A practice built around one question.
Whether the numbers an operation runs on are good enough for the decisions taken on them.
Mining and processing operations are measured obsessively and audited hardly at all. A plant produces thousands of numbers a day, and almost every one is used with more confidence than its derivation supports.
The consequences are not dramatic, which is why they persist. A figure carrying four points of uncertainty does not fail. It quietly misinforms a settlement, a trial and a board pack, and every one of those decisions is taken in good faith on a number nobody has audited.
Mission and vision
Mission
To make the numbers behind mining decisions defensible, by measuring how good they actually are and saying so plainly.
Vision
An industry where no capital decision, settlement or public report rests on a number whose uncertainty has never been quantified.
How we work
- Start with the decision. A number is only as good as the use it is put to, so we establish that first.
- Measure what is installed. The equipment as it actually is, not as the drawings describe it.
- Attach an uncertainty to every number. Derived from what we measured, never assumed.
- Report what the evidence supports. Including when the answer is that nothing needs spending.
- Leave the method behind. Every deliverable shows the working, so your own people can repeat it.