The SAG (Said and Grab) Mill continues on last week"s GEMMS (Global Executive Mining Maintenance Summit) quoteable quotes by speakers and attendees.

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So on the topic of mining and maintenance, here are some more quoteable quotes:

 "We started looking and measuring the process rather than the process outcome. Once we started to see the results of the process, we realized we had to iimprove our process." PT Inco Indonesia engineering and support services manager Steve Wood

 "Good maintenance is about doing maintenance 80% of the time and only doing 20% preventative maintenance. If you are doing this, you can consider yourselves among the best in the world." Anglo American Platinum, South Africa group maintenance manager Jan Smit

 "If you are not spending 4% of your asset value on maintenance, then you must have a very good reason for this. By not spending 4% on maintenance costs, you are not doing all you can and in the long term you will have to spend a lot more money. Anglo American Platinum, South Africa group maintenance manager Jan Smit

"Sandvik spends 4% of its budget on reseach and development annually" Roger Jannson Sandvik Asia Pacific region manager