Before You Put the First Shovel in the Ground–This Book Could Be the Difference Between a Successful Mining Operation and a Money Pit.
Opening a successful new mine is a vastly complex undertaking, entailing several years and millions to billions of dollars. In today’s world, when environmental and labor policies, regulatory compliance, and the impact of the community must be factored in, you cannot afford to make a mistake.
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration has created this road map for you. Written by two hands-on, in-the-trenches mining project managers with decades of experience bringing some of the world’s most successful, profitable mines into operation on time, within budget, and ethically, Project Management for Mining gives you step-by-step instructions in every process you are likely to encounter.
It is in use as course material in universities in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ghana, Iran, Kazakhstan, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, as well as the United States. In addition, more than 100 different mining companies have sent employees to attend seminars conducted by authors Robin Hickson and Terry Owen, sessions all based around the material within this book.
This valuable book gets behind the generalities of project management to the specifics -- and all of (or most of) the decision-making protocols.
This great book provides practical and educational sequence of steps nourishing the readers repertoire of project management understanding in the industrial/processing industry. The workflows detailing the sequences for each aspect of mining/industrial project management is enormously beneficial.
The only Project Management book that treats the subject like I have to deal with it regularly. Of course some chapters cover the different themes in a way that is not very deep and as complete as in other books, but at least here it is possible to have everything condensed in a single book.The flowcharts and checklists are very helpful. I particularly liked Chapter 13, Comparison of Project Stage Work Efforts.