Performance Associates International, Inc. * Experience

Clients

What do a long client list and history say about a company? They’re a testament to the quality of work, product reliability, ease of partnership, adaptability regardless of the challenges, a drive to perform, and trust for a job well done.

Agnico-Eagle
Air Products and Chemicals
Alamos Gold
Albian Sands Energy
Allied Nevada Gold Corp.
Alumina Partners of Jamaica
Anatolia Minerals
Anglo American Platinum Corporation Ltd.
AngloGold Ashanti
Anglovaal Mining Limited
Apex Silver Mines Corporation
Arcelor Mittal
Barrick Gold Corporation
Beaver Creek Silver Company Inc.
BHP Billiton
CalEnergy Operating Corporation
Cambior
Canadian Bogosu Resources
Carpathian Gold
Cerro Matoso S.A.
Chevron Resources Company
China ENFI Engineering (Ramu Nickel)
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
Climax Molybdenum Company
Codelco
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp.
Cominco Alaska Inc.
Compañía Minera Antamina S.A.
Compañía Minera Inés de Collahuasi S.A.
Consórcio de Alumínio do Maranhão
Crystallex
Cyprus Amax Minerals Company
Diavik Diamond Mines, Inc.
Dragon Mining Sweden AB
Eldorado Gold Corporation
Electra Northwest Resources Ltd.
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Exxon (Monterey Coal Company)
Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc.
FLSmidth Minerals Inc.
FMC Corporation
Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold
Glamis Gold, Inc.
Globestar Mining
Gold Corp.
Goldfields
Highland Valley Copper
Homestake Mining Company
IAMGOLD Corporation
Iberian Minerals
Independence Mining
Ingersoll-Rand
Inland Steel
Intrepid Potash
Ivanhoe Mines
JCI Limited
Kaiser Aluminum
Kaiser Cement
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kinross Gold
Lihir Gold
Lurgi Metallurgie GmbH
Matson Terminals Inc.
Meadow Lake OSB Limited Partnership
METSO
Mid-Continent Resources Inc.
Minera Alumbrera Limited
Minera Escondida Limitada
Minera Hecla S.A. de C.V.
Minera Los Pelambres
Minera Yanacocha S.R.L.
Minorco Lisheen Limited
National Stone, Sand, and Gravel Association
Nescor Minerals
Newcrest Mining Limited
NewGold
Newmont Gold Company
Northwest Gold
Pan American Silver
Pangea Minerals Limited
Pasminco Century
Pegasus Gold Inc.
Phelps Dodge
Placer Development Limited
Puerto Rico Marine Management Inc.
Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations Pty Ltd.
Redpath Limited
Resolute Limited
Retech Services, Inc.
RGC Mineral Sands Inc.
Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Round Mountain Gold Corporation
Roy O. Martin Lumber Company
RTZ (Río Tinto Minera S.A.)
Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc.
Servicios Industriales Peñoles S.A. de C.V.
Shell Canada, Shell Chile
Sierra Rutile Ltd.
Sociedad Contractual Minera El Abra
Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde
SOMINCOR
Sonora Mining Corporation
Southern Peru Copper Corporation
Stillwater Mining Company
Suriname Aluminum Company
Teck-Cominco
Thai Copper Industries Ltd.
The Doe Run Company
Thompson Creek Metals Co.
Tolko Industries Ltd.
Uranium One
US Borax
Vale (Formerly CVRD) and Vale Inco
Voisey's Bay Nickel Company Limited
Voskhod Chrome LLP
Wabush Mines
Xstrata Copper
Yamana Resources
Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM)

Locations

Whether your location is near or far, high or low, hot or cold, Performance Associates can train there. During our many years of training on nearly every continent and in dozens of countries, we have learned to work with a multitude of cultures. Proper training and experience within a culture is critical to success.

Processes

If the system, equipment, or process has been implemented or designed, Performance Associates can create the proper training program to effectively train for that application; no process or piece of equipment is too complex.

Absorption and Packed Towers
Agglomeration
Autoclaves (Pressure Oxidation and Pressure Leaching)
Briquetting
Bayer Alumina Refining Process
Blowers and Compressors
Boilers and Steam Generation
Carbon-in-Pulp/Carbon-in-Leach Gold Recovery
Catalyst Bed Towers
Clarification
Countercurrent Decantation
Crushing and Comminution
Direct Reduction
Electric Furnace Smelting and Slag Cleaning
Electrolytic Refining and Electrowinning
Filters
Flotation
Fluid Bed Reactors
Furnaces (Electric, Induction, Flash, and Plasma)
Gravity Separation
Grinding (SAG/Ball/Rod Mills, Vertimills, Air-Swept Mills)
Kilns and Dryers
Leaching
Magnetic Separation
Merrill-Crowe Recovery
Offgas Handling and Pollution Controls
Open Pit Mining
Oriented Strand Board Production and Processes
Oxygen Production
Pellet Plants
Plywood Production and Processes
Power Generation
Pyrometallurgical Operations and Smelting
Reforming
Reverse Osmosis
Roasting
Size Classifiers
Slurry Pipelines
Solvent Extraction (Copper, Nickel, and Cobalt)
Stripping Towers
Sulfuric Acid Production
Thickening
Toxic Waste Treatment

Technology

Performance Associates strives to stay on the leading edge of technology so we can more easily and competently serve our clients. Our skill sets and tools allow us to build the best training programs, suited to your company and its needs.