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World class underground operating practice in Bulgaria Trafford
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The specific goals are to double ore production to 2 Mt/y and to reduce cost/tonne from Exploration Ltd.
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Howes describes what is being done at Chelopech as taking the lid off, i.e. making Profiles
underground operations as visible and well-controlled as those of open-pit mines. He
estimates the quantifiable benefits of this program to be 10-30% improvement. This will be
achieved using an Integrated Mine Management approach with Continuous Improvement
becoming a standard way of working within the operations.

This article will focus on the mine and the great work being done there, including new
projects to install a Sandvik underground crusher and a new conveyor system and decline
to haul ore to surface. A second part next month will examine the updated concentrator at
Chelopech and the greater DPM world that is directed from Sofia, Bulgaria and currently
has production or near-production facilities in Armenia and Namibia.

There is a strong partnership at Chelopech between Sandvik and the mine. The mining
fleet is predominantly of Sandvik manufacture with seven 50 t trucks (Toro 50s and one
TH550), seven LHDs three Axera D07 development drills and four Solo production drills.

For the trucks and LHDs Chelopech has implemented Sandvik s OptiMineTM - real time
monitoring of operating performance and equipment health, which will increase the safety
and efficiency of operations and maintenance. OptiMine has the system elements
required to assist in onboard data gathering that can serve as an enabler for fleet
management. The unit monitoring includes onboard devices, which monitor mobile
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management. The unit monitoring includes onboard devices, which monitor mobile
equipment health, status and production output and transmit this data to the central
computer applications.

OptiMine Remote Monitoring System enables flow of data and information, stores the data,
makes it accessible for other applications and offers some basic reporting capability. As
part of the Integrated Mine Management System (IMMS), the OptiMine Process Control
System is to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2012.

Howes has over 30 years experience in the mining industry, and has been closely
associated with the practices that make for world class mining operations, including Inco s
North mine which won the 2006 Ryan Award as the safest mine in Canada. He has much
experience with preferred supplier agreements and the like and says this relationship with
Sandvik is the best example of a partnership I have seen. The collaboration is much closer
than I have seen anywhere and there are none of the disagreements about machine
performance that are so common, allowing us to move forward with achieving our common
goals, unencumbered.

The partnership has also fostered networking and exchange of ideas with other key
Sandvik partners. Gemcom is the third, very important, member of this groundbreaking
underground mine management team. Chelopech has selected Gemcom InSiteTM as its
mine production management solution.

InSite is used as an integrated production management solution for shift reporting and
analysis. It also acts as the central monitoring and control system for the mine and
provides metals balancing and accounting for the site and its smelter in Namibia. We
selected InSite as our mine production management solution because of Gemcom s
partnership approach to understanding our goals and objectives as we seek to expand
production, said Howes. InSite provides the tools that will help us improve efficiencies
across the operation, including metal balance from the block model through to final
product. This will create synergies between the mine and the mill, resulting in productivity
gains such as improved equipment utilization and greater throughput.

The InSite deployment at Chelopech is also being integrated with technology developed in
collaboration between Gemcom and Sandvik which provides a system and interface for
monitoring underground mobile equipment. This will enable the tracking of production,
equipment, and personnel metrics in a simple and effective manner and provide hard data
from which to make informed business decisions for things like capital equipment
expenditures.

With InSite, mining operations are able to link production data, costs, and planned versus
actual production. The result is greater efficiency, lower costs, and the ability to continuously
improve performance of all processes, activities, and equipment.

Sandvik has developed an in-depth understanding of the demands of modern mining

operations and how automation of loading and hauling processes in the mining cycle can
contribute to the improvement of safety and efficiency of ore transportation, explains Allen
Vaughn, Executive Vice President of Gemcom. Sandvik s desire to provide customers with
more in-depth knowledge on the condition of the equipment for maintenance purposes, as
well as production monitoring to more effectively manage draw and production control,
creates the opportunity to leverage InSite.

Chelopech remains Bulgaria s most mechanized underground mine. The deposit lies in
the northern part of the Panagyurishte mining district hosting a number of copper-bearing
massive sulphide and porphyry copper deposits. The Mining License covers an area of 266
ha and includes the area of the Chelopech mining operation and its immediate
surroundings. The mine has operated since the early 1950s, was acquired by DPM in 2003
and is operated by DPM subsidiary Chelopech Mining.

The mine currently produces 75,000 oz of gold and 12,000 t of copper in a high arsenic
concentrate grading about 16.5% Cu and 30 g/t Au. All concentrates produced are currently
processed through DPM s Tsumeb Smelter in Namibia.

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