New Digital Technologies and Risk Management in Strategic Mine Planning

Content and course objectives

This one-day course showcases a new generation of applied technologies that elevate mine planning, production scheduling, asset valuation, and reserve estimation. It focuses on the simultaneous optimisation of mining complexes—integrated mineral value chains—under uncertainty. This includes variability in material supply (types and grades), modelled through geostatistical simulations, as well as demand and market uncertainty, supporting more effective life-of-mine planning and strategic risk management.

A mining complex, or mineral value chain, integrates multiple pits and/or underground operations with processing pathways, stockpiles, blending options and alternative treatment streams to deliver saleable products to diverse markets.

Simultaneous optimisation aims to generate production schedules across mines and processing streams that maximise overall enterprise value. It also introduces advanced frameworks for reserve estimation and classification.

The course emphasises downstream applications relevant to feasibility, development and planning, alongside financial optimisation of operations—particularly mineral reserve estimation and reporting.

Register for the Strategic Mine Planning Conference 2026 to attend aconference workshop.