From October 23 to November 4, Chairman Wang Qinghai went to Africa to inspect projects there and made requirements on safety production, equipment maintenance instead of repair, strengthening localization management, promoting SOP management and foreign employees’ training, etc.
At Dikulushi project, Mr. Wang visited concentrates shed and surface processing plant and after knowing the construction progress of the shed, he asked the project to complete the shed construction and put it into use strictly in line with the construction schedule. At the processing plant, Mr. Wang carefully examined each process and inquired about the status of processing tasks and indicators of the current year and challenges encountered during production. Mr. Wang conducted underground visits to 750mL pump room, central power distribution room, decline, 8-1 level, 7-1 level pump chamber, and mining drives at 7-1, 5-3 and 3-4 sublevels, and asked in details about rocks texture, roof scaling, standards and requirements on bolt-mesh support, status of steel arch and forepoling support, mining working face, roof and sidewalls for backfill, dispatch of UG trackless fleet, production organization and arrangement, etc. Later, after inspecting the just finished flood interception ditch in the open pit, water storage pond and tailing storage facility, Mr. Wang required the project to clean and manage well the ditch and water course to ensure the downstream unobstructed, and prevent river flooding during rainy season, and discussed other key issues of increasing TSF damming height, taking rocks and soils, etc.
At Kinsenda Project, Mr. Wang headed to underground stopes at 460mL, 435mL and 410mL to learn in detail about the current water ingress volume at 460mL, dewatering capacity, and safety management of steel arch construction site, and stressed that the project should further strengthen site safety management and control, attach great importance to UG drainage management, strictly implement technical engineering and process requirements, standardize technical requirements on roof support to ensure the safety of working face. At Kamoya project, Mr. Wang exchanged in-depth with the person in charge from the Owner on project development planning and deepening cooperation.
When inspecting Kamoa project, Mr. Wang mainly made instructions on preparation of SOP training textbook, cultivation of employees’ safety conducts and awareness, capacity enhancement of safety management and execution, safety culture construction, etc., and asked the project to advance standards construction of safety management in a sustained and steady manner. While visiting the underground working faces, Mr. Wang expressed regards to Chinese and foreign employees and talk with them in details regarding process flow of safety production on site and implementation of the dual prevention mechanism, further provided instructions on-site on the implementation of mining management 4.0 and put forward specific requirements on works of safety confirmation, check with list and equipment maintenance.
At Musonoi project, Wang Qinghai examined main ore pass system, 540mL permanent pump station, UG maintenance workshop and 540mL 1# stope, and inquired about the status of surrounding rocks, ore body occurrence, stope structure, long hole stoping parameter, vehicle operation and maintenance. Besides, Mr. Wang had meetings with relevant leaders from Jinchuan group and Metorex to exchange on project development and cooperation.
At Kupushi project, Mr. Wang learned in detail about works progress in terms of safety production, equipment layout, site mining and mineral processing, inspected underground mining drives at each level to know the status of site ore structure, roof scaling, bolt-mesh support standard, UG trackless equipment configuration, production organization and shift arrangement, and discussed with the management on DRC employee training and team building.
At each project during this trip, Mr. Wang would hold talks themed “Strive to be Advanced in the Industry based on Mining Management 4.0” and put forward specific work requirements:
1. Strengthen process control of safety management and strictly implement safety check with checklist and level-by-level confirmation. Continuously improve SOP operation regulation, enhance training and education, strictly supervise the process control of level-by-level confirmation to promote safety management.
2. Continuously promote “equipment maintenance instead of repair” to increase efficiency. Define working principle of “production management must also involve equipment management”, carefully carry out the management of equipment operating environment, daily maintenance, professional spot inspection, preventive maintenance and corrective repair.
3. Gradually establish unit equipment cost system. Advance unit equipment consumption as the base of contracting works. Resolutely transform the thought of “indiscriminate egalitarianism” to spur inner vitality and give full play to employees’ activeness, increasing productivity and realizing cost reduction and efficiency increase.
4. Solidly conduct team building and carefully implement working requirements on personnel training. Vigorously enhance the management team building, and strictly implement the building of industrial workers team. Carefully carry out works of talents pooling, quarterly communication and internal examinations. Focus on the training of industrial workers, technical and management personnel, and graduates recruited in recent two years. Timely grasp employees’ thoughts and create a working atmosphere of continuous learning and benchmarking, and constantly improve the comprehensive quality and professional skills of employees.
5. Do a good job in administration and logistics services and further advance the construction of family culture. Constantly practice "family culture", make good use of administrative and logistics online management software to continuously improve the management.
At Lonshi project, Mr. Wang fully recognized the overfulfilment of planned targets for ore production, processing and smelting, and inspected the stope at1142mL, 1110mL 2# ore body, 1060mL pump station and central substation, 1060mL 1# and 2# declines. He focused specially on water prevention and control and stressed that great attention must be paid to water prevention and control to ensure safety production.
During the inspection, Mr. Wang reiterated that sites should further refine safety management SOP to continuously improve safety management, showing “zero tolerance” for regulation violation, solidly carry out “maintenance instead of repair” work, implement well working points system and unit equipment costing to form positive incentive mechanism, consistently consolidate localization management to have local employees well trained and have teams well built, and ensure the daily life and physical and mental health of employees, constantly improving the logistics services through the development of a variety of recreational and sports activities to make corporate culture deeply rooted in employees’ hearts.
