Fresh Insight – from Tarrant Elkington our General Manager

Fresh Insights are our way of sharing the knowledge and skills our team has built up over many years on site and behind the desk – offering ideas that can help improve decision-making, boost confidence, and support day-to-day work.

Tarrant Elkington’s Fresh Insight is about something that often gets overlooked in pit optimisation:

The Importance of Pit Staging

“Most people focus on final pit selection, but real value is often unlocked by optimising early pit stages. Discounting amplifies the value of early cash flows. In a long-life mine, many factors will change before the final pit is ever mined. Focus on staging to drive NPV.”
– Dr Tarrant Elkington

A great reminder that it’s not just about where you end up – how you get there can make all the difference.

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Get to know Tarrant a little better:

Tarrant has more than 17 years of mine consulting experience specialising in mine optimisation and M&A Due Diligence.
He specialised in mining strategy selection, early stage scoping studies, project management, and providing solutions to unique complex mining problems. Tarrant has been involved in studies in Australia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia; across commodities including precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals and iron ore. He also lead the development of Snowden Optiro’s optimisation software and manages a number of key business functions.
Tarrant has written more than 15 published papers and contributes to blog posts on the Snowden Optiro website.
He has experience working in these commodities: Gold, Silver, Iron Ore, Vanadium, Titanium, Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, Rare Earths, Copper, Graphite, Manganese, Bauxite, Lead, Zinc, Mineral Sands, PGMs, Tantalum, and Uranium.

If you would like to contact Tarrant: contact@snowdenoptiro.com

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Snowden Optiro is a resources consulting and advisory group that provides independent advice, consulting and training to mining and exploration companies, their advisors and investors.

We help mine developers to advance their projects, mining companies to improve their operations and their professionals, and investors to de-risk their investments by the provision of quality advice, training and software in the field of Mineral Resources and Mineral/Ore Reserves.

LINK to Snowden Optiro website