
MINE PLANNING
The experienced project teams have the skills and practical mining experience in precious metals, base metals and coal mining required to complete and sign-off as competent persons on mine designs and schedules for studies from Concept to Definitive Feasibility Studies.
The typical activities completed during a mine planning process include:-
- Open-pit optimisations
- Open-pit designs
- Open-pit production scheduling
- Ore blending strategies
- Underground stope optimisations
- Cut-off or paylimit calculations
- Underground mine design
- Access development design and scheduling
- Underground production scheduling
- Mine design review
- Mining strategy review and analysis
- Mineral reserve classification.
We pride ourselves in developing innovative and creative mining solutions defining the optimal extraction strategy for an orebody.
CORPORATE FINANCE
Advice is provided with the purpose to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders. Services include:
- Financial analysis supported by a strong technical team
- Debt and Equity structures advice
- Corporate strategy development and advice
- Turnaround strategy, development and advice
- Strong technical support
- Mergers, Acquisitions or Restructuring advice
- Assistance with financing arrangements
- Advisory role for listing projects
With previous hands-on experience in global investment banking, operational management and technical services provision, Coal Mining Pty Ltd is well equipped to advise on corporate mining transactions.
BUSINESS TURNAROUND
Coal Mining Pty Ltd provides a range of services to financially distressed companies in order to assist them to elect the appropriate intervention required. Coal Mining Pty Ltd also assists in the process to effect the company turnaround. Although Coal Mining Pty Ltd has vast experience in the minerals industry, this service is not limited to the minerals industry only. The service would typically consist of a pre-intervention analysis, followed by either business turnaround or business rescue.
MINERAL ASSET VALUATIONS
Coal Mining Pty Ltd provides comprehensive financial modelling and mineral asset valuation services at all stages of the project life cycle by a competent team of qualified professionals. Valuations are done in compliance with the valuation reporting codes ( SAMVAL, CIMVal and Valmin) in all reporting jurisdictions, in line with general accepted valuation methodologies which include :
- The cost approach, which relies on historical and /or future amounts spent on the mineral asset;
- The market approach, which determines the monetary value per unit of resource of the project, by comparing it with other recent arm’s length transactions; or
- The cash-flow approach, which determines the value of a project based on the ‘value in in use’ principle and requires determination of the present value of future cash flows over the life of the mineral asset.
These valuations normally forms part of :
- Feasibility Studies
- Competent / Qualified Person Reports
- Technical and Financial Due Diligences on mineral projects
- Fairness Options
We supply risk analysis through :
- Monte Carlo simulations to test the robustness of the mineral project
- Scenario analysis
Coal Mining Pty Ltd’s experience stretches over 30 years with a large database to construct :
- Valuation curves used in market comparable valuations
- Detailed Discounted Cash Flow Models
- Integrated Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Income Statement modelling with Financial Ratio Analysis.
RESOURCE ESTIMATION
The Coal Mining Pty Ltd Mineral Resource Estimation (CMRE) team is qualified to conduct Resource Estimations on most commodities including:-
- Precious metals;
- PGMs;
- Base metals;
- Industrial minerals and;
- Coal.
The team stays at the forefront of industry when applying geostatistical techniques to CMRE. The team is very proud of its approach with:-
- strong geological focus ensuring
- best-practice world-class high quality estimates
- conducted in accordance with all the Reporting Codes;
- and undergo rigorous review before release.