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our on-site staff, is able to carry out such
a task successfully and not without difficul-
ties.”
Buritica is Colombia’s first modern un-
derground mining operation.

May the Force be with
Noah’s Rule
Force Commodities Ltd has appointed
Noah’s Rule Pty Ltd to advise the com-
pany on risk management policies and
procedures associated with commodity
sales and foreign exchange exposures.
Noah’s Rule is expected to work
closely with the Force management
team on the potential risks and market
exposures under the offtake agreement
with Transamine Trading SA over the
Bis celebrated its 60th anniversary at Whyalla with a revised contract award Tshimpala lead-silver project in Malawi.
Headquartered in Sydney with team
currently employs 170 people. A further boring operations manager John Alejos members based in Perth and Barce-
80 employees will join the team as part said. lona, Noah’s Rule has advised and ex-
of the expanded scope of works. “Without doubt, this changing terrain is ecuted hedging contracts on behalf of
almost impossible to drill at such depths its clients covering 20.8 moz gold, 12.8
Terratec ticks the box and such diameters. Only a team as moz silver, 1.1mt copper, 295,000t of
strong as this, with the technical support of
lead, 42,500t nickel and 96,000t zinc.
at Buritica
Terratec is celebrating the successful
completion of a 300m deep, 4.1m diameter
ventilation shaft at Continental Gold Inc’s
Buritica mine in Colombia.
Peruvian mining contractor Incimmet
deployed a custom-built TR2000 raise
boring machine to excavate the shaft in
challenging ground conditions.
Manufactured at Terratec’s workshop in
Tasmania, the TR2000 raise boring ma-
chine was designed for ease of operation
and maintenance, while providing a high
level of reliability. The unit is designed to
execute raises of up to 500m at 2.4m di-
ameter and larger ones up to 4.1m diam-
eter (of shorter depths).
“Not all raise boring equipment is ca-
pable of working with such robustness in
these conditions,” Terratec regional raise
Terratec has completed the first shaft at Continental Gold’s Buritica mine in Colombia

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