Business Improvement Manager, AMC Consultants Pty LtdKate, a mining engineer, has over 23 years experience within the mining industry in open pit and underground operations. Her commodity experience includes open cut iron ore and underground silver/lead zinc, nickel and gold. After graduating, she worked as an underground miner and supervisor before progressing her traditional mining engineer career through technical and production roles to management. She was also elected to her industry professional board, the AusIMM for six years. Kate’s focus at AMC is in online benchmarking for operations where she and her team assist mine sites improve productivity and cost.
Strategies to reduce costs. How mines are using data to drive productivity
Open pit mines today have more technology and data available, the challenge is to effectively use resources to analyse and identify mine productivity improvements. AMC Consultants Pty Ltd has completed more than 100 benchmarking studies worldwide. In the process of gathering cost and productivity data, insights have been gained on how mines are using data to drive productivity. This paper aims to share good practice on using data, what benchmarks operations should be aiming for, where mines are currently sitting, high value areas to target, and how to best prioritise improvement to meet operational goals.