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2011 FINANCIAL TIMES GLOBAL 500
(Sector Ranks)
MINING COMPANIES
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Turner & Townsend’s global Mining & Metals
division offers stand alone or fully integrated
services in cost management, project services,
project controls, project and program management,
and advisory management consultancy services.
hilst the typical backdrop to your usual
mining landscape may be more man-made
and mechanical than the natural drama of
an Ansell Adams’ image, and the ‘talent’ may
have a more homely, ruddy appeal than your
archetypal catwalk-strutting waif, the global resources industry
nevertheless offers pictorial fascination for those behind a
camera, as this year’s entries to the annual Snowden photo
competition reveal.
Showcased here in
Minesite
are just a few of the intriguing
frozen moments in time – winning gems from the 2011 contest,
sharing the same exciting sense of artistry as they capture the
visual diversity of mining at different venues around the world.
Over 1,000 entries were received from around the world,
from countries as far and wide as Ukraine, India, Ghana, Italy,
Scotland, Peru, USA and Tasmania. Now in it’s 7th year, the
competition aims to celebrate and promote the positive aspects
of the mining industry by exhibiting the efforts of these
enthusiastic photographers at several events around the world.
“The judging of the Snowden photo competition gets more and
more difficult each year,” said renowned Australian landscape
photographer Richard Woldendorp, “but it is a challenge I really
enjoy. It is not often that you get to see such a variety of cultures,
subjects and locations in a single competition.”
This year’s overall winner was “inspired by the beauty of
the Urubamba salt mine”. Joe Dordo Brnobic’s photograph titled
‘Urubamba salt mine’ consists of thousands of pools filled with
salt-saturated water that filters through salt deposits above the
mine, and was judged the clear winner by the selection panel
led by Richard Woldendorp.
According to Joe, a Canadian sound technician, he was
inspired by the “hard work of the people that work at the mine
and by the fact that they use the same methods that their Inca
ancestors used hundreds of years ago. The mine is also known
by the name “Salinas de Maras” and had been in operation since
pre-Columbian times.”
This hard fought selection process
also delivered four fantastic photo
images as winners of the Black
and White category, Landscape/
General
category,
Equipment/
Machinery category and People and
Culture category.
A special commendation was
also made for the photograph
titled ‘Frank’s bits’, taken by Carol
Maney at a Tasmanian mine site.
According to the photographer,
“Frank has mining stories which
could keep one listening for hours.
Frank has been mining for 59 years.
He started mining at Rosebury Mine
as a 13 year old”. The photograph
embodies a celebration of a life
of mining.
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OVERALL WINNER
'URUBAMBA SALT MINE', PERU, JOE BRNOBIC