Welcome, Stephen Harmer – Senior Consultant
We are delighted to welcome Stephen Harmer to our team as a Senior Consultant in Mining based in our Perth office.
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Snowden Optiro Welcomes Five New Valuable Members
We are delighted to welcome five valuable additions to our ever-growing Snowden Optiro family.
Read MoreLunch, where all the tough problems are solved!
During COVID-19, with so many of us working from home, our Snowden Optiro team finally had a much-needed catch-up over lunch.
Read MoreWelcome Alessandro Silva – Head of Advisory, Americas
We are thrilled to announce the addition of Alessandro H. Medeiros Silva, Geologist and MSc in Geosciences (Geostatistics), to the Snowden Optiro Americas team.
Read MoreMatt Mullins appointed EMEAA Head of Advisory
It is with great pleasure we announce the appointment of Matt Mullins as the EMEAA Head of Advisory, a key component of Snowden Optiro's global growth strategy.
Read MoreWelcome, Stefan Mujdrica – Executive Consultant
We are delighted to announce Stefan Mujdrica has joined our Snowden Optiro team as an Executive Consultant.
Read MoreAnnouncement: Snowden to merge with Optiro to form Snowden Optiro
We are excited to announce that Snowden is merging with Optiro to create the premier mining advisory firm Snowden Optiro after Optiro was acquired by Datamine. Snowden Optiro brings together some of the world’s best mining consultants allowing us to share best-practices, form strong project delivery teams, and bring fresh…
Planning For the Average Is Planning To Be Average – Part 2
Tarrant Elkington General Manager at Snowden In my last article, I talked about the fact that there is a lot of value left on the table by failing to model relationships in your optimisation input parameters. That, by planning for the average,…
Planning For the Average is Planning to be Average – Part 1
Tarrant Elkington General Manager at Snowden In an earlier post I talked about the importance of the block value calculation and how it is the heart (and mind) of mine optimisation. Here is the simple (and brilliant) formula: BV = [(P-S)RG –…
The Most Meaningful Image in Mine Optimisation
Author: Tarrant Elkington, General Manager It has been said that a picture tells a thousand words. I find this is particularly true in technical disciplines. My question for the day is: which image tells the most meaningful story in mine…