Mineral-Processing Operations
Capable teams organised around the operating outcome.
Triad Mining & Logistics assembles and deploys integrated technical and operational teams to run, stabilise, restart or improve selected mineral-processing operations.
Operations support
More than individual personnel
Stable mineral-processing performance depends on the interaction between people, plant condition, feed characteristics, production planning, maintenance, process control, safety, quality and cost.
Triad's outsourced operations model is intended for asset owners requiring more than individual personnel.
We assemble a defined team around the operational requirement and establish the responsibilities, reporting lines, controls and performance measures required for the assignment.
Teams
Operating team capability
Depending on the operation, teams may include:
- Operations managers
- Plant managers
- Metallurgists
- Process engineers
- Production supervisors
- Control-room operators
- Plant operators
- Mechanical maintenance personnel
- Electrical personnel
- Instrumentation and control personnel
- Maintenance planners
- Reliability specialists
- Laboratory personnel
- Quality-control personnel
- SHEQ professionals
- Cost and performance analysts
- Stores personnel
- Procurement coordinators
- Technical administrators
Engagement
Engagement models
- Full outsourced plant operations
- Operations-and-maintenance contracts
- Interim operations management
- Plant restart teams
- Production stabilisation
- Maintenance recovery
- Recovery improvement
- Throughput improvement
- Fixed-term operating support
- Owner-team augmentation
- Build-operate-transfer arrangements
- Performance-linked operating contracts
Focus
Typical operational focus areas
- Safety
- Establish safe work practices, clear responsibilities, reporting and operational discipline.
- Production
- Align feed, plant availability, throughput and operating schedules.
- Metallurgical Performance
- Monitor process conditions, recovery, yield and product quality.
- Maintenance
- Improve planning, preventive maintenance, breakdown response and critical-spares control.
- Cost
- Track labour, consumables, maintenance, utilities and unit operating costs.
- Quality
- Maintain sampling, laboratory, specification and product-release controls.
- Reconciliation
- Improve the recording and reconciliation of feed, production, stockpiles and dispatched product.
- Reporting
- Create practical daily, weekly and monthly operating reports for management and asset owners.
Measures
Potential performance measures
- Tonnes processed
- Throughput
- Plant availability
- Plant utilisation
- Recovery
- Yield
- Product quality
- Unit operating cost
- Downtime
- Maintenance-plan compliance
- Safety performance
- Environmental compliance
- Material reconciliation
- Customer delivery performance
Final measures must be agreed according to the plant, feed, asset condition and operating scope.
Boundary
Boundary with technical secondment
Triad Mining & Logistics provides integrated teams or operating capability for mineral-processing operations.
Where a client requires individual project engineers, project managers, construction professionals, commissioning specialists or owner-team augmentation, the requirement may be supported through Triad Consulting Engineers.
Start with the plant and the operating constraint.
Tell us about the process, current condition, production requirement, team structure and performance challenge.