SEA Resources appoints AARC to analyze its coal assets
Tuesday, November 1 2011 - 03:46 AM WIB
The company said the JORC compliant is part of its project planning of the next step for development of Burmi Energy Kaltim (BEK) thermal coal concession.
AARC is working with the SEA Resources, its site geologist and mine engineers in the lead up to surveying and drilling in order to optimise the yield of the resource.
AARC has assigned experts in Indonesian mining, Rodger Bonney as the mine engineer and Ray Slater as the Senior Consulting Geologist. Peter Macey AARC?s CEO and founder will personally oversee the process.
Slater has 30 years combined professional experience in coal exploration and mining geology, and has worked for government, private industry, consulting groups and as an independent contract geologist throughout Eastern Australia, in New Zealand, Malaysia and Indonesia, principally associated with coal exploration and mining.
Slater is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists; a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and qualifies as a ?competent person? under the JORC Code guidelines for the purposes of reporting coal resources and reserves.
Bonney is a civil engineer by profession who has spent most of his career in mining. Bonney has lived and worked as a mine site engineer for 12 years in Indonesia.
Bonney and Slater both have extensive experience in Indonesian coal, and will take a hands-on role in guiding the JORC documentation and mine planning process for BEK.
AARC is one of Australia?s leading independent resource development consultancies, and have offices in Brisbane, Townsville and Melbourne.
PT Bumi Energy Kaltim (BEK) is a 3,281 ha high quality thermal coal mining concession located in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (romel)