What is the cost of putting that diamond drill hole down in the wrong place? What is the cost of having to redevelop 25 meters of mis-directed U/G decline? What is the cost of having that Sag Mill or Concentrator stopped for 2 hours longer than it needed to have been? What is the cost to your company if your feasibility study comes in 3 months later than it could have.
There is an awful lot of talk these days
Opinion: There has been a lot of recent talk about getting more Women into mining, more Indigenous Australian's into mining, more Older people into mining and of course getting more Overseas Workers into mining:
Welcome to 2008, and the first edition of MPi News. We've adopted a background theme for many of the articles in this newsletter. They are about Goal Setting and Getting and generally Getting Started early in the year. They're aimed at giving you the best chance possible to achieve whatever you want for this year.
by Steve Heather · Jan 08, 2008
This months Top Tips are a series of short sharp ideas aimed at motivating you towards your mission and goals for 2008.
This article was based on a report of a study carried out by the University of Sydney, with support from the Business Council of Australia.
This article was re-printed in full after we spotted it in the regular newsletter produced by Steve Simpson.
As our long term readers will know, for our last MPi News of the year we like to give everyone a Christmas Stocking full of little pearls.
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day is not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.
Getting it right is like striking gold!
The mining industry is finding it necessary to give ever younger people significant responsibility early in their careers.
Stress in the workplace is becoming a more hotly and regularly talked about subject.