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YEAR	REF	COMPANY	SHAFT or OPERATION	MINING INDUSTRY	DESCRIPTION
2018	BIECON/18/04	Sibanye-Stillwater	Ikamva shaft	Gold	Determining the new decline station layout and facility requirements between current and new designs for 46- and 47-level.
2018	BIECON/18/05	Sibanye-Stillwater	Ikamva shaft	Gold	De-bottlenecking of the decline development waste rock handling while sinking the new decline.
2017	BIECON/17/32	Kankola Copper mines	Kankola 4 shaft	Copper	A comprehensive logistic study on rock, personnel and material for the Konkola 4 shaft PFS study. The simulation study results identified enormous shortcomings in the logistics of the mine, whicg warrant reviewing the mining schedules and sequences.
2017	BIECON/17/31	Sibanye-Stillwater	Beatrix 2 plant	Gold	A surface trucking and screening plant simulation to identify the capability of the contractor rock handling system.
2017	BIECON/17/30	Sibanye-Stillwater	Beatrix 3 shaft	Gold	A technical simulation study determining the operational impact of installing proximity detection systems (PDS) on horizontal underground tramming equipment. PDS systems have recently becoming a non-negotionable requirement in the mining industry to eliminate underground accidents.
2017	BIECON/17/27	AngloGold Ashanti	Vaal River surface	Gold	AngloGold Ashanti Vaal River operations have a complex supply strategy from shafts or dumps to plants. A comprehensive simulation study evaluated all apects to find the most optimised supply transportation system.
2017	BIECON/17/25	Modikwa mine	Modikwa North shaft	Platinum	An evaluation of waste handling equipment for access development on the new production levels of the mine identified the preferred conveyor equipment and showed shortcomings in the development cycles.
2017	BIECON/17/17	SibanyeGold	Beisa 4 shaft	Gold	A simulation study provided insight on tramming procedures and the equipment quantities for 19-level.
2017	BIECON/17/16	SibanyeGold	Hlanganani shaft	Gold	The study demonstarated the true capacities of four production levels on the shaft considering the current and improved tramming strategies.
2017	BIECON/17/15	Goldfields	South Deep mine	Gold
2017	BIECON/17/12	Goldfields	South Deep mine	Gold	A comprhensive logistic study of the Twin shaft and horizontal transportation of personnel confirms the shaft's ultimate service capacity and face shift availability.
2017	BIECON/17/10	AngloGold Ashanti	Great Noligwa shaft pillar	Gold	A logistic study for the PFS to evaluate the shaft capacities and horizontal tramming capaities for the project.
2017	BIECON/17/09	Goldfields	South Deep mine	Gold	A desktop study on how to change the shift arrangements for the shaft's continiuos operations into a modern and effective shift system.
2017	BIECON/17/08	Worley Parsons	Wafi Golphu mine	Copper	A comprehensive logistic study simulation of the FS indicating the critical logistic components, which were reviewed in an updated study.
2017	BIECON/17/05	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	A time and motion study on backfill placing processes.
2017	BIECON/17/02	Implats	16 shaft	Platinum	Rock flow simulation study considering alternative transferring and cross tramming strategies for Impala 16 shaft. The study also evaluated the maximum hoisting abaility with shaft ore pass failures.
2016	BIECON/16/36	Implats	16 Shaft	Platinum	A simulation study of a typical Merensky and UG2 reef railine, demonstrating the maximum stoping outputs for a half level production principle.
2016	BIECON/16/34	SibanyeGold	Hlanganani shaft	Gold	A logistic study for the FS desining the decline systems for mining below 50-level. The study demonstarated the shaft capacities of existing shafts to handle the future mine extension.
2016	BIECON/16/31	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	A comprehensive logistic study for the Growth PFS on Moab Khotsong mine, accessing the Zaaiplaats II area multiple shafts (small winder concepts)
2016	BIECON/16/30	AngloGold Ashanti	VR Region	Gold	An optimisation study looking into scoring face time by implementing additional and more effective travelling and transportation stategies. The study measured existing travelling of production crews to validate the actual face times for two shafts.
2016	BIECON/16/29	AngloGold Ashanti	Kopanang mine	Gold	A shaft logistic study evaluating the possibility to put one of two personnel and material winders on a care and maintenance program.
2016	BIECON/16/26	AngloGold Ashanti	Siguiri Gold mine	Gold	A comprehnsive simulation of the mine's load and haul production schedule to existing and the additional surface ROM pads, crusher circuits and stockpiling strategies. The study evaluated the life of mine outputs of the milling plant with a 12Mtpa production capacity.
2016	BIECON/16/25	AngloGold Ashanti	Surface rail Metallurgical	Gold	AngloGold Ashanti Vaal River operations have a complex supply strategy from shafts or dumps to plants. A comprehensive simulation study evaluated all apects to find the most optimised supply transportation system.
