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dear all / especially dear people who shared my time in laos

as my time of living in laos will come soon to an end, i wanted to share some of the good moments i had in laos. After all even if I said too much how i missed the city, i had more than a wonderfull time in this country, travelling, talking, partying and meeting lot of interesting people, i will miss those moments a lot in the future !

hope you will enjoy this video in return
xxx

hello

As I am getting more involve intro big projects in the company, i wanted to give you some impression about a world of crazy projects. Of course i cannot give any names of our client or specific details because i could be in trouble, but I am sure you ll guess some of the names

laos and gold mining : I am still impressed when I arrive in those huge gold mine in the middle of nowhere in this small countryside land…. Modern gold mines are nothing in common with our pre-conceptual ideas… Mining is all about engineering…. Basically, what is happening:

- first, you blast a big rock, or part of the mountain where analysis proved that you have gold and copper ( I have experimented some blast, it s not a small one, i had more the impression of experiencing an earthquake !!!)
- then huge truck ( 3 m wheel ) take the rocks from the blasting area towards the processing plant
- then all the rocks are going through a huge processing plant. Many phases transform the rocks to gold and copper involving usage of dangerous chemicals as cyanure and arsenic.
- After this long process of complicated engineering, you get your copper or your gold. Some of the mine are even making their gold bars on site. So you often got the pretty well guarded gold room…
- as the copper is mainly transported by truck in a form of copper sheets, the gold is well escorted by chopper or plane towards its final destination ( jewelry or high tech )

As you can understand the main work of modern gold mine is too construct an efficient and safe processing plant where lot of engineer, environmental and geologist professionals are involved. Most of the people working in those kind of places work everyday during a certain period of time, and then go on break for another certain period of time. We call that rotations. So people live on sites in camps. Those camps are busy are their most during what we called the construction phase when places like the processing plant are being made. Those camp are usually occupied by a population of 2000 to 5 to 8000 people. It s a real little town where you have accommodation, mess, bars, football field and shops…. This where my company do its business, and I am the one who buying the equipment for those camp. Above, you can see a photo I took during the visit of one of this camp being constructed. I was analyzing the place to find the best equipment and furniture to equipy it. This camp is now soon finished, i ll probably go back there to install all my products.

here is a processing plant in one of the mine
We also have lot of different project in the oil and gaz industry described if you click further
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dear all

being quite busy in singapore, i am unable to write anything descent during the short period of free time i can spend online. So I just wanted to share a small video i made months ago on asian metropolis + small personal touch

more specific news to come up soon !

tim