Free Stuff
We are serious about helping the industry and here is one area we “give back”. We also hope it helps to leave the industry in a better place than we found it. With over 100 years of experience in Insignia Mining, we revel in producing high quality content for the industry to absorb.
There is a wide range of content here, from articles, to webinars, videos, to our podcast “Mine Planning Matters” and last but not least, the extremely popular and highly acclaimed book “Crimes Against Mine Planning” by our Co-Director Mark Bowater.
So take your time and have a look around, we’re confident it will be worth your time.
Blog
We’ve written a number of articles about mine planning and mining engineering and we do like to challenge some of the current practices. Have a peruse and see if any grab you. If you’re a stakeholder of mine plans, then we think articles 14 and 15 are compulsory reading!
Mine Planning Matters (Podcast)
We’re engineers, that typically means that writing is not one of our favourite past times. So we started a podcast, which allows us to talk rather than write. The episodes are numbered so you can remember your favourites
Crimes Against Mine Planning
- In this groundbreaking book, Mark, with more than 30 years experience in mine planning, clearly and with stories and examples, lays out the ten worst crimes against mine planning still commonplace today. Download a pdf of the book for free here, or if you’d prefer a hard copy of the book, then visit our store here.
Videos
Deterministic Scheduling – So Last Century
Fixing The Optimistic Mine Plan Webinar – Hendrik Lourens & Mark Bowater
Scheduling for Non Schedulers
Reconciliation – Is it worth it
Crimes Against Mine Planning Q&A 13 Apr 2022
I held a question an answer session on my book Crimes Against Mine Planning that was based solely on questions from the attendees, no prepared webinar or presentation from myself.
Mine Planning Best Practice
Survey Results
We’ve carried out a number of global surveys of mining engineers and other mining roles in an effort to provide information on the status of mining and its employees around the world. These are downloadable reports and underlying data sets.
