Optimization and laboratory services

Get the most out of your entire operation

The stages of processing in a mining operation are interrelated. The performance of one impacts the other. Support is available from short-term solutions aimed at alleviating bottlenecks in one part of the circuit, to conducting full mine-to-concentrate optimization across all or part of the value chain.

Unique know-how and tools to optimize your plant and help you reach your sustainability targets

Expertise

Process engineering experts with over 150 technical papers published

Benchmarking

Extensive database of operational insights from over 500 global projects

Synergy

Products and services that are made to work together seamlessly

Results-oriented

Designing and delivering customized performance-based solutions

Why consider mining process optimization

Why consider optimization?

Optimization can focus on bottlenecks, downstream impact or adapting to market trends and sustainability targets, depending on your goals:

Increase production

Common during market booms, activities are centered on debottlenecking to improve availability, throughput & recovery.

Minimize costs

Whether for one unit or the entire system, activities include reducing energy consumption, chemical cost, water use & adapting to ore types.

Improve stability

Achieving consistent output is key in each stage, the focus is on reducing variability and stabilizing processes across the plant.

Reduce environmental impact

Enabling sustainability initiatives while maximizing productivity & profitability.

How we drive gains across customer operations

We have a global team of industry professionals who provide expert consulting, laboratory services, hardware and software products to the mining industry worldwide.

Our professionals have extensive experience in addressing challenges such as improving recoveries, de-bottlenecking processes, increasing availability, and sustainably optimizing the overall process. Solutions and capabilities can be performed both in-person and remotely and are scalable from a single crushing circuit to an entire mine-to-port study.

As a team, we are dedicated to the optimization of mining practices and downstream processing of valuable minerals. We are focused on providing guidance, analysis and advanced technology to our customers, ensuring they can maximize the economic benefits of the resources they mine.

Our practical experience, onsite skills and in-depth data analysis with modeling capabilities create an overall picture to help you get the most out of your entire operation.

Explore our downstream offering presented here from lab and field studies – to commissioning for specific technologies – to process evaluation and optimization.

While it is critical that each individual process runs efficiently, the best results are achieved when each stage is optimized in the context of the whole operation.

Optimization and laboratory services offering

Drill and blast fragmentation assessment and forecasting

Blast design has a big impact on process efficiency and site safety. We use tailored modeling and ore tracking tools to help you develop the optimal blast designs for your operation, resulting in improved rock fragmentation while maintaining safe and stable slopes in your mine.

Achieve optimum run-of-mine (ROM), improve downstream plant performance and save on overall energy consumption.