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| Results
- Open Pit
Coal Mine |
Context / scope of project :
Mine was suffering from declining coal yields,
coal reserves geographically far from their wash plants,
recent and ongoing high staff and management turnover
and a severe wet season. PIP was introduced to implement
traditional wiring (RARs), the ideas pipeline, design
and implement the mine planning cycle and assist in
integrating the mine plan with the fleet management
system in extraction.
PIP and client achieved:
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Delivered
4 out of 5 months of increased EBIT (average +US$500Kpm
from an average over prior months of - US$2.7Mpm) |
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Increased the
extracted coal to exposed inventory ratio from
72% to 91% through good planning |
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Maintained export
product volumes in the face geological yield decline
of 5% |
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Eliminated the
re-allocations of high margin export coal to low
margin local power station |
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Increased
train volumes by 60% |
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Reduced dragline
cycle times by 5s |
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Achieved mini
pit volumes of 80kt pm from zero |
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Achieved slurry
volumes of 14kt pm |
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$36m worth of
ideas validated as ‘cash flowing’
or ‘locked in’ |
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What we did:
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Value driver trees – where’s the
money? |
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Designed and implemented a complete mine planning
cycle and tool, integrating the planning cycle from annual
to monthly to weekly to daily |
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Implemented Results-Actions-Reviews and integrated them
vertically with mission directed work teams |
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Conducted plant de-bottlenecking exercise and root cause
analysis |
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Implementation of Fleet Management System in extraction |
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Complete Mine sustainability review |
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