Link: http://foboni.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/risk-based-decision-making-in-mining-webcast/
In February 2010 we will be presenting a 3x2.5hrs webcast on Risk Based Decision Making (in Mining) from Vancouver, B.C.
There is still time for us to modify the Table of contents to follow your wishes.
Let us know if there are particular themes you would like to see covered, and we will custom tailor the course as much as possible.
Just contact us and let us know...
Link: http://foboni.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/crisis-forecast-one-year-later/
A quantitative prediction of duration and magnitude of the world economic crisis was published one year ago. Let's revisit the prediction http://foboni.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/crisis-forecast-one-year-later/ and discuss how this type of prediction can be used to manage your company.
All comments will be well received and discussed.
Of course feel free to do the same with all postings from my BLOG by viewing: http://www.foboni.wordpress.com
By the way, if I have enough requests, I will make sure there are postings in French and Italian on a regular basis. Just let me know!
Kind regards to you All,
Franco Oboni
Link: http://www.riskope.com
Check out Riskope's courses an easy way to get a solid introduction to Risk and Crisis Management for Geotechnical and Mining Engineers.
Improve your skills in Project Evaluation and Risk Based Decision Making.
When delivered remotely these courses are a real bargain, and will contribute to keeping the carbon footprint of your organization to a minimum.
The concrete examples are our strenght, and the techniques we teach are proven by years of practice in the international arena for large and prestigious clients.
Two anonymous case studies, covered by confidentiality are presented in the attached paper.
a)Introducing in-pit crushing & conveying system v.s. shovel & trucking in a large dump reclamation project.
b)Long term pumping v.s. encapsulation of a very large leaching underground toxic waste storage.
The cases are presented to show that risks should be used as a discriminant parameter to operate rational decisions, leading to successful long term planning, since the very inception of the project.
One case is dealt qualitatively at pre-feasibility level, the other quantitatively at preliminary design level.
At pre-feasibility level it is shown that graphic methodologies coupled with simple procedures can efficiently pinpoint weakness areas and lead to better decisions and appropriate mitigations.
At preliminary design level it is be shown that innovative approaches eliminate the pitfalls of NPV, an obsolete financial concept still used by many. The adopted replacement analytical tool is called CDA/ESM?1 and is used to compare alternatives in financial terms, including:
i) life?s cycle balance encompassing internal and external risks over a selected duration,
ii) project implementation and demobilization costs and risks.
The approaches described above have been successfully applied to:
rope v.s. road transportation
surface v.s. underground solutions
water treatments alternatives
transportation networks
go/no-go decisions
Get the full paper
Link: http://theomanilink.blogspot.com/
Dear All,
What about reading a novel written by geotechnical engineers/risk managers Geoengineering fellows? It's coming out on the web as a free, soon to be interactive, serial production at http://theomanilink.blogspot.com/ .
?The Omani Link? published in 1999 was the first book of a trilogy where the Santucci brothers, Zeno, an engineering & risk consultant, and Carlo, an IT expert are the main characters. Improbable heroes, the Santucci brothers get to face ruthless man and women and fight to save their friends, family and life in three separated stories.
The plot of the Omani Link.
This story develops from the oil fields of Oman to Vancouver, Canada, Santiago de Chile and Old Europe (Madrid, Geneva, Cinque Terre, Tuscany, Torino).
The Santucci brothers get more than their hands full when they step in the way of international Mafia groups fighting and ready to start a war for controlling the oil pipelines flow.
After the Omani Link.
The other stories of the trilogy are entitled: ?The Split? and ?Likelihood One?.
?The Split? main locations are in beautiful British Columbia, and the Rockies, where a wide network of terrorists plans to play a really nasty game on North-American transportation systems?
?Likelihood One? will take you in the world of gold and precious metals mining, Information Warfare, Torino Winter Olympics games, Vancouver.
Zeno and Carlo fight a religious-political group trying to create and then burst a gold price bubble, bring havoc to international economy, and, of course, profit from global recession and economic downturn?
And then?well?there is more coming out?and Vancouver Winter Olympics will be the perfect theatre for the next story?
Enjoy! And please interact with the story, (by commenting,voting etc...) either on the fan page of the Omani Link on FB at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/The-Omani-Link/154422802452?ref=ts
or directly on the blog http://theomanilink.blogspot.com/
Franco & Cesar Oboni
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