Mining Magazine October 2019 | Page 126

SSR MINING INC .
126 ability to understand what the other expects . “ A good partnership will involve mutual communication at all times and a joint ability to deliver something that works well together . I know when it comes to some of these smaller AWS or Azure partners , we would choose a vendor that has the skills and abilities internally to do the job , but that can also align with our nimbleness ,” he explains . “ A lot of our infrastructure dovetails into Microsoft and AWS . Amazon can give us a nice little angle in terms of IoT endpoints and it offers us a much larger vendor footprint , too . With AWS , we would get involved with the cyber types when it comes to industrial .”
With a determination to not rest on its previous successes , Thomas affirms SSR Mining isn ’ t at the finish line yet and he still considers it a small and medium-sized enterprise ( SME ), despite revenues of over $ 400mn in 2018 . “ In mining terms , our revenue is relatively small . I think once you get into the $ 2-4bn range of market capitalization , that ’ s when you can be
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