Hard rock.
Hard numbers.
Straight answers.
Know the rock before you buy the mine. Engineering-grade due diligence, reserve analysis, mine engineering, and economics optimization for producers, buyers, and lenders. Over 20 years of experience. No junior staff learning on your dollar. One job: find the money — the overpriced deal, the buried cost per ton, the fatal flaw — before it finds you.
Services
Seven service lines, one deliverable underneath all of them: money you didn’t overspend. Every engagement is priced against what it protects — the purchase you didn’t overpay, the dollars-per-ton you stopped leaking, the permit delay you didn’t eat.
Acquisition Due Diligence
Site screening, data-room review, reserve verification, and red-flag reports for mine and mineral-property transactions. Buy-side or sell-side.
LEARN MORE → SR-02Reserve & Resource Estimation
Geologic modeling, drill-hole analysis, cross-sections, and reserve statements prepared to recognized international reporting standards.
LEARN MORE → SR-03Mine Planning & Engineering
Pit and underground design review, stripping and phasing analysis, ventilation, ground control, and drill-and-blast optimization.
LEARN MORE → SR-04Processing & Quality Control
Plant mass-balance studies, comminution and screening analysis, product spec compliance, and materials troubleshooting.
LEARN MORE → SR-05GIS, Land & Permitting
Parcel and ownership mapping, entitlement review, haul-route studies, and technical support for mining and environmental permits.
LEARN MORE → SR-06UAS Survey & Volumetrics
Licensed drone operations for stockpile volumetrics, highwall inspection, and orthomosaic site mapping.
LEARN MORE → SR-07Pit Optimization & Mine Economics
Cutoff and product-mix analysis, life-of-mine scheduling, NPV and cash-flow modeling, stripping and haul optimization, and equipment fleet economics. The answer to the only question that matters: where does this operation make the most money, and what does it cost to get there.
The Vault & The Yard
Approach
Define the question
Every engagement starts with a short scoping call. You get a fixed scope, a fee, and a delivery date in writing before work starts.
Do the work once, correctly
Analysis comes from primary data: core logs, lab results, survey files, and public records. Assumptions are stated, never buried.
Deliver a usable answer
Deliverables are decision documents: short summaries up front, full workings behind them, and live models you can run yourself.
Standards we work to
- SEC S-K 1300 reserve reporting
- JORC / NI 43-101 frameworks
- ASTM & DOT materials specifications
- MSHA Parts 46 / 48 / 56 / 57
- FAA Part 107 UAS operations
- State PE licensure & board rules
Consulting-Grade Tools, Free
The same math and checklists we run on paid engagements — no login, no email wall. Useful is the best advertising.