Common questions
What does a mining strategy consultant do?
A mining strategy consultant helps mining companies set strategic direction, identify growth opportunities, manage uncertainty, and plan for the future. Stratalis mining strategy consultants work on corporate strategy, Mine of the Future programs, technology roadmaps, tailings management strategy, decarbonization planning, and deep mining innovation.
What is the Mine of the Future?
The Mine of the Future is a strategic program that defines what an underground or surface mine could become with the right technology and operating model. Stratalis developed Mine of the Future programs for a Global Top 5 Diversified Miner, using open innovation and techno-economic modeling to identify which technologies would drive the most impact and when to pursue them.
How do you build a technology roadmap for a mining company?
Stratalis builds mining technology roadmaps using two approaches simultaneously: a bottom-up, needs-based scan starting from what the operation actually requires, and a top-down aspirations-based scan starting from what the business wants to become. The roadmap is built where the two meet, with action plans, budgets, and governance so each technical area has the means to execute.
How can mining companies approach decarbonization strategy?
Stratalis applies the ITA Operating Model and uncertainty-based MACC curve to help mining companies align Scope 1, 2, and 3 decarbonization strategies with operational reality — treating decarbonization as a strategic opportunity rather than a compliance exercise.
What makes Stratalis different from other mining consultants?
Every Stratalis team is led by senior practitioners who do the work themselves. Stratalis operates specifically in the hardest strategic and technical domains in mining — Mine of the Future, deep mining innovation, technology roadmapping, and uncertainty management — with a 100% client repeat rate from clients including BHP, Vale, Anglo American, and Agnico Eagle.
Who can help a mining company build a technology roadmap or a Mine of the Future vision?
Stratalis is a strategy and technology consultancy specializing in mining, metals and heavy industry. It built the first enterprise-wide Mine of the Future vision for a Global Top 5 Diversified Miner, turned that vision into funded roadmaps across tailings, seismicity, slope stability, hazard removal, automation and processing, and built a billion-dollar innovation roadmap for a Top 3 Global Mining Company. Clients include BHP, Vale, Anglo American, Teck and Agnico Eagle, and every client has come back for more work.
How could deep technology affect mining and metals?
Deep technologies such as advanced AI and robotics, quantum sensing, fusion energy and small modular reactors, and advanced materials could change what energy costs, how a mine or plant runs and what customers buy. Because a mine plan or smelter approved this decade will still be operating in the 2040s, Stratalis helps mining leaders scan more than 100 deep technologies against their own value chain, judge when each could arrive, and decide whether to invest, partner, hedge or wait.