We design what a mine, or a whole portfolio, will become over the next 5, 15 and 25 years, and the technology roadmap to get there. We have built Mine of the Future visions for single sites, entire underground portfolios and individual technical domains, for four of the world’s five largest diversified miners.
Across mining, technology and transformation work tends to share one problem: no agreed destination. Problem statements accumulate at the asset level, investment goes to what can be budgeted this year, and each team improves its own part of the value chain. A great deal of good work gets done, and the operation as a whole barely moves.
A Mine of the Future vision fixes the destination. We have built them for single sites, entire underground portfolios and individual technical domains, for four of the world’s five largest diversified miners. In more than 70 visions and roadmaps, we have seen what separates the ones that get funded from the ones that get shelved.
Source: Stratalis engagement data.
Written for CTOs, heads of technical, innovation and strategy functions, Asset Presidents and Boards. Start anywhere.
Why technology programs in mining stall, and what a shared vision changes for the corporate center and the asset.
02What a vision is, the horizons it connects, and what the visions that get funded have in common.
03What we do, from a single challenged site to an entire underground portfolio.
04How we run the work, from today’s value chain to a funded roadmap, and the choices that size it.
05Enterprise visions, funded domain roadmaps, deep mining innovation and the outcomes they delivered.
06The questions mining leaders ask us most, with further reading and publications.
A vision built to win over investors is a different piece of work from one built to direct a technical team. We build three kinds, and most programs blend two or three.
A defensible narrative of where the company is going, for investors, executives and the workforce.
An asset end-state with a roadmap of options that tells technical teams what to work on next.
Shows how the technology and innovation portfolio delivers corporate strategy and operating targets.
For one Global Top 5 Diversified Miner, our work began with a single mine facing closure and grew, engagement by engagement, into the company’s underground strategy.
More than $1 billion of potential value identified at a mine facing closure. The property stayed in the portfolio for a decade before a successful sale.
Open innovation and techno-economic modeling set the first real vision of what the company’s underground assets could become, with a sequenced roadmap across the portfolio.
Tailings, seismicity, slope stability, hazard removal, automation and processing each received a vision and roadmap of their own, launching dozens of new projects.
Dozens of the world’s leading experts in structured innovation sessions, opening routes to multi-billion-dollar orebody value below the reach of conventional methods.
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Our partners have designed more than 70 technology visions, strategies and roadmaps in mining and have advised the leading miners for 25 years. Our work includes:
Talk to one of our partners about what your operation could become and how to scope the work.
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