THE GROUP Engineering & Consulting – worldwide

Water and Mining - Presentation of Engineering Solutions Santiago, Chile 2015 Dr. Bernd Vels, Senior Advisor Mining

Dreilindenstr. 84, 45128 Essen Germany Telephone: +49 201 125 289 80 e-mail: Bernd.Vels@fwt.fichtner.de

The Fichtner Group

•  Established in 1922 and family-owned ever since •  Germany’s biggest independent engineering and consultancy enterprise for infrastructure projects •  Approx. 2000 employees worldwide, 500 in our Home Office •  Project experience in more than 160 countries •  In total more than 1200 ongoing projects •  Total turnover of approx. € 250 million in 2014 •  Capital investment volume now under planning in the home office: € 87 billion – thereof € 32 billion in renewable energies

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Fichtner Group Companies

Together with our Stuttgart home office, 28 subsidiaries and affiliates as well as

65 branch and project offices, we are represented in more

than 50 countries worldwide.

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Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG (home office), Stuttgart Fichtner Bauconsulting GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner Carbon Management GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner IT Consulting AG, Stuttgart Fichtner Management Consulting AG, Stuttgart Fichtner MEI Oil & Gas GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner Mining & Environment GmbH, Essen Fichtner Solar GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner Water & Transportation GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner Water & Wind GmbH, Hamburg GefaÖ mbH, Walldorf IKG Fichtner GmbH, Ludwigshafen P&S Consulting GmbH, Duisburg SPE Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Mannheim

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd., Manchester Fichtner Energy s.r.o., Levice Fichtner Engineering S.A., Buchrest Fichtner Environment SRL, Bucharest Fichtner Italia s.r.l., Genoa Fichtner Management Consulting AG Schweiz, Zurich Fichtner Swiss GmbH, Zurich RESA - Recuperación de Energía S.A., Barcelona

Fichtner Société Africaine d’Ingénierie sprl, Kinshasa Fichtner Congo Sarl, Brazzaville

Fichtner Asia Pte Ltd., Singapore Fichtner Consulting Engineers (India) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai Fichtner Engineering (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur Fichtner Pacific Engineers Inc., Taipei Fichtner Vietnam Company Limited, Hanoi

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Fichtner's Areas of Activity Energy

Energy economics • conventional power plants • renewables • district heating • energy transmission and distribution • I&C and power system technology • smart grids • electric mobility • energy efficiency • CO2 sequestration/CCS • gas caverns

Environment & Mining Environmental management • environmental information systems • mine planning • environmental studies • permit management/strategy • environmental protection technologies • soil and water protection • air pollution control • reserve calculation • waste management • mine closure concepts • mining legislation • EITI studies

Water & Infrastructure Total water management • drinking water supply and sanitation • seawater desalination • integrated infrastructure concepts • site development • traffic, transportation and civil engineering • mining and mineral economics

Consulting & IT Studies • organization and strategy consultancy • privatizations • project manage-ment • financial modeling • infrastructure management • IT consultancy and services • geo-solutions • political advice • restructuring • corporate governance

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Range of Engineering and Consulting Services Analysis and Conceptual Design

Feasibility Studies • environmental impact and siting studies • economic and technical analyses • masterplans • integrated infrastructure concepts • plant concepts • preliminary planning and conceptual engineering • operation management concepts • IT concepts

Engineering and Contract Award General planning • basic engineering • permit engineering • detail engineering • plant and functional specifications • tendering • bid evaluation • clients engineer • contract award recommendation • contractual negotiations • contract formulation

Implementation Check of drawings • shop acceptances • specialist site management and supervision • coordination of commissioning • final acceptance • documentation • trial operation and warranty support • interface coordination • project steering • general project supervision • health and safety coordination • staff training

Operation Process optimization • environmental, risk and quality management • maintenance scheduling • optimization of deployment • operation, management and environmental information systems • optimization of mine production concepts

Business Consultancy Market analyses • tariff studies • project development • strategy and organization • financial modeling • project financing • project management • lender’s engineering • due diligence • mergers & acquisitions • IT consultancy • sectorial IT solutions

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Consultancy for mining projects

•  Reserve calculation and classification (according to JORC or NI43-101)

•  Geotechnical studies, planning of tailings ponds, CCS sites, dam sites, etc.

•  Technical risk assessment for mining, processing and remediation projects

•  Planning of mining projects including processing and infrastructure

•  Best international practice in mining legislation, mine-taxation and financial guarantees

Environmental consultancy

•  Environmental Impact Assessments and Evaluations

•  Development of mine closure and clean-up concepts

•  Evaluation and geotechnical planning of underground storage of liquid and gaseous substances for the energy-industry (CO2, oil and gas, steam and water)

Due Diligence and Bankable Feasibility Studies

•  Economic evaluations, Cash-Flow-Calculations, Cost-Benefit Analyses

•  Monitoring of technical, environmental and economic processes

Services in the field of Mining

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Remediation of former Tailings Ponds, Romania Construction of a water-impermeable Cover

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Environmental management and remediation concepts for Acid Mine Drainage Project Bor Cu-Mines, Serbia

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Underground Waterdam (> 1000 bar difference) Former Coal Mine, Saar Area, Germany

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Identification of suitable Targets for CO2 Injection into deeper hydrogeological Horizons, Statoil, Norway

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Feasibility Study for Uranium Concessions „mined“ by ISL Technology Shimkent Uranium District, Kazakhstan

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Water Supply Master Plan for the Coastal Region, Montenegro

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Planning of new Desalination Plant, Coloso, Chile

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Harbor, Airfield, Power Station, Camp Facilities, seawater Desalination Plant for Process and Potable Water, Cape Preston, Western Australia

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Water Ponds covered with „Mattresses“ to avoid Evaporation, Mongolia Storage of recycled Process Water from Coal Beneficiation Plant

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Hybrid Plant (PV, wind, diesel generator, national grid, storage facilities) for a Copper Mine in Tanzania

Thank you for your kind attention and interest!

Dr. Bernd Vels

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