Miner Miner Edition 20.indd - Morobe Mining Joint Venture

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2 Editorial In this issue Pg 3. Message from HV GM Pg 4. Safety is nambawan Pg 5. 10 Life Saving Rules Pg 6. HV Training steps up Pg 7. Student trainees achieve Pg 8. FY12 Mine Review Pg 9. BI team on a roll Pg 10. Employees cast votes Pg 11. First multi-sectoral health patrol Pg 12. Cocoa fermentries opened “MOROBE MINER” is produced by the Media and Communications Department of MMJV. Permission must be obtained for the reprinting of articles in this employeestakeholder newsletter. Send comments and contributions to MMJ.Media@morobejv.com. Ph: 472 1703 Ext. 240 or post to 9 Mile, PO Box 4015, Lae, 411, Morobe Province. The MMJV Monitor Introducing MMJV Monitor, a column where we feature letters or emails from our readers. In Issue 19, we received some feedback and here are a few comments from our good readers: Thanks, That was a nice issue there. A lot given back to the community too, which is really great. Terry PNG Power Ltd Hi everyone and welcome to this 20th edition of Morobe Miner. A lot has happened over the last three months, including the General Elections which saw the Morobe people elect Kelly Naru as the new Governor. Sam Basil has retained his Bulolo seat and Ross Seymour has won the Huon Gulf seat. We look forward to working with them all to build a stronger and brighter Morobe Province. At home, so many good things happened despite the election related ripples. In this edition you will fi nd stories of some of these achievements. Stories about opening of projects funded by our Hidden Valley mine such as the classroom opening at Malangta Primary, opening of cocoa fermentries, trainings for Village Birth Attendants and elementary school teachers. These achievements were the result of strong Public Private Partnerships between us and all our stakeholders. We also saw the completion of the fi rst lot of BSA projects delivered to our landowner communities of Nauti, Winima and Kwembu. This is great considering we only signed this agreement last November. At Hidden Valley, it has been some months since the new GM Bevan Jones joined us; I welcome him and the rest of the new management team at Hidden Valley to the MMJV team. Bevan and his team are implementing a number of new safety, training and business improvement initiatives to lift the performance of Hidden Valley to meet performance targets. For the Wafi -Golpu Project, all’s well with the recent announcement of the PFS completion and the signifi cant reserve upgrade for Golpu. The stage is set for the Feasibility Studies to begin in 2013 after stakeholder consultation and deliberation by Newcrest and Harmony and will require everyone’s commitment to progress the project to the next stage. We also extend congratulations to Conrad Palaulo on his appointment as the GM for Exploration. Conrad has taken over from Mike Erceg and we wish Mike all the best in his new role at Newcrest. I would like to thank each and every employee for your commitment and tireless eff orts to ensure we achieve our goals. Our values of Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Working Together, Courage, Creativity & Innovation and Commitment to our People are translating through our actions in our everyday lives. Let’s keep building on what we’ve done and are doing to ensure we are making impacts holistically – within MMJV and our stakeholders. Finally, I would like to remind everyone to put safety fi rst in everything thing you do at work and at home. David Wissink Editor Hi, You and MMJV are doing a fi ne job with the people of Watut/ Tsilistili and Bulolo villages/communities..thanks for including us on behalf of the entire PNG Haus Lain...thanks to you and Boina and your MMJV Community workforce. Nell Lae Chamber of Commerce Hi, Thank you for the newsletter. Looks great! Mackhenly Kaiok Ok Tedi Development Foundation Morobe Mining Joint Ventures (MMJV) is equally owned by Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (50%) and Newcrest Mining Limited (50%). MMJV comprises of three joint ventures - Hidden Valley Joint Venture (HVJV), Wafi -Golpu Joint Venture (WGJV) and Morobe Exploraton Joint Venture (MEJV).
Message from Bevan Jones - GM HV Iam pleased to be able to contribute to the fi rst edition of the Morobe Miner since I started at Hidden Valley in February. This edition has a number of operational articles aimed at informing every one of the results from the last 12 months and some of the initiatives we are implementing on site to ensure we improve our operation and achieve all our targets in the 2013 fi nancial year. I would like you to pay particular attention to these stories and in the coming months your Managers and Supervisors will be asking you to get involved with these improvement initiatives and play your part in turning Hidden Valley into a consistent target-achieving successful Mine. On the safety side we have had a very ordinary 12 months with four lost time injuries at Hidden Valley and an unacceptable number of High Potential incidents that we were very lucky did not cause more people to be seriously injured. It is every Mine employee’s responsibility to ensure that they and all their work mates leave work at end of the shift and at the end of their rotation in the same condition that they arrived in. We need to look after each other and make sure that we are not exposed to hazardous situations. We have some excellent safety tools and we need to use them more often so we ensure we reach our target of zero injuries. The LLB “Personal Prestarts” are a great example of the tools we have. I ask everyone every shift to do a LLB and ensure that you are ready to go to work understanding what is required of you and what you have to do to be safe. Please remember there is nothing more important than being safe at work and we need to work at this every day. Hidden Valley Leadership Team Changes There have been a number of new editions to the Hidden Valley Leadership Team and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the new editions to the team to you. Johan Botha – Mine Technical Services Manager Johan has twenty-one years experience in open-pit, alluvial and underground mining spanning multicultural work environments in Laos, Australia, South Africa and Botswana, mining copper, gold, diamonds as well as Zinc/Lead/Silver. Johan has worked for companies such as MMG Century Mine and of late LXML Sepon Copper Gold Project, where he was the Manager. Ashley McAleese – Process Manager Ashley has previously worked at Straits Resources Ltd, Mt Muro Gold Mine, as the Process Manager. He has also worked for Kagara Zinc Ltd, Mt Garnet Project and at Xstrata and for Newcrest at Cadia. Ashley has a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Minerals Processing, from the University of Queensland. David Wentworth – Business Improvement Manager David spent 20 years with Toyota Australia rising from Cadet Engineer to Production and Supply Chain Management Roles, a specialist in Lean Production Methods. He joined the Mining industry in 2008 with Rio Tinto to support the Cape Lambert rail operations and North Parkes as a lean consultant before consulting with Newcrest’s Namosi Project to develop team communication and value stream focus in the drilling exploration stage. Mark Handley – Training Manager Mark has spent the last two years working in Zambia for Barrick where he managed the Mine Training Department. Prior to this he worked at numerous mining operations in Western Australia in senior training roles. Simon Jackson – Mining Manager Simon is joining the Hidden Valley team in August and brings with him a wealth of experience as a Mining Manager. His last assignment was with Barrick at Porgera. Jerry Abel – Fixed Maintenance Manager Jerry started with MMJV in March 2010 in the position of Reliability Superintendent in the Asset Management Department. Jerry has been focussed on the reorganisation of the old Asset Management Department into the newly formed Fixed Equipment Maintenance Department were he has been promoted into the Manager’s role. Russell McKenzie – Mobile Fleet Maintenance Manager Russell has spent the last 8 years working with Thiess Contractors Indonesia on site in South Kalimantan and in the Balikpapan Regional Offi ce in the position of Site Plant Manager and Plant Operations Manager respectively. He joins us to lead the newly formed Mobile Fleet Maintenance team on site. Please join me in welcoming them all to our team! 3
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Page 9 and 10: Business Improvement team on a roll
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