
Please to RSVP to: Blackie Swart Blackie.Swart@rscekusasa.co.za by 18 May 2023.
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The COAL BRANCH is intended to establish networks and equip professional with solutions available in the industry through the first Branch Colloquium.
Come and be part of insightful sessions on the 18 April 2023
RSVP: Yogendran Arunachellan
e: yogendran.arunachellan@seritiza.com
For more information
W: www.sanire.co.za
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Event topics
– Regional SANIRE Presentation
– Early-Age testing of rapid hardening shotcrete to enable earlier re-entry
– De-sloughing Project at a High Wall Portal
– GPR on a Coal Mine
– Using laser technology to create value for geotechnical engineering in an open pit mining
– 900 Backfill Slope Failure Back Analysis
– Introducing the Xcell Cyclops monitoring system
– Geotechnical management of pans at collieries
– The use of LLMs in geotechnical writing and studies
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