The Mineral Corporation is a leading senior advisor to the African and International minerals business, providing a unique combination of technical and financial skills and experience in mineral exploration, mine development, mine optimization and value creation across a diverse range of commodities and geographies, and for a diverse range of African and International minerals industry clients. Linked capabilities in exploration, mining, evaluation and statutory compliance provide solutions to minimize the investment, development and operational risks across the project development-stage spectrum.
Services
Evaluation:
- Prospecting/Mining Rights
- Ore Body Modelling
- Mineral Resource Estimation (various codes)
- Metal Accounting
- Assay Quality Control & Assessment
- Assessment of Modifying Factors and Mineral Reserve Estimations
- Reverse Engineering of Drilling/Sampling Grids to Define Optimum Spacings
- Competent Person's Reports
- JSE - South Africa
- AIM - London
- Canadian Bourses
- ASX - Australia
Exploration:
- Geology (with particular emphasis on economic applications)
- Exploration strategic planning and management
- Remote sensing
- Laboratory QC, procedures and reconciliations
- Mining engineering
- Mine design and planning
- Environmental
- Metallurgy and process engineering
- Evaluation
- Mineral resource and reserve estimations
- Geographic Information Systems
- Ore body modelling
- Geochemical surveys
- Geophysical projects
- Engineering geology
- Database management
- Financial modelling
- Legal compliance with mining codes and regulations
- Project management/co-ordination
Compliance:
Prospecting Right Applications and Renewals; Mining Right Applications
including Social and Labour Plans and Environmental Management Plans; Interested and Affected Party Consultation; SEAT Reports; and Social Mine Closure Plans.
Mining:
Mining Engineering expertise in the following:
- Scoping Studies
- Order of Magnitude Studies
- Pre-feasibility Studies
- Feasibility Studies
- Bankable Feasibility Studies
- Trade-off Studies
- Operational Audits
- Legal Compliance Audits
- Mining Risk Audits
- Due Diligences
- Competent Person's Reports
- Financial Evaluations
- Project Management
Specific Mining Engineering capabilities in:
- Resource Exploitation Strategies and Designs
- Resource Access Strategies and Designs
- Mine Design and Planning
- Resource to Reserves Conversions
- Ore Reserve Statements
- Project Planning and Scheduling
- Production Tonnage Delivered, Build-ups and Steady State Profiles
- Grade Models
- Head Grades / Metal / Mineral Content Delivered
- Operating Cost Models
- Pay Limits
- Project Capital Costs
- Infrastructural Costs
- Ongoing Capital Costs
- Manning Requirements
- Benchmarking
GIS
The Mineral Corporation employs the latest technology, high-quality data, leaders in their fields of expertise, and industry standard protocols for the management of its GIS. At The Mineral Corporation GIS is core to the running of the business, used in more than 80% of all projects undertaken and frequently adopted by our clients for use in their own businesses to assist their decision making and improve efficiency and/or productivity.