2016	BIECON/16/16	Implats	16 Shaft	Platinum	A logistic gap analysis of all the logistic systems of the operation. Significant additionations and changes were recommended during the build-up startegy after it becomes clear that a logistic gap between design and installation is evident.
2016	BIECON/16/15	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	A comprehensive logistic study for the Growth PFS on Moab Khotsong mine, accessing the Zaaiplaats II area multiple shafts (small winder concepts).
2016	BIECON/16/12	IMPALA	20 Shaft	Platinum	A comprehensive logistic study of the mine during the build-up of the production.
2016	BIECON/16/10	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	A fact finding analysis of the vertical shaft activities during personnel and material handling. The study demonstrated the impact of changes in the material supply strategy of the mine, and benchmarked these changes on the companies other operations searching for the same effect.
2016	BIECON/16/06	Bokoni	Seekoegat project	Platinum	A conceptual study of the Seekoegat project logistics.
2016	BIECON/16/05	AngloGold Ashanti	VR Region	Gold	Time and motion studies on three of AngloGold Ashanti operations. The study determined the real factors for lost blasts and measured the actual time available for conducting productive work in stope faces.
2015	BIECON/15/27	Wesizwe	Bakubung mine	Platinum	A simulation study of the shaft kibble hoisting phase during development of the mine. The study showed the impact of extra activities on the advance rate of the mine.
2015	BIECON/15/25	SibanyeGold	Beatrix North shaft	Gold	A logistic simulation study for the PFS to consider the five level production design of the project below 26-level.
2015	BIECON/15/23	AngloGold Ashanti	Savuka mine	Gold	A trucking simulation of the West Wits complex reef from three operations to two plants using public roads and definite safety strategies.
2015	BIECON/15/22	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	A simulation study of the mine's high production sfere using ore transfer and cross tramming strategies.
2015	BIECON/15/21	AngloGold Ashanti	Kopanang mine	Gold	A logistic simulation study of opening an inter-level,accessing with a decline and existing horizontal level, producing high volumes reef.
2015	BIECON/15/19	Modikwa	North/South1	Platinum	Evaluating the effectiveness of the compressed air system of the mine. The study marked all leakages and produced an action list with a repair program according severity of the leakage. The study recommended pipe changes to overcome the undesirable pressure situation in stopes far from the compressed air source.
2015	BIECON/15/16	AngloGold Ashanti	Mponeng mine	Gold	A comprhensive logistic study of the below 120 phase 3 decline PFS. The study simulated the development and steady state production phases of the decline.
2015	BIECON/15/14	AngloGold Ashanti	Siguiri Gold mine	Gold	A comprehnsive simulation of the mine's load and haul production schedule to existing and the additional surface ROM pads, crusher circuits and stockpiling strategies. The study evaluated the life of mine outputs of the milling plant with a 12Mtpa production capacity.
2015	BIECON/15/13	Lonmin	Engineering Services	Platinum	Investigating the existing bus routes for the Lonmin Marikana complex. The study aims to align the bus routes with the demand from all the shaft and decline operations and make provision for public usage of the Maikana community.
2015	BIECON/15/12	RSVSA	Palabora Copper	Copper	A comprehensive logistic study for the PFS and FS for the Lift II project. The study used continious improvement principles to succesfully implement monitoring of outputs.
2015	BIECON/15/04	Impala	20 shaft	Platinum	A benchmarking study considering all types of drill rigs used on the Impala operations. Time and Motion studies on 16 shaft, 20 shaft and 11C shaft form the basis of the benchmarking.
2015	BIECON/15/03	Wesizwe	Bakubung mine	Platinum	A shaft logistic study re-evaluating the cage configuration of the Bakubung shafts.
2014	BIECON/14/52	RSV	Palabora Copper	Copper	A series of simulation studies evaluating the additional workforce entering the mine (for the Lift II construction period) and the impact of that on mine gate control and shaft schedules.
2014	BIECON/14/49	Worley Parsons	Walfi-Golpu	Copper	A comprehensive rock handlinglogistic study simulation of the FS & Update study indicating the critical logistic components. The study evaluated alternative rock handling equipment for effectiveness.
2014	BIECON/14/48	Lonmin	Engineering Services	Platinum
2014	BIECON/14/46	RSVSA	Palabora Copper mine	Copper	A comprehensive logistic study for the PFS and FS for the Lift II project. The study used continious improvement principles to succesfully implement monitoring of outputs.
2014	BIECON/14/45	SibanyeGold	Ikamva Shaft	Gold	A logistic study for the new 46/47 decline design.
2014	BIECON/14/44	SibanyeGold	Hlanganani shaft	Gold	A logistic study for the new decline system below 50-level.
2014	BIECON/14/42	AngloGold Ashanti	Tau Tona mine	Gold	A Time and Motion study of the reef boring process on Tau Tona mine. The study updated the AGA executives on the succesfulnes of the reef boring process implementation.
