Roadmap to the Future Surface Mining Innovation ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
The Future… The Moon Shot… National Congress on Space, Pioneering the Space Frontier, New York, Bantam Books, 1986. ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
Roadmap to the Future… • Simple definition: a plan for how to achieve something. • Takes many familiar forms: • They are descriptive and prescriptive tools providing understanding and stimulating engagement ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
The Surface Mining Workshop…(February 27 and 28, 2018) Canada Mining Innovation Council (CMIC) requested Deloitte to facilitate a collaborative workshop with participants from different surface mining companies in Canada to create a roadmap that identifies grand challenges related to surface mining and plots a pathway to tackle these challenges Participants… Mine RP Barrick Krupp Canada Imperial Oil MMO Kinross Global IO McEwan Mining University of Alberta Suncor CMIC Syncrude Deloitte Teck GMSG The workshop was made possible by a grant from Natural Resources Canada. ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
A Design Approach A two-day workshop was conducted with participants to identify the key challenges, to define the guiding principles and to develop new concepts and solutions for surface mining. • Identify the issues and establish existing design principles and constraints • Establish areas of opportunity and new design principles Objectives • Envision “what might be possible” and develop new concepts and solutions • Create opportunities for future collaborative projects DISCOVER SYNTHESIZE ENVISION CO-CREATE PLAN • Brainstorm the • Brainstorm • New • New solutions Process challenges generalized connections Projects • Integrated experienced in solution areas • New concepts systems design Resourcing surface mining • Define the • Identify the design principles design principles required to that lead to the develop challenges solutions ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
Key Challenges in Surface Mining All the surface mining issues identified during the workshop have been categorize across the following domains Domain Description External Issues related to the community, government and Stakeholders the suppliers Environment Issues related to emissions, water usage and land Industry footprint Issues related to mining industry as a whole Company Issues related to the corporate culture and expectations Operations Issues related to the surface mine - Ore Deposit, Operations, Labor, Energy, and Capital ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
Current design principles used in surface mining today 1 2 3 4 24/7/365 mine Standardized Mine life is Bigger is better – operations processes and designed to Economies of maximize asset equipment at mines maximize return scale lowers cost utilization and and across mines on fixed production reduce cost investments 5 6 7 8 License to operate Critical resources Waste movement Success across requires compliance like labor, energy and processing has each phase of the with minimum social and water are to be minimized as LOM requires a & environmental readily available it erodes returns different focus regulations ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
New design principles can overcome challenges Current Design New Design Principles Principles Bigger is better – Economies Modular, scalable & flexible design and 1 1 of scale lowers cost equipment to increase options over LOM 364/24/7 mine operations maximize Optimize mine plans & schedules to 2 2 asset utilization and production maximize value of mine to stakeholders Standardized processes and equipment Customize processes and equipment 3 3 at mines and across mines reduce cost to optimize value from ore body Mine life is designed to maximize Increase the amount of movable assets 4 4 return on fixed investments to create value from any life of mine Critical resources like labor, energy Minimizing the use of critical resources is a 5 5 and water are readily available key criteria in mine design considerations Waste movement and processing has Invest to eliminate waste early in the value 6 6 to be minimized as it decreases returns chain as and add value to what remains Maximize the value to society & environment License to operate requires compliance with 7 7 minimum social & environmental regulations while achieving required returns Success across each phase of the All decisions has to take into account the 8 8 LOM requires a different focus value of the integrated system over the LOM ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
New Principles must be adopted 1 2 3 4 Customize Modular, scalable Optimize mine plans Increase the and flexible design and schedules to processes and amount of movable and equipment to maximize equipment assets increase options value of the mine to to optimize value to create value from over LOM all stakeholders from ore body any life of mine 5 6 7 8 Invest to eliminate Minimizing the use of Maximize the value to All decisions has to waste as early in the critical resources is a society and take into account the value chain as key criteria in mine environment subject value of the possible and add design to achieving required integrated system value to what considerations returns over the LOM remains ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
Solutions become enablers of new design principles Various solutions become enablers of the proposed new design principles to address the challenges of surface mining in a meaningful way 1 5 2 3 4 Improve ore Integrated mine Selective Alternative Modular body design, Mining hauling mining knowledge planning and technologies scheduling 6 7 8 9 10 Improve Water Integrated Automation Electrification Transact more Treatment & operations & re-newable efficiently Management with resources intelligent work environment ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
Solutions become enablers of new design principles A number of different solutions are required to enable the new guiding principles to successfully address key surface mining challenges Solutions 2. Integrated 6. Integrated 10. Improve 1. Improve ore 4. Alternative 8. Electrification Water mine design, 3. Selective 5. Modular operations & 9. Transact body hauling 7. Automation & renewable Treatment & planning and Mining mining Intelligent more efficiently characterization technologies resources Management scheduling workplace New Design Principles Modular, scalable and flexible design and X X X X X equipment to increase options over LOM Optimize mine plans and schedules to maximize value of the mine to all X X X X X X X X X stakeholders Customize processes and equipment X X X X X X to optimize value from ore body Increase the amount of movable assets to X X X X X X X X X create value from any life of mine Minimizing the use of critical resources is X X X X X X X x a key criteria in mine design considerations Invest to eliminate waste as early in the X X X X X X X value chain as possible and add value to what remains Maximize value to society and the X X X X X environment subject to achieving required returns All decisions has to take into account the X X X x value of the integrated system over the LOM ACR MIAC Research Summit January 31 st 2019
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