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| Mining Project Evaluation |
Objective opinions and solutions require an understanding of the underlying components together with the experience and judgement to allocate relevant priority to these issues. Too much focus on the details and you could end up solving the wrong problem. Too much focus on the big picture and you could end up with unwanted surprises. Aditya Coal’s experienced personnel and practical approach give you achievable options, opinions and solutions together with an understanding of the associated risks.
If you are planning a new mine or investment, now you have the opportunity to employ a team of specialists from a single company for fully integrated feasibility studies, due diligence assessments, economic evaluations and risk assessments. We have project leaders who specialize in coordinating and integrating the input from discipline specialists to ensure that you have a thorough appreciation of technical issues within an appropriate business context.
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| Mining Feasibility Studies |
Eliminating fatal flaws; finalising and detailing options
Our goal is to give you the highest confidence in the underlying value of your project, by providing appropriate analyses and interpretations to support your key project decisions and development strategies. We know what works, and which issues constitute opportunities and risks. Our focus is on getting specific project concepts correct at the front end, where it matters.
Most of our team of experienced mining personnel have spent many years on operating mines prior to consulting. This experience helps us offer practical expertise in a wide range of technical services from geology and resources, to tailings and heap leach engineering, through permitting and mine closure. This blend of know-how, together with the innovative application of advanced mining technologies, has led to the wide acceptance of our engineering studies by the mining, banking and investment community internationally.
Our teams are assembled to meet the unique needs of each project. We typically partner with an EPCM company which provides process and infrastructure skills. Our strong relationships with several of these companies enable us to form the partnership best suited to your project’s challenges. Our services consist of the preparation of scoping studies, preliminary feasibility and feasibility studies for both underground and open pit projects.
Being part of the Aditya Coal worldwide group means we have access to many global specialists. We can supplement and complement local expertise with the geological, geotechnical, hydrogeological, mining, metallurgical, mine closure and environmental and social skills of consultants required to match the specific challenges of your project.
- Scoping, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
- Legal tenure assessment
- Mining method analysis and selection
- Production capability assessment
- Production and development scheduling
- Capital and operating cost estimation
- Equipment selection
- Logistics capability assessments
- Engineering and infrastructure design
- Estimation of manpower and management requirements
- Implementation schedule
- Financial analysis modelling and valuation
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| Mining Independent Project Review |
Finding fatal flaws; confirming forecasts
Approach
We can assist you with acquisitions, equity and project financing and IPOs, and can provide the intimate knowledge that you need to produce balanced and focused independent reviews and reports.
Each project has its own characteristics and unique risk areas, which requires the attention of experienced study managers to efficiently allocate and coordinate resources to produce balanced and focused independent reviews and reports.
As an independently owned company with no equity in any project, our impartial advice is widely accepted by the international banking and investment community and a wide range of mining clients. Our experienced consultants are often requested by finance institutions to conduct due diligence audits of ore reserves, mining assessments and environmental considerations for inclusion into prospectuses for stock exchange listings as well as for sale and purchase agreements and valuations. We also act as expert witnesses on mining related litigation issues.
We have been involved with some of the largest mining transactions in the world, including the Katanga mining restructuring, the Harmony/Gold Fields takeover bid, the Kumba Exxaro split, the due diligence of the Noranda/Falconbridge assets, the IPOs of Fresnillo PLC and Fujian Zijin Gold, and the dual listing of Sino Gold on the HKEx.
Because of our size and geographic spread, we can organise and deploy the required multi-disciplinary teams at multiple sites around the world concurrently and at short notice. This not only reduces costs for the client, but also enables rapid progress on several fronts which is often crucial to meet transaction timelines.
We know what it takes for an independent project review to provide assurance, highlight the areas of risk, and provide clients with the necessary real, defensible project information to meet the standards of the investment community.
Services
- Independent technical reports for public disclosure, compliance and IPOs
- Technical reviews for mining finance projects
- Privatisation studies
- Technical reviews for mergers and acquisitions
- Risk assessments
- Technical assessments and valuations
- Due diligence studies
- Litigation work as expert witnesses
- Technical audits
- Competent/qualified person reports
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| Mining Risk Management |
Managing the risk, reaping the rewards
The term “risk” has many meanings in the mining world. The current draft ISO guideline uses the broad definition of risk as “the effect of uncertainty on objectives”, and similarly broad definitions for “risk analysis”, “risk management” and “risk tolerance”. At Aditya Coal we are aware of the broader perspective, but also of the fact that many areas of our practice require expertise with specific risk management tools.
Our technical specialists apply state-of-the-art risk management tools related to their discipline. These tools vary widely. For example, our geotechnical engineers might use a reliability analysis to estimate the likelihood of a slope failure, and our environmental scientists might use an ecological risk assessment to characterise the significance of effects on the environment.
Our ability to apply complex risk tools is modulated by experience and judgment. Our specialists are aware of the weaknesses of overly quantitative risk tools, and work with you to find the simplest approach.
One of our particular strengths is the ability to integrate the methods used by our technical specialists into analyses of overall risks. Our processes help to take the numbers generated by technical specialists and relate them to your broader financial, environmental, community, and health and safety objectives.
Our goal in all cases is to help our clients achieve “risk efficiency”, i.e. a state in which all of the technical and non-technical issues facing an enterprise have been identified, analysed and mitigated to acceptable levels.
- Fault-tree analysis of engineered systems
- Event-tree analysis
- Reliability analysis of earth structures
- Dam safety risk assessments
- Human health and ecological risk assessment
- Failure mode and effect analysis
- Failure mode, effect and criticality analysis
- Technical-economic model risk analysis
- Enterprise risk assessment and management
- Facilitation of risk assessment workshops
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| Mining Data Management |
Approach
Aditya Coal Consulting has a team of professional and technical staff who provide innovative computer-based data integration, management and presentation for a wide range of earth science disciplines. Extensive quantities of data may thereby be made readily accessible and meaningful, providing a basis for clients to make/ review decisions in real time.
Combining spatial technology-oriented skills with available computer technologies, we process and integrate large and varied spatial data sets of environmental, mining, hydrological and geotechnical information. Outputs can be analyzed and compared, allowing for multi-disciplinary decision support and implementation of unique and cost effective solutions.
We have applied these techniques to a variety of earth science projects including the management of tailings dam complexes; site characterization; geological, hydrological and geotechnical exploration, and environmental mapping, assessment, monitoring and remediation.
Services
- Satellite remote sensing
- Geographical information systems
- Integrated information systems
- Integrated information management
- Environmental databasing
- Mapping
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