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Recycled plastic bottles safely beat rock blasting

Being able to carry out rock blasting safely and within acceptable environmental and societal parameters is one the biggest challenges quarries and smaller mines in close proximity to urban areas, face.

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VBKOM delivers personalised XPAC Master Class

Ben Bruwer, one of VBKOM’s in-house XPAC Principals, recently presented an intensive 1-on-1, 5-day training program in XPAC mine scheduling.

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Fast-tracking projects through Operational Readiness

Operational Readiness (‘OR’) is an integrative strategy whereby the designed solution is influenced by business requirements in a supporting environment, ensuring sustainable systems are in place to achieve optimum ramp-up in the shortest time without any compromise to the business objectives

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Mineral Resource Estimation: Do we understand the risk?

Rubicon Minerals recently downgraded their gold resources of their Phoenix Gold Project by almost 90%.

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10 Project management lessons for the mining industry

The El Segundo Refinery Coke Drum Reliability Project in California USA has been awarded the prestigious PMI Global 2015 Project of the Year Award.

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Commodity cycle has painful lessons for Africa

Although Africa remains impoverished by bad decision making on a national level, it is arguably the continent best placed to reward investment.

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POPUP honours VBKom

VBKOM’s relationship with POPUP started in 2008 with the start of our business. We identified POPUP as a reputable non-profit organisation that really contributes to the quality and sustainable upliftment of people in the Tshwane inner city.

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Internal Launch - 3 July 2015

The theme of the launch was red, black and silver.

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The Value of Operational Readiness for Change Management in Projects

Operational Readiness on projects, especially defining user requirements, is a great example of where this applies.  Our approach when defining user requirements is to consult with as many end users as possible in order to ensure that no user needs are overlooked.

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