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Mining Consulting

Our mining planning group thrives on quickly solving complex problems. We can complete a mine planning study and Ore Reserve for you that will stand up to a rigorous audit, or complete a comprehensive review of your mine plan to identify issues and opportunities.

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  • Strategic planning and mining studies
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  • Technical reviews and audits
  • Technical reports for a range of reporting codes

Mining Consulting

With mining projects moving to lower grade, it is vital that every optimisation opportunity is identified. The mine plan is the centre of the project financial model as it ties together the various inputs and constraints from the mining value chain. An understanding of these inputs and a ruthless focus on the right value drivers allows optimal solutions to be developed to give your project the best chance at success.

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Capabilities

Our global team of engineers have extensive experience in conducting technical studies, audits and providing advice in a diverse range of geological, mineralogical and physical environments. We cover all major reporting codes including JORC, SAMREC and CIM. We are focused on providing you with the best bottom-line outcome possible.


In-house Optimisation Tools

In addition to using commercially available software packages we have also developed custom in-house packages which help generate better mine plans faster.  We continue to innovate constantly developing new tools that benefit you.

Consulting Specialist

Executive Consultant

Allan Earl

Principal Consultant

Matthew Cotterell

Principal Consultant

Frank Blanchfield

Global Manager

Tarrant Elkington

Chris Jones Principal Consultant Snowden
Principal Consultant

Chris Jones

Executive Consultant

Matt Mullins

Executive Consultant

Allan Earl

Allan Earl

Executive Consultant

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Allan is a mining engineer with over 35 years’ experience in underground mine design, planning and operations in Australia and Africa. During this time he has held senior technical and management positions. Since joining Snowden in 1996, he has consulted on a large number of mining projects in several countries. His areas of expertise include mining feasibility studies at all levels, underground mine planning and design, reserve estimation, mine operations management and project management. He has a strong capability in strategic planning and optimisation of underground orebodies.


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Principal Consultant

Matthew Cotterell

Matthew Cotterell

Principal Consultant

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Matthew is a mining engineer with over 20 years mining industry experience. Over this time he has been engaged in numerous projects at all study levels for a wide variety of commodities. These projects involved:

  • pit, stockpile and dump optimisation and practical designs including backfill and in-pit tailings options;
  • cut-off grade optimisation including blended products;
  • tactical and strategic scheduling to balance combinations of maximising net present value, equipment and grade/ore type blends;
  • equipment selection and productivity studies including haul optimisation;
  • contract mining evaluations; and
  • cost estimations.

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Principal Consultant

Frank Blanchfield

Frank Blanchfield

Principal Consultant

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Frank is a mining engineer with more than 25 years surface mining industry experience, with the last ten years in a consulting role. He has a strong analytical skill base with real-time mining data collection systems and mine optimisation, design, cost modelling and scheduling software.

His consulting expertise includes project financial analyses, Competent person sign-offs. His consulting work includes project management for iron ore, gold, bauxite and nickel laterite mining studies at the scoping, feasibility and prefeasibility level, Ore Reserve audits and specialised technical reports (NI 43-101, Chapter 18).


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Global Manager

Tarrant Elkington

Tarrant Elkington

Global Manager

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Tarrant has 13 years of consulting experience; specialising in mining strategy selection and providing solutions to unique and/or complex mine planning problems. This is supported by a PhD in mine optimisation. He has been involved in over 200 studies in Australia, South America, North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia; across precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals and iron ore, and for both open pit and underground mining methods. As Global Manager of Snowden, Tarrant is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Snowden business. Tarrant is passionate about improvement and strategy; to find a better way to do things. His particular strengths are a focus on the global system, and ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple way to a range of stakeholders.


Publications:

  • 2016 Can the Theory of Constraints Guide the Next Wave of Mining Productivity Improvement? Elkington, T. AusIMM Bulletin August 2016
  • 2016 Weathering the Perfect Storm: How Mining Consultants can Survive the Downturn, Elkington, T. AusIMM Bulletin April 2016
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  • 2014 Application of the Theory of Constraints to Strategic and Tactical Mine Planning, Finch, A. and Elkington, T. Strategic Mine Planning Conference 2014
  • 2013 The Use of Geometallurgical Relationships in Process Route Selection and Mine Plan Optimisation for the Dutwa Nickel Project, Elkington, T. Lorenzen, L. and Czerny, C. Geomet 2013
  • 2013 An Automated Approach to Generating Haul Roads, Hill, S., Bates, L. Bates, Cooper, A., Elkington, T. World Mining Congress
  • 2013 Optimising a Combined Open Pit and Underground Strategic Plan, Roberts, B., Elkington, T. van Olden, K., Maulen, M. Mining Technology
  • 2012 Caving Outline Optimisation, Elkington, T., Bates, L., and Richter, O., MassMin Conference 2012
  • 2012 Real Options Value Optimisation, Elkington, T., and Gould, J., Project Evaluation Conference 2012
  • 2012 Strategic Optimisation at Sierra Rutile – a case study in maximising project value, P Myers, T Elkington and S Wonday, Project Evaluation Conference 2012

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Principal Consultant

Chris Jones

Chris Jones

Principal Consultant

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Chris has worked in the mining industry since graduating in 2006. Following his initial training with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in Australia, Chris moved to Snowden Consulting, initially in Australia then in South Africa gaining international mining experience of diverse projects including; Project management and completion of Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies, Independent Technical Reviews and Due Diligence studies for various ore deposits and providing on-site mine planning and mentoring to engineers at underground and open pit operations.

Chris then joined Discovery Metals in Botswana as a Senior Engineer implementing various projects including; Surpac mine planning software and training of Botswanan engineers, full site reporting systems, blast design reviews and the start-up of a new open pit.


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Executive Consultant

Matt Mullins

Matt Mullins

Principal Consultant

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Matt is Executive Consultant at the Snowden Group, a global mining consulting company.

Matt has +35 years experience in most major commodities, across the value chain, and in many countries. He built on a solid background in gold and platinum with stints on the South African Gold Mines, in rock engineering research, as an analyst on the JSE, and in running his own consulting company, to a 16 year career with BHP, and latterly back to independent consulting.

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At BHP Matt’s key achievements were:

  • Led the global geological, mining engineering, geometallurgical and business planning functions
  • Designed and implemented the global Productivity and Business Improvement programme, which to June 2018 had yielded an additional US$14bn of annual free cash flow;
  • Developed the Resource Growth Reviews for each commodity group, which looked at future strategic growth through Greenfields, Brownfields and Acquisition;
  • Designed and led the Group-wide Brownfields Exploration portfolio, which doubled the Group’s resource base in six years;
  • Helped to develop and implement the BHP Capital Investment System, including project and review standards, procedures, guidelines and toolkits,
  • Led ~25 major capital project reviews across multiple commodities and geographies.
  • Was a member of the Chief Operating Officers Council for BHP Southern Africa, where he helped to direct the regional strategic direction of the Company.

Prior to BHP Matt was Mineral Resource Manager for Randgold Resources, based in Mali, was Consulting Geologist (Mines) for Rand Mines, was CEO of a Minerals Consulting Company, a Mining Analyst on the JSE, a Mine Geologist and an Exploration Geologist.

Matt has led or participated in numerous acquisition and divestment studies, across gold, PGM’s, base metals, and bulk minerals.

Matt is a Competent Person/Competent Valuator in most major commodities and has worked on projects and operations throughout the globe.


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