UK Coal, Britain’s biggest producer of coal, achieves 40% improvement in tonnage output
UK Coal is Britain’s biggest producer of coal and the supplier of approximately 7% of the country’s energy requirements for electricity generation.  As an employer of over 4,000 people and producing in excess of 17 million tonnes of coal per annum, UK Coal is very focused on maximising its eleven mining operations and optimising its business opportunities.  In May 2004, Jamieson Group were brought on board to implement a resource optimisation programme at Daw Mill, the country’s biggest underground mine located in Arley, near Coventry in the West Midlands.

How the Kanowna Belle team worked together to achieve a 5.5% increase in plant availability
Located in the Western Australian goldfields near Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kanowna Belle is a regional plant processing ore from 5 remote mines. The gold mine operates both open pit and underground and is the flagship site for Barrick Gold in Australia. The plant operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, employs over 600 people and produces about 500,000 ounces of gold a year. Barrick are in the process of divesting another of their processing plants (Paddington) and consequently Kanowna Belle will develop into an even more important site for Barrick strategically, as it will be the sole processing plant in the region.

Review findings provide immediate production increases of over 30%
In southern Chile, near the town of Chile Chico (Spanish for Little Chile) Coeur d’ Alene Mines Corporation owns and operates the Cerro Bayo mine. Comprising of a high grade gold and silver underground mine and processing facilities, Cerro Bayo is among the lowest cost silver mines in the world and continues to lead Coeur’s low-cost silver reserve and production growth. Both Operations and Maintenance crews at the Cerro Bayo mine work two 10 hour shifts, with two 2 hour ventilation intervals between shifts.

“Step Ahead” Project sees giant $1.2 million leap in annual profitability
Deep in the heart of Nevada is one of the largest gold mines in the United States. The mine not only produces over 33,000 kilograms of gold per annum, but does so with an efficiency which pays handsome returns on the investments made in the processes successfully employed by the 480 skilled mining and production personnel today.

Gold Mine embraces new on-site initiatives to double output tonnage
The expansive Nevada desert is rich in mineral deposits of which gold predominates. Approximately 340km north east of Reno is the Turquoise Ridge joint venture gold mine operated by Barrick. In 2003, a $US50 million capital projects program was commenced which included major infrastructure improvements such as: * Materials handling;  * Backfill production; * Ventilation; * Dewatering; and * Water treatment

United Collieries underground coal mine increase in productivity beats previous output by an impressive 23%
United Collieries produces and markets high quality thermal and semi-soft coking Coals from an underground longwall mine in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. A combined United Collieries and Jamieson Group Continuous Improvement Project saw production throughput increase by an impressive 23%

Successful New Mine Start Up
In August 2005 one of the country’s leading coal producers with extensive coal mining interests and prospects in Queensland and New South Wales brought Jamieson Group on board to assist in the opening of a new underground longwall mine.