MINING

1. Management Support Services
   • Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management (EPCM)
   • Owner’s Engineer
   • Operational and technical assistance for mining and beneficiation operations
   • Procurement
   • Supervision for construction as well as commissioning and performance testing
2. Risk Management Consulting
   • Commercial risk
   • Operational risk
   • Environmental risk
   • Health and safety risk
   • Risk assessments and health and safety audits for the mining industry.

1. Conceptual Design

   • Conceptual Studies
   • Preparing the Basic and FEED Engineering Documents
   • Project Cost Evaluation
   • Preparing EPC Tender Documents
   • Supervisions of EPC Contractors Activities

2. Basic and Detail Design

   • BASIC Review and Endorsements
   • Detail Design
   • Procure Services
   • Optimization and Value Engineer

3. Open Pit Mine Design, Planning, and Engineering

   • Engineering studies at all stages
   • Strategic planning of economic cut-off grades and production rate analysis
   • Mine design, optimization, and scheduling using software packages such as Whittle, Gemcom, Vulcan, MineSight, Datamine, Surpac, Talpac, Xpac, and Minemax
   • Mining strategy development, implementation, and optimization
   • Operating cost, labour productivity, and manpower requirement estimation
   • Capital expenditure estimation
   • Open pit to underground transition analysis
   • Technical studies compliant with international standards, including scoping and feasibility studies, project reviews, and technical audits
   • Competent person, independent expert, and stock market listing reports
   • Due diligence reviews

4. Underground Mine Design, Planning, and Engineering

   • Engineering studies at all stages
   • Strategic planning of economic cut-off grades and production rate analysis
   • Geotechnical characterization and ground support system design
   • Life-of-mine plan optimization
   • Drill and blast design and fragmentation analysis
   • Ventilation system modelling and design
   • Equipment and manpower requirement estimation
   • Operating and capital cost benchmarking and first principals cost modeling
   • Open pit to underground transition analysis
   • Due diligence reviews
   • Operational reviews and assistance

5. equipment selection & logistics

6. plant & mining equipment design

• Geotechnical mapping and modelling

• Geometallurgical assessment and modelling

• Structural analysis and advanced 3D modelling

• Near-mine geophysics and exploration targeting

• Resource estimation

• Pit and underground mapping

• Grade control system and process design

• Sampling and reconciliation audits

• Site-based structural geology training

• Independent asset valuation at all stages of project development

• Technical studies used for mineral resource and ore reserve reporting and in numerous regulatory and capital market submissions

• Benchmarking for comparative cost-of-production analysis

• Financial modelling for comparative assessments of economic performance

• Independent verification of project value and model audits for due diligence purposes

• Mine design and existing reserve optimization

• Drilling and blasting design and optimization

• Processing facility review and optimization

• Infrastructure assessment and optimization of transportation, equipment, utilities, storage, accommodation, and communications

• Organization structure and technical process review

• Alternative technology assessment

• Change management

• Ore and waste handling evaluation

• Lateral development and shaft sinking rate studies

• Block cave development, construction, and production analysis

• Ventilation and air quality optimization analyses

• Crusher and skipping capacity investigation

• Fleet optimization and truck ramp haulage and traffic analysis

• Safety-significant workplace environment trade-off studies

• Continuous mechanical excavation assessment

• Bin and storage capacity optimization

• People and material logistics studies

• Cut and fill, room and pillar, open stope, and open pit mining analysis

• Mining method selection and mine design, including:

  • Selecting block, panel, incline, or front caving mining methods

  • Planning fixed underground infrastructure to provide a long-term production platform

  • Pre-conditioning stronger rock with hydraulic fracturing and confined blasting to improve fragmentation

  • Increasing cave heights and planning for high production rates

• Geotechnical characterisation to avoid risks associated with poor ground conditions, fragmentation, underestimation of ground support, etc.

• Numerical modelling and model calibration using data from reliable instrumentation

• Draw control optimization

• Risk assessments to balance advantages of increased cave heights with risks of resource sterilization, dilution, drawpoint failure, and extraction level instability

• Economic optimization

1. Ventilation Engineering

• Ventilation surveys for all underground facility types
• Ventilation system modelling, design and review at all project stages
• Underground fire hazard and risk analysis with simulations to optimize mine design, including placement of refuge chambers and emergency egress
• Monitoring system process and network development
• Operational auditing and optimization
• Climatic studies and surveys to identify and mitigate potentially hazardous sub-surface conditions
• Emission reduction strategies
• Troubleshooting of problems with heat, dust, gaseous contaminants, pressure differentials, etc.
• Capital and operation cost estimation

      2.Emission Analysis

• DPM sample collection and program development
• DPM sample laboratory analysis
• DPM exposure baseline establishment
• DPM reduction and regulatory compliance