2014	BIECON/14/34	Impala Platinum	16 Shaft	Platinum	A benchmarking study considering all types of drill rigs used on the Impala operations. Time and Motion studies on 16 shaft, 20 shaft and 11C shaft form the basis of the benchmarking.
2014	BIECON/14/29	Glencore	Blinkpan colliery	Coal	Animation of the tip and conveyor integration for Blinkpan colliery.
2014	BIECON/14/28	AngloGold Ashanti	Moab Khotsong mine	Gold	Determining the logistic constraints of the shaft.
2014	BIECON/14/26	Glencore	Gloria mine	Coal	Animation of traffic congestion on the decline of Gloria mine.
2014	BIECON/14/25	Barrick Africa	Bulyanhulu	Gold	Evaluating the impact of face shift availability for mining crews using self propelled personnel carriers while refurbishment of the shaft.
2014	BIECON/14/23	SibanyeGold	Beisa	Uranium	A comprhensive logistic study considering rehabilitation requirements for Beisa shaft when upgrading existing haulages for the uranium mining resource.
2014	BIECON/14/19	Modikwa mine	North/South 1	Platinum	A time and motion study of face drilling during stoping operation considering the available face time.
2014	BIECON/14/15	AngloGold Ashanti	ATIC Tau Tona mine	Gold	Modelling of the UHSB plant to evaluate the final design capability.
2014	BIECON/14/13	Gem Diamonds	Ghaghoo mine	Diamonds	A logistic study considering various mining methods for the diamond mine in Botswana.
2014	BIECON/14/10	AEMFC	Vlakfontein colliery	Coal	A simulation study considering trucking and hauling options for Vlakfontein mine using actual data measured on the system.
2014	BIECON/14/07	Modikwa mine	North/South 1/South2	Platinum	A comprhensive TMM requirements study for the three shafts of Modikwa mine to affect the effectiveness of the operations.
2014	BIECON/14/05	Bokoni Platinum	Brakfontein shaft	Platinum	A surface material logistics study integrated with the decline material handling capability of Brakfontein shaft.
2013	BIECON/13/36	Lonmin	Hossy shaft	Platinum	A comprehensive logistic study for the deepened mine.
2013	BIECON/13/35	RSVSA	PMC	Copper	A simulation study of the rock handling infrastructure and equipmet for the Lift II project. The study made recommendations to increase the decline conveyor throughput rates.
2013	BIECON/13/33	Goldfields	SouthDeep mine	Gold	A workshop facilities layout simulation considering the life of mine requirements of the Twin shaft operations.
2013	BIECON/13/32	Wesizwe	Bakubung mine	Platinum	Animation of 72-level shaft station and facility arrangements for executive level.
2013	BIECON/13/29	Amplats	AmandelBult 5 shaft	Platinum	A logistic study on the surface personnel and material facility layouts.
2013	BIECON/13/28	SibanyeGold	Beatrix 3 shaft	Gold	Rock flow simulation study of Beatrix 3 shaft when mining the bottom levels of the existing mine.
2013	BIECON/13/26	RandGold Resources	Kibali mine	Gold	Rock flow simulation study for the FS evaluating the final design for the rock flow tramming level.
2013	BIECON/13/22	Fox Projects	Fox	Platinum	A time and motion study on various developing cycles for Fox projects, which were used in a mine design criteria document for their client.
2013	BIECON/13/21	AngloGold Ashanti	Mponeng mine	Gold	A detailed implementation simulation study to evaluate the impact of installing logistic elements on the Phase 1 decline mining the CL reef on Mponeng mine.
2013	BIECON/13/19	Wesizwe	Bakubung mine	Platinum	A comprehensive logistic study for the FS of the mine.
2013	BIECON/13/15	Bokoni Platinum	Middelpunt Hill	Platinum	A logistic study for phase 2 of the Middelpunt hill shaft.
2013	BIECON/13/13	RSV	PMC	Copper	A comprehensive optimisation study on the personnel and material shaft activities. The shaft needed to double the throughput of personnel and material for the Lift II project.
2013	BIECON/13/12	SibanyeGold	Driefontein mine	Gold	A simulation study considering tramming strategies between a number of the Driefontein operation to No. 1 shaft.
2013	BIECON/13/08	Two River Platinum	TRP	Platinum	A personnel bus optimisation study to align the bus schedules with the mine shaft schedules.
2013	BIECON/13/07	Bokoni Platinum	Middelpunt Hill	Platinum	A comprhensive logistic study for future phases of Middelpunt Hill and brakfontein shafts.
2013	BIECON/13/03	African Barrick Gold	Bulyanhulu	Gold	A comprhensive logistic simulation considering mining and logistic requirements of the life om mine.
2013	BIECON/13/01	AngloGold Ashanti	SVP Ops	Gold	A time and motion study of the development cysles on three of AngloGold Ashanti's shafts to understand the performance of the development cycles before continious operations can be considered for the development crews.

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