Our Services

Forward Mining Solutions provides a range of flexible services designed with the key objective to maximise the value delivered by our clients’ projects, operations and resources.

Rather than function as a separate entity, we view ourselves as an extension of your mining business providing solutions-focused services uniquely aligned with our clients’ operations, budgets and short, medium and long-term objectives.

Our multidimensional services include the following

Technical Consulting Services

Project and Study Management

We can lead studies of various sizes and complexities. Our focus is on managing risk to deliver projects on time, within budget and to the quality that our clients expect.
Our capabilities include presenting and communicating study outcomes and project progress to Executive Leadership Teams and Boards of Directors.

Ore Reserves Estimation

We can undertake studies to enable ore reserve estimate, including JORC sign-off as Competent Persons.

Mine Design and Scheduling

We can increase the value of your project or resource by developing or reviewing the mine design and / or schedule.

Business Planning

We can lead elements of the business planning process or cycle to ensure that performance is aligned with company objectives and maximises value. We can also support our clients in developing systems and processes that are right for them. Typical elements that we can lead include:

  • Short Term Planning
  • Strategic and Life of Mine Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Sustainability

 

Other Mining Engineering Services

We can provide technical support to solve most mining engineering and technical challenges that you are facing.

 

Operational Support

Resource management

We can undertake various stages of contractor management for our clients, from tender preparation and negotiation, through engagement, mobilisation, commencement, ongoing contractor management and to completion and demobilisation. Our focus is on maintaining a constructive relationship between our clients and their contractors to ensure superior safety, production and cost results are achieved and that risk is consistently managed. We can also lead your transition from contract mining to owner mining.

Short- and Medium-Term Contracting

We can provide highly capable and experienced mining leaders to fill vacant, newly created, or temporary positions in their structure. This could be to enable a performance turn-around or realignment, to enhance sustained success or to fill temporary critical vacancies. We hold statutory certificates and notices for positions in Queensland, Western Australia, and New South Wales, including:

  • Site Senior Executive Notice for Surface Mines or Quarries (Qld)
  • Site Senior Executive Notice for Underground Mines (Qld)
  • First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency (Qld)
  • First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency (WA)
  • Practicing Certificate Mining Engineering Manager of Underground Mines (NSW)

We provide dependable operational coverage for Supervisors, Foremen, Superintendents, Managers and General Managers

Operational Improvement and Support

Having experience in a range of technical and operational roles across diverse operations, we can help you to identify improvement opportunities and to implement programs to deliver tangible results.

Governance and Enterprise Risk Management

We can provide practical and customized risk management solutions to assist our clients’ to reduce the cost of risk associated with high impact events. We can also review your governance and risk systems and support you to develop them.

Get in touch

Integrated solutions focusing on safety and structure designed to take mining businesses into the future.
Contact Details

ABN 48 655 269 828