Micon’s Principal Mining Engineer, Kerrine Azougarh, recently contributed to...
Mining Engineering
Robex Resources Announces Increase of Inferred Resources, Construction Update and Bridge Extension at the Kiniero Gold Project in West Africa
Micon is pleased to continue to support Robex with the development of the...
Galantas Gold Announces Resource Upgrade at the Omagh Gold Project in Northern Ireland
Micon is pleased to have prepared an updated NI 43-101-compliant Mineral...
Micon Insights – Geological and Resource Models: Understanding the Differences
Micon Insights is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
Micon Insights – Open Pit Mining Requirements Vary with Study Levels
Micon Insights is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
Osisko Development Announces Initial Mineral Resource Estimate for the Trixie, Tintic Project
Micon is pleased to have independently reviewed and verified Osisko...
The Micon Hour – Lithium Pegmatites – Is This the Right One?
The Micon Hour is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
Endeavour Financial Limited and Horizonte Minerals Plc Earn “Deal of the Year” Award at Mines and Money, London
Micon would like to congratulate Endeavour Financial Limited and Horizonte...
Micon to Prepare the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate for Galantas Gold’s Omagh Project
Micon is excited to cooperate with Galantas Gold Corp. to complete an NI...
The Micon Hour – Why Mines Fail
The Micon Hour is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
The Micon Hour – The ‘Spotted Dog’: Still an Issue in Mineral Resource Classification
The Micon Hour is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
The Micon Hour – Precision in Resource Classification
The Micon Hour is a podcast series created to discuss relevant topics for the...
Micon International Limited – Small But Mighty
Liz de Klerk, M.Sc., Pr.Sci.Nat., MIMMM, Micon's Managing Director (UK),...
Torngat Metals Ltd.
Dated: December 2019 Micon has worked with Torngat Metals Ltd (Torngat) since...
San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico
Micon has worked with successive owners of this property since 2005, when it...
Micon contracted by Sonoro Gold Corp. to complete the updated mineral resource estimate for the Cerro Caliche Project in Sonora State, Mexico
In a press release on December 8, 2020, Sonoro Gold Corp. announced that they...
Open Source AI and Junior Mineral Exploration
The modern-day geologist deals with large amounts of data: remote sensing data...
Understanding When Costs Associated with Overburden and Waste Removal are Capital Expenditures
Most open-cast mines require the removal of overburden and waste material to...
Fast, Detailed and Practical Estimation of External Dilution for Open Pits
Micon has successfully evaluated the effect of minimum mining dimensions on...
Journey to a Mineral Resource Estimate: Data
Intro As promised in our published article “TOP 10 TIPS FOR MINERAL RESOURCE...
Top 10 Tips for Mineral Resource Estimation
Every mineral deposit is unique and requires a large number of items to...
Micon Technical Statements
Micon is pleased to unveil a new service available to our clients – the Micon...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Worldwide Pandemic and Site Visits
A key part of the Qualified Person’s (QP’s) review of mineral properties under...
The CIM Code and Best Practices – Reasonable Prospects for Eventual Economic Extraction
On 29 November, 2019, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and...
Specialty Mineral Resource Estimates
Originally published on the M.Plan International Limited website on March 16,...
From Metal to Money: The Importance of Reliable Metallurgical Accounting on the Entire Mining Operation
Synopsis This article condenses an earlier paper coauthored by Derick de Wit...
Battery Metals and the Green Tech Revolution – How Easy is it to Mine in Europe?
The term 'Battery Metals' is now widely used within and around the mining...
Technical Reporting and Some Metrics Used in Studies
The last two decades have seen the use of standardized Technical Reports...
Mineral Resource Estimation
The CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves define Mineral...
SEC Adopts Rules to Modernize Property Disclosures Required for Mining Registrants
In 2018, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced...
Demystifying Blockchain Technology
On Wednesday, 3 October, Derick R de Wit, Micon Principal Process Engineer and...
Foran Files Technical Report for McIlvenna Bay Resource
Micon is pleased to announce that Foran Mining Corporation has filed their...
The Relevance/Non-Relevance of Drill Core Size in Mineral Resource Estimates
In all instances of drilling, maximum recovery of a representative sample is...
Cabral Gold Engages Micon International to Update Resource Estimate for Cuiú Cuiú Project, Brazil
Micon is pleased to announce its completion of Cabral Gold’s 2018 NI 43-101...
The Role of Genetic Models in the Evaluation of Deposits and Estimation of Mineral Resources
Genetic models are rarely mentioned in the estimation of mineral resources and...
The ‘Spotted Dog’ – Still an Issue in Mineral Resource Classification
Despite progress being made by professional organisations towards the...
Geostatistics: Black Box Magic or Skilled Procedure?
Geostatistics had its origins in the 1950s with the initial works of Herbert...
Can I Use Historic Assay Data in My Resource Estimate?
From time to time, over the years, Micon has been asked by clients whether...
When is a Reserve a Reserve?
National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (NI...
Mineral Resource Reporting – Differences between CIM, JORC, and Others
The modern mining history of every country is different but, as a result of...
Cut-off Grades for Mineral Resource Reporting
The CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves - Definitions and...
The Role of Environmental Baseline Studies in Mining Projects
Developing a mineral deposit into a producing operation tends to be a long and...
Quality Control and Quality Assurance Programmes: A Priority, Not an Afterthought
The integrity of a resource database is fundamental to a company’s success in...
Continuity in Mineral Resource Estimation
In the second of a series of articles discussing best practice, we focus on...
Classification of Mineral Resource Estimates
In the first of a series of articles on best practice DOs and DON'Ts, Bill...
Why Mines Fail
Following his presentation to the MINEX 2015 Conference in Moscow, we asked...
Dalradian Resources Inc.
Micon began working with Dalradian Resources Inc. (Dalradian) on its...
Alrosa Case Study
In 2013 Micon completed an independent review and valuation of the ALROSA...
Discoveries in Ontario’s Ring of Fire
The economic geology of the so called Ring of Fire area in the James Bay...
Tin Mining at Pravourmiyskoe
Micon was retained by LLC Pravourmiyskoe to conduct...
Tungsten Mining at Hemerdon
Micon is Independent Engineer on behalf of the senior lenders to the Hemerdon...