we are in the box seat

ERCOSPLAN is providing the JORC compliant and technical guidance for GMM.

They are the no1 in what they do.
They also were the company that provided the above for STB, which now sits at $3.30 and a high of $6.25





The university city of Erfurt is the
capital of Thuringia ?C the Green
Heart of Germany, and a region
famed for thinkers and poets down the
centuries. It is also the headquarters of
the ERCOSPLAN Group of companies,
which celebrated its 50th anniversary in
some style of 9 September 2005 in an
Honour Symposium that was attended
by 120 guests from nine countries.
Thuringia and the adjacent states of
Hesse and Saxony-Anhalt have access to a
wide range of mineral ores and salts, and
the region became a centre of mining in
Germany in medieval times. At one time,
the number of mines exceeded 3,000.
Only a handful remain today, but they
are of world-ranking significance, as they
comprise the network of potash mines
and processing plants operated by K+S
Kali GmbH (K+S).
Potash is at the heart of the ERCOSPLAN
business portfolio. As the successor
to the former Kali-Ingenieurb??ro
Erfurt, ERCOSPLAN is a specialist consulting
and engineering group whose
core activities include project management
in all aspects of the extraction and
processing of industrial potash and mineral
salts. ERCOSPLAN enjoys unique
expertise in the following fields:
?? Exploration and evaluation of mineral
salts and natural brine deposits.
?? Conventional and solution mining of
mineral salt deposits and natural brines.
?? Processing of mineral salts and natural
brines.
?? Environmental sustainability in modern
mines and processing plants.
The ERCOSPLAN Group consists of
six associated companies. As inheritors of
the tradition set by Kali-Ingenieurb??ro,
they offer consulting and planning services
for the exploration, mining and processing
of potash and other mineral salts, including
environmental conservation and rehabilitation,
as well as ensuring the effective
utilisation of resources. Now a limited liability
company whose shares are owned by
the management, employees and other
long-term partners, ERCOSPLAN is entirely
independent from other mineral salt
producers and equipment suppliers. In
this, its Golden Jubilee year, ERCOSPLAN
today employs around 125 specialist
staff, 75 of them in Erfurt, with others
in branch offices in Leipzig and Sondershausen.
As a reflection of the Group??s confidence
in its future, it also employs around
nine apprentices.
All associated with the Group are
proud of ERCOSPLAN??s achievements
and look forward to a very bright future,
especially as the Group continues to
accumulate its expertise when providing
the following services:
?? Pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies,
bankable feasibility studies and due
diligence studies for complete potash
and mineral salt projects.
?? Exploration concept studies, estimations
of geological resources and mineable
reserves.
?? Basic engineering and detail engineering
for complete potash and mineral salt
projects, from mineral extraction to
final product shipping.
?? Process design and technology.
?? Investment studies, capital cost assessment
studies and operating cost analyses.
?? Environmental impact assessment
studies.
?? Market studies.
?? Project management and control.
Happy birthday,
ERCOSPLAN
The ERCOSPLAN Group of companies celebrated its 50th birthday in some style in
its home cityof Erfurt, Germany.As well as being a renowned university city, Erfurt is close to Germany??s
potash heartland ?C the field in which ERCOSPLAN and its predecessors gained a core
expertise as a mining consulting and engineering group.As described here,
the celebrations attracted participants from far afield.
The mining and processing of potash is at the
heart of the ERCOSPLAN business portfolio