Our world-class mining consulting services

At Morningside Consulting and Training Group, we exist to help miners find smarter ways to mine and unearth hidden business value. We help mining leaders evaluate mining opportunities, solve hidden productivity challenges, and improve performance across the mining cycle while our smart technologies, built by mining professionals over 20 years, underpins everything.

Whether you are in need of mining, geology, engineering services, geotechnical advice, or advisory services, our dedicated team of mining experts will help you unearth the most value out of your mine. 

Technical mining solutions

Morningside Consulting and Training Group’s consultants have provided world class technical advice to the mining industry for more than 20 years. From feasibility studies to expert geotechnical audits, when it comes to challenges in mining, chances are we have seen it and have found a smarter, more efficient way to solve it.

Commercial mining outcomes

Morningside Consulting and Training Group Advisory is a specialized team focused on providing exemplary whole-of-mine optimization advice. Working with mining executives from all over the world, Morningside Consulting Advisory bridges what’s happening at the mine face with the decisions that need to be made in the boardroom by using our distinct propriety tools and frameworks.

Every mine has a value life cycle, but its future value is not fixed. The strategic decisions that mine owners make, their ability to extract the value from their data ultimately determines their mine’s performance and the actual return to stakeholders.

The Morningside Consulting Difference 

Unmatched expertise

We see expertise as experience + relevance + reputation + insight + specialist skill.

Unique data sets

We have the world’s most comprehensive data set of independently validated site-level cost and productivity data that our experts have built over decades.

Propriety tools and frameworks

Morningside Consulting Advisory also draws a raft of IP frameworks including Hill of Value, Performance Diagnostics, Predictive Geometallurgy, Machine Learning, Simulation, Value Driver Trees, Cost Engineering, and many more.

Our services include:

• Mining – We help our clients mine smarter. Whether it’s planning a mine or enhancing the productivity of an existing one, our unparalleled mix of operational experience, industry insight, and up-to-date performance data delivers solutions to improve their bottom line.
• Geology – Our experience in most metals and coal helps our clients mine smarter. From nuggety gold deposits to iron ore mineral resource estimation and geological evaluations, our world-renowned expertise helps you hit the mother lode.
• Engineering services – Our multidisciplinary approach helps our clients mine smarter. We earned our reputation as world leaders in backfill engineering by designing and developing some of the first paste fill systems in the world.
• Geotechnical engineering – Our team has extensive mining experience across a range of challenging environments. This includes deep, high-stress underground mines with squeezing ground conditions and mining-induced seismicity, as well as open pit mines with deep slopes in high rainfall or frozen environments.
• Metallurgy – Our practical ability to turn strategy into action helps our clients mine smarter. We will help you with smarter skills by:

• Reviewing existing safety management systems.
• Undertaking metallurgy components of scoping and pre-feasibility studies.
• Designing and managing metallurgical test work programs
• Developing and mass balancing flowsheet options.
• Providing experts and specialists reports for regulatory authorities.
• Conducting due diligence assessments for debt funding, acquisitions, and disposals.
• Providing advice on pyrometallurgical concentrates.
• Pre-feasibility studies – This assessment generally follows the following progression as more data becomes available:

• Concept study – to provide an opportunity to identify the technical and economic potential of an early-stage resource and to justify approval of funding for more detailed studies. 
• Pre-Feasibility study – to collect sufficient information allowing an experienced consultant to assess many opportunities to select one that mitigates all material risks and best satisfies the objectives of the project owner using a variety of metrics. Using data and benchmarks verified from many existing operations, we can quickly assess the confidence level of our planning work for use input to the PFS, allowing selection of the favored operation.
• Feasibility Study – to operate the technical and economic basis for one chosen option at sufficient level of confidence for preliminary regulatory assessment and financial approval to proceed to detailed design and construction.

• Caving – Sub-Level, Block and Panel Caving – Our team has extensive experience covering studies, operations and optimization, technical evaluation, and specialist investigations. Why block, sub-level and panel caving make for smarter mining. This commitment to industry-leading mining practices and outcomes is exemplified across our sub-level caving (SCL), block caving (BC), and panel caving (PC) work. With high-quality, near-surface orebody sources depleted, the industry is turning to underground mining methods. As a result, cave mining alternatives are increasingly economically attractive. However, success requires fastidious planning, management and the exceptional orebody knowledge and analytical skills.
• Predictive Geometallurgy – Everything that happens in a mine depends on the orebody. So, know your orebody better with Morningside Consulting. Geometullurgy has advanced over the last few years. The advancement of orebody mapping techniques and applications of data science and machine learning have headed a new era for mine owners and operations. Practical Applications by Morningside Consulting has not just defined what geometallurgy is, we have been working on what it means in practices for the ability to optimize mine sequencing, make better plant design decisions, improve the stability of operations, and make the right strategic choices. Predictive Geometallurgy is a process that produces a dynamic 3D block model that enables you to understand orebody variability, improve design and scheduling, reduce volatility, improve recoveries, and reduce operating costs.

Recent results

• Helped the team at one global mine in South Africa deliver a 20% increase in ore production.

• Worked with a global mining company to realize operating cost reductions of US$300M on an NPV basis.

• Assisted a multinational mining company reduce costs by 20% at its mine in Tanzania.

• Morningside Consulting’s Hill of Value process helps our clients’ Angola base metal operations unlock near-term mining opportunities and more than US$1.5B in value.

These are just some of the case studies where our experts have been working on with clients.

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