Strategic Mine Planning & Design
Our in-house experts provide the following mine planning and design services:
- Alterative open pit optimisation studies and strategic mine planning;
- Open pit to underground transition optimisation;
- Detailed pushback and final pit design;
- Mine infrastructure layout designs;
- Stockpile and waste dump design;
- Production scheduling and ore blending;
- Advanced material destination scheduling;
- Resource to ore reserve statement and classification;
- Contractor tendering documents and tender adjudication;
- Operational readiness;
- Mining reconciliations;
- Full technical mining audits for project financing;
- Project management for mining projects;
- Project risk assessment and analysis; and
- Mine production and support fleet selection and scheduling.
Qubeka uses leading commercial software that was selected on the basis of reputation in the global mining industry, covering the full mine planning cycle as indicated in the figure below, for pit optimisation, mine design, productivity or cost optimisation and production scheduling. We specialise in complete technical audits, covering the full range of mining-related disciplines.
Qubeka specialises in resource to mineral reserve statements and audits. Many clients request technical audits to ensure that resources and reserves have been estimated according to standard mining industry practice (SAMREC, JORC or NI43-101) or to obtain an independent assessment of their estimates for either internal purposes or for third parties, such as financial institutions or other interested mining companies. Qubeka also provides technical inputs for listing purposes on the international stock exchanges.