Given the volume of technical information published in International Mining each month, occasionally factual errors find their way into articles. As such we would like to draw reader attention to two articles in which firstly two aspects of a new mining project and secondly a brand name owner were incorrectly described. Regarding the brand issue, the Galantas Gold Operation Focus that appeared in the IM June issue incorrectly stated that FLSmidth was the owner of the Denver DR flotation cell brand. The correct information is that Metso is the owner of the Denver brand, and is the only supplier of parts with the original drawings and design details for it. The second clarification relates to data regarding the planned development of Shore Gold’s Star-Orion South diamond project in Saskatchewan, which was published in IM May, and is summarised as follows.

It was stated that the production cost at Star-Orion South would be $242 per carat. The actual production cost is $148.81 per carat. The number quoted in the article is the weighted average diamond price per carat from a diamond parcel valuation on February 2011 with a 15% premium attached to reflect the average diamond parcel price between February 2011 and July 2011. In addition, it was stated that the mining rate will 14.3 Mt/y. This is in fact the process plant feed rate. The actual overall average tonnage (including waste stripping ratio of 6.35:1) is approximately 105 Mt/y.