Mine Design Criteria Review

Design criteria are the assumptions every mine plan is built on: annual production rates, equipment and productivities, mill throughput, and the geometric parameters of the design. A change is easy to accommodate early in the planning stages of a project — and expensive to fix once the pit is developed. That is why the key operating assumptions must be examined carefully, early, and with their ramifications fully understood.

• Audit and review of key assumptions: production rates, equipment productivities, mill throughput.
• Geometric design criteria checked against geotechnical recommendations and equipment dimensions.
• Gap analysis between design criteria and as-built performance.

What you get: design criteria you can defend to a reviewer — and plans that operations can physically mine.