Advisory and engineering
Engineering across the mining value chain.
Surface and underground. Mining expertise, backed by our own simulation platforms.
Capability
What we cover.
Geotechnical
Slope stability, ground support, caveability.
Mine planning and design
Strategic design, sequencing, life-of-mine schedules.
Caving and mass mining
Block cave, sublevel cave, sublevel open stoping.
Materials handling
Passes, conveyors, hoisting, fleet and electrification.
Ventilation and infrastructure
Ventilation, power and services.
Simulation
Whole-system models in GreenLeap and FlowCycle.
Studies and cost
PEA to feasibility, cost and risk.
Hydrogeology
Groundwater, dewatering and site water balance.
Study maturity review
The FISA framework.
An independent maturity review for open pit and underground mining projects, from Concept and PEA through to Feasibility. Every discipline is tested, and every finding is judged against what is normal for the study stage.
Concept and scoping
Is there a project? Are the big choices and the fatal flaws understood?
PEA
Is the case built on the right options, at the right level of definition?
Pre-feasibility
Is one option selected and supported well enough to carry forward?
Feasibility
Is the design ready for an investment decision, cost and schedule included?
How every finding is built
Fact
What the study says or does not say, stated plainly.
Impact
Why it matters to value, risk, schedule or the next stage.
Severity
High, medium or low, rated against the stage, not against a feasibility standard.
Action
What closes the gap, and in which stage it belongs.
Every finding is tied to its source document. No unsourced claims.
Full spectrum of disciplines
Fit for stage
Each finding is rated under-mature, at stage or above stage. More work is always possible. We look for the gaps that change the decision.
Tested both ways
Missing work, and thin work presented as solid.
The seams scored
Studies fail between disciplines. We score how the parts fit together, not only each part.
Delivered as a maturity scorecard, a findings register, an executive workshop and a report. Value-uplift opportunities found along the way are logged separately.
Project examples
Recent work.
~US$600M value added
Strategic design work that added value to a block cave study.
US$300M+ identified
A maturity review that became the basis for a redesign.
Block cave haulage strategy
Four haulage options costed over the life of mine and ranked.
Production system debottlenecked
Underground and surface haulage simulated as one system in GreenLeap.
Contact
Let’s talk.
Tell us where your mining system is losing time or value, and we will show you what it is worth to fix.