Professional Services for the Mining Industry

Mining Services

ANB Mining Ltd. provides a range of mining-related consultancy services, which will be used to develop appropriate solutions for your particular requirement. Should you need assistance with a particular mining challenge, or are looking for a mining specialist to complement your team, contact Andy Birtles using the details below.

Professional Services for your Mining Project

Do you have a proposed or current mining project? ANB Mining Ltd. can provide a professional evaluation of your project. Typical services provided by us include:

  • Feasibility Studies
  • Due Diligence Exercises
  • Operational Improvement
  • Mine Planning and Design
  • Development of Technical Economic Models
  • Conversion of Coal Resources to Coal Reserves

Feasibility Studies

  • Conceptual/scoping study
  • Preliminary feasibility (pre-feasibility) study
  • Feasibility study
ANB Mining Ltd. can determine the mining method and the mining design parameters required to develop a mine plan and evaluate the viability of the project and the project can be compared to other similar projects. ANB Mining Ltd. can provide an economic appraisal and analysis (technical-economic model) of the project and determine the viability of proceeding with the project. 
 
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mining operational review in Staffordshire

Operational Review

  • Reconciliation of production plan with actual performance
  • Productivity improvements
  • Working practices
  • Compilation of codes of practice/working standards

Whether surface or underground mining is being implemented there are always areas for improvement of performance. ANB Mining Ltd. can assist in determining “bottlenecks” or restrictions in the mining operations and suggest solutions for improving productivity and lowering overall cost and expenditure.

Due Diligence Exercises

  • Technical Review
  • Mining Cost Analysis
  • Scenario Evaluation
  • Sensitivity and Project Robustness Analyses
  • Technical-Economic Modeling

ANB Mining Ltd. can assist with the mining-related aspects of due diligence exercises on mining operations, both for private and public companies and for mergers or acquisitions.

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mine planning and design in Staffordshire

Mine Planning and Design

  • Mining method selection
  • Mine design parameter determination
  • Mine design and mine layout
  • Short-term plan (budget plan)
  • Medium-term plan (five-year forecast plan)
  • Long-term plan (Life of mine plan)

ANB Mining Ltd. can determine the mining method and the mining design parameters required for the development of a mine plan (short-term, medium-term, long-term). Project robustness analysis and scenario evaluation can also be undertaken.

Development of Technical Economic Models

  • Production and sales profile
  • Operational costs and capital expenditure
  • Operational cash flow calculations (NPV/IRR)
  • Input to the financial model
  • Familiar with VALMIN, SAMVAL
  • Project robustness analysis
    Sensitivity analysis

ANB Mining Ltd. can provide an economic appraisal and analysis (technical-economic model) of the project and determine the viability of proceeding with the project. Operating (free) cash flow can be calculated and “NPV” and “IRR” calculations can be undertaken. Project robustness analysis, sensitivity analysis and scenario evaluation can also be performed to ascertain the optimum practical solution.

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conversion of coal resources in Staffordshire

Conversion of Coal Resources to Coal Reserves

  • CRIRSCO template of reporting mineral resources and ore/mineral reserves
  • JORC/SAMREC/PERC etc.
  • Canadian national instrument NI43-101

ANB Mining Ltd. can assist companies in countries accepting the CRIRSCO template for the public reporting of mineral resources and mineral/ore reserves and can assist companies finding that they need to declare mineral resources and mineral/ore reserves according to one of the recognised codes in the conversion of mineral resources to mineral/ore reserves.

Get in Contact

ANB Mining Ltd. provides mining-related consulting services globally.  For any mining assistance or inquiries, please get in touch.