Initial State
- • New mining project with low grade of mineral copper
- • USD $3.9 billion initial investment, 110.000 tpd expected production
- • Innovative design is required to optimize the business case
- • Management is willing to apply Flow Partners’ LEAN MINING® program from the beginning and a balanced approach of people, process and technology
Improvement Opportunities
- • Pre-stripping mine operation, executes value stream analysis for 2 years
- • Improvement opportunities identification to increase productivity in hauling and loading
- • In plant construction, value stream analysis is applied to assess the expected performance (as Greenfield)
- • Rock size reduction to primary crusher needed to ensure optimal recovery
- • Plant operation orientation towards variability reduction more than throughput maximization, since performance depends on fine moly copper grade, highly sensitive to variability