The London and Southern Counties Minerals Industries Institute (MinSouth) holds monthly meetings at which technical papers are given.  MinSouth also organises special events, such as the annual Commodity Days and a series of Masterclasses.  Downloads of the presentations given at these events are available to IOM3 members on the MinSouth website.  Go to "Archives" on the website navigation bar and have your IOM3 membership number and password (NOT your PIN) ready in order to log in for access to the downloads.  

The following presentations are currently available on the MinSouth website:

Technical Papers

• “A Review of the UK Explosives Industry” by Phil Robinson, Technical Services Manager, Blasting Services Ltd, Exchem Explosives, on 9th October 2007
• “Review of the Industry; Government and European Legislation” by Peter Huxtable, British Aggregates Association, on 14 November 2007
• Presentation by Tertiary Minerals plc on 11th December 2007
• "Valuations for Mining Projects & Mining Firms" by Paul Renken on 8 January 2008
• "A Perspective on Surface Coal Mining" by ATH Resources plc in April 2008
• "Gold Exploration in Turkey" by Stratex International in June 2008
• “Social Issues & Mining” by Helen Russell (Golder Associates), and Maarten Velzeboer (ArcelorMittal) on 15th January 2009
• "Geometallurgy – A Smarter Way to Manage Risk” by Mike Hallewell (SGS Mineral Services) on 7th April 2009
• "Mineral Resources, a Blessing or a Curse?” by John Groom (Anglo American) on 12 May 2009
• "Finance for Mining projects for Geologists, Miners and Other Idiots" by Mark Tyler, Nebank Capital, on 9 June 2009
• "The African Copperbelt: An Overview of Recent Copper Project Activity" by Tim Smith on 10th Dec, 2009
• Prestige Lecture: "More out of ore!" by by Jari Rosendal, Executive Vice President, Outotec Oyj, on 10 June 2010
• CRIRSCO seminar 31st Oct 2011 (all papers)
• CRIRSCO seminar 3rd Nov 2011 (all papers)  

Masterclasses sponsored by Simmon & Simmons

• Legal Risks in Mining Projects - a brief introduction
• Reserve and Resources
• Risk legal and operational
• Environment
• Hedging and price risk

• ABCs of Hedging - Chris Howell, Cambridge Risk Ltd
• Mine Financing - A legal eye view of hedging - Marlon Portes
• Where it all went wrong - case studies - Donald Douglas & Chris Howell, Cambridge Risk Ltd
• Accounting and reporting derivatives under IFRS - Chris Smith, Grant Thornton
• Constructing the optimum price risk hedge for a mining project - Donald Douglas, Cambridge Risk Ltd

• Mining Equity Finance - Lessons from Behavioural Finance - Dr Elena Clarici, Commodity Energy Capital Ltd
• Alternative Finance - A Real-Time Case Study - David Lenigas, Lonrho
• Preparing Your Mining Business To Raise Finance - Nick Williams
• What Really Makes a good long-term Mining Investment? - Dr. Frank Lucas, Loeb Aron & Co.
• Secondary Offerings in the current market environment - Chris Horton

• Development of Resource Codes - Ed Sides. AMEC
• Pan European Resource Code -(PERC) - Niall Young. Kleingeld Young and partners
• 43-101 and competent person - Deborah McCombe. Scott Wilson Mining
• Reserves and Resources in oil and gas industries - Nick Wright. Greensand Associates Limited
• Mineral Reserves and Resources - Michael Forrest. Mining Research
• Resource Definition - Christophe Asselineau, Simmons and Simmons

Masterclass 5: Resources in Africa Masterclass, 22 June 2010 (PDF files)

• Professor Laurance Robb, Oxford University - Geological resource base of Africa
• Yves Baratte, Simmons & Simmons - Africa: at last somewhere we do not need lawyers
• Richard Levack, Banlaw Africa Group - Infrastructure and its impact on projects
• James Philip and Russell Amor, Standard Chartered Bank - Financing Mining in Africa

• Christophe Asselineau & Yves Baratte - Keeping it safe - Securing your mining title and keeping it
• Jon Priest & Peter Calderbank - Mine Costs: Profits and Pitfalls
• Andrew Dacey - Exploration results, true value or geologists dream?
• Numis - Valuing mining companies - a market perspective
• Graham Clow & Deborah McCombe - Value In The Ground: How Is It Calculated?

