1. Porters 5 forces Analysis: 1.1 Buyer power: The buyers for mining industry usually have medium to high power. There are two elements that could affect the buyer’s power. One is buyer’s level of negotiation; the other is buyer’s price sensitivity. In our case‚ the two companies are producing coal and uranium. These two products are mainly used for producing electricity. Buyers for these natural resources must have large quantity of demand‚ and also they usually have government behind
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WHITE PAPER Big Data: Trends‚ Strategies‚ and SAP Technology Sponsored by: SAP Carl W. Olofson Dan Vesset August 2012 THE DAWN OF THE INTELLIGENT ECONOMY The intelligent economy has arrived. The convergence of intelligent devices‚ social networking‚ pervasive broadband communications‚ and analytics is redefining relationships among producers‚ distributors‚ and consumers of goods and services. The growth in volume‚ variety‚ and velocity of data has created new challenges and opportunities.
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SMALL-SCALE MINING (Lives at risk in the Philippine Gold Mines) INTRODUCTION Gold is the number one mineral produced by the Philippines in value terms. Although total local production was low relative to world production‚ it ranked 2nd to Africa in gold production per unit land area in 1988 and ranked 29th as top gold producer in 2002(Israel and Asirot 2002). In the year 2002–2007‚ the Philippines’ gold production increased by 8.2%. This contributed an average of 2% gross domestic product (GDP)
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resources. One of such activities is mining. Thus‚ mining became an important activity which has potential for the contribution of development of areas enriched with resources. Having visited Surigao Del Norte once a month starting February until August of this year‚ I was deeply frustrated by the negative impact of mining in the province. I saw how communities affected by mining. I heard how indigenous people had been shifted off their lands to make way for mining and how their consultation rights
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Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) INTERNATIONAL EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT KHABAROVSK‚ RUSSIAN FEDERATION AUGUST 27.-29‚ 2007 Case Study on the Impacts of Mining and Dams on the Environment and Indigenous Peoples in Benguet‚ Cordillera‚ Philippines Paper by CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE I. Background Land and People of Benguet The Cordillera region in Northern Luzon‚ Philippines
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Gold Mining Industry Analysis By: Robert 6/6/2010 The Gold Mining Industry has experienced a huge amount of growth since the beginning of the financial crisis. With the price of gold being at $639 in January 2007 before the beginning of the financial crisis and now in June 2010 the price of gold reaching $1220‚ there is no denying the interest of gold between investors and governments. Investors are seeking ways to protect themselves from inflation and any other type of financial crisis that
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CRITICAL ARTICLE REVIEW “Mining is a capital intensive business‚ so a small increase in mining productivity will often result in savings of millions of dollars” (Topal & Ramazan‚ 2010). For this reason‚ many researchers are focused on developing and improving mathematical models to optimize different mining process. Aiming to increase the Net Present Value of underground mines Nehring‚ Topal‚ Kizil and Knights in Integrated short- and medium-term underground mine production scheduling present
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Turning data into information © Copyright IBM Corporation 2007 Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM. 4.0.3 Unit objectives After completing this unit‚ you should be able to: Explain how Business and Data is correlated Discuss the concept of turning data into information Describe the relationships between DW‚ BI‚ and Data Insight Identify the components of a DW architecture Summarize the Insight requirements and goals of
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KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING‚ VOL. 23‚ NO. 1‚ JANUARY 2011 51 Data Leakage Detection Panagiotis Papadimitriou‚ Student Member‚ IEEE‚ and Hector Garcia-Molina‚ Member‚ IEEE Abstract—We study the following problem: A data distributor has given sensitive data to a set of supposedly trusted agents (third parties). Some of the data are leaked and found in an unauthorized place (e.g.‚ on the web or somebody’s laptop). The distributor must assess the likelihood that the leaked data came from
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Chapter 1 Introduction “DEAN” Empowering the administrator/s decisions Data is emerging as a new science‚ a result of the unprecedented increase in the amount of digital information produced today and the realization of innovative ways to extract value from it. Technological advances in Mapua Institute of Technology (MAPUA) have led to an abundance of digital information sources that constantly generate data in managing the school‚ coherently the School of Information Technology(SOIT). Though its
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