Project Timelines APP

Have you ever wondered how long it takes to develop a mining project and the sequence of activities that management has undertaken?  Some say it takes 18 years to develop a project, but is that true?

The Project Timeline Tracker APP is a collaborative online site where anyone can (a) view some mining project timelines, (b) add new milestone events to an existing project, and (c) create a new project and add its milestone events.   Anyone can track the progress of their favorite project and share it with others.

This platform was originally developed as a way to learn how to use Zite.   It took about 3 hours to build this using the free version, most time spent fine tuning the user interface layout.   Zite is amazing.  So I decided to launch it - its not perfect but works.

The goal of the platform is to illustrate how different projects advance from exploration to studies to construction and finally production.   If you have a project of interest, you can create it and add to the list.

For each project, one can insert multiple milestone events with the event date and a comment.   The event milestone must consist of one of the following categories.   The comment field can be used to provide more detail, especially if using "Other".

• Exploration

• Mineral Resource Estimate

• Preliminary Economic Assessment

• Prefeasibility Study

• Feasibility Study

• Permitting Start

• Permit Approval

• Construction Start

• Commissioning

• Production

• Other (could be a financing, merger, partnership, etc.)

Template:  You can download a blank template (in html format) to help organize your input data.   At this time, all the information must be loaded manually into the Tracker in order to monitor accuracy.   In the future we may configure it to enable a datafile upload.

Caution: Presently these project timelines are open source and can be modified by anyone at anytime.  Hence there is no guarantee on their accuracy.  If there are any issues, please let me know at kjkltd@rogers.com and the project will be deleted.

This Tracker is password protected but open to everyone to maintain transparency and collaboration.  The software development platform (Zite) will not allow unsecured access to their databases.