LATIN AMERICA the mining industry , the environment promoted continuous improvement and fostered new ideas at all levels of the organisation ,” he says .
“ When I was a young metallurgical engineer I used to think that continuous improvement was just additional documentation , but I quickly realised that it ’ s what transforms your business , and what makes it profitable . It ’ s a part of our operations , our atmosphere and our culture and it makes work so much easier .
“ I think it ’ s incredibly important , and everywhere I go I try to instil that continuous improvement culture because it ’ s really been instilled in me since I started in this industry . In the late 1990s or early 2000s the gold market value fell to levels of around $ 250 per ounce . I think it was continuous improvement which distinguished which companies remained operable or not .
“ In 2018 we ’ ve committed to gain $ 25mn in additional revenues through cost savings , production and productivity factors at Peñasquito . I really think continuous improvement and digitisation are what we need to achieve this .”
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