Commodities Days 

URANIUM: 23 Nov 2006 (PDF files)

• The Global Nuclear Fuel Market by Steve Kidd
• Uranium Ore Deposits from Archaean to the Present by Peter Simpson
• Rising Demand for Uranium - can Australia deliver? by Tim Sugden
• Environmental Issues from Uranium Mining - Perception vs Reality by Clive Hallett
• The Wismut Remediation Programme - an international benchmark project by Christian Kunze
• Valuing Uranium Projects by Sacha Borthwich
• Processing of Uranium Ores to produce Yellowcake by John Monhemius

COPPER: 22 Nov 2007 (PDF files)

• Copper: What does the future hold? by CRU
• Leon Copper Project and the Development of the Innovative AmmLeachTM Ammonia Heap Leaching SX-EW Process by Matt Sutcliffe, Executive Chairman, Alexander Mining plc
• Copper Smelting – an overview by Tim J.A. Smith, Vice President Copper, SNC-LAVALIN GROUP
• Zambia Inside and Outside The Copperbelt by Mark Parker, Managing Director, and Chris Davies, Operations Director, African Eagle Resources plc
• World Class Copper Deposits: Exploration Models and Methods by Alan J Wilson, Copper Commodity Leader - Exploration Division, Anglo American plc
• Reviving Namibian Copper by Weatherly plc

NICKEL: 27 Nov 2008 (Powerpoint or PDF files)

• Tanzania: Nickel’s New Frontier - Chris Davies, African Eagle Resources plc
• Exploring the Old World for New Base Metal Deposits - Blackstone Ventures Inc.
• The Economic Processing of Nickel Laterites: The Challenge to the Nickel Industry - Felix Pole, Founder of EuropeanNickel & Director, Toledo Mining
• Nickel Laterite Deposit Geology and Exploration - Dr Richard Herrington, NHM London (pdf format)
• Nickel - a touch of tarnish - Tony Warwick-Ching, CRU Steel Business Unit
• Nickel: A Sustainable Resource - How Nickel Supports Sustainable Development - Stephen Barnett, President, Nickel Institute
• Constructing the optimum price risk hedge for a mining project - Donald Douglas, Cambridge Risk Limited
• Mining and developing high grade, low cost, long life nickel mines - Western Areas NL

GOLD: 24 Nov 2009 (Powerpoint or PDF files)

• Dr Richard Herrington, Natural History Museum
• Dr Laurence Robb, Savannah Gold Corp
• Algy Cluff, Cluff Gold PLC
• Mark Wellesley-Wood, Ambrian Capital plc
• Pat Forward, European Goldfields Ltd
• Gold Fields Mineral Services
• Dr Chris Corti, World Gold Council
• Gavin Ferrar, Investec
• Fergus Anckorn, AMEC

IRON ORE: 20 Jan 2011 (Powerpoint or PDF files)

• Luis da Silva, Chief Executive, African Aura: Developing Iron Ore Projects in Africa - PDF or PPTX
• Core Mining: Developing World Class Independent Iron Ore Projects in Central Africa - PDF or PPT
• Karl-Axel Waplan, President & CEO, Northland Exploration - PDF or PPT
• Outotec: New approaches in processing iron ore fines - PDF or PPT
• Roger Emmott, Global Head of Research & Consulting and Training, Steel Business Briefing: Supply and Demand Trends in Seaborne Iron Ore - PDF PPTX
• Stemcor: An introduction to Iron Ore Derivatives Trading - PDF or PPT
• Louis Brimacombe Manager Environment Department, Tata Steel Europe RD: The Roadmap for Sustainable Steel - PDF or PPT
• Chris Wheatley, Senior Associate, Behre Dolbear International Ltd: Global iron ore exploration in exciting times - PDF