Underground Mine Planning

We go where the work is…

Marston routinely performs underground mine planning studies that encompass all aspects associated with the investigation, design, economic analysis and resulting investment decision-making of potential mining projects for all sectors of the mining industry worldwide. 

We manage the information…

Studies are geared to identifying fatal flaws or technical deficiencies in data and approach.  This results in recommendations for advancing a project into the next logical stage based on a cohesive, achievable and dependable result utilizing a team of talented geologists and engineers with a combination of practical operating experience and sound engineering principals. 

Studies are based on the fact that Marston has performed numerous independent evaluations of conceptual, pre-feasibility, and bankable feasibility level work including:

• greenfield and brownfield exploration programs
• permitting
• data management, collection and processing
• geological modeling; mine planning; equipment selection
• costing and economic analysis.  

Marston also routinely assists mining companies and investors in the identification of mine-related problems and the development of reasonable and practical solutions. 

We include excellent support…

Marston relies on a suite of mining and support applications that drive productivity and value in the technological services provided. These include: Minescape, Vulcan, Carlson Mining & Advanced Mining, Autocad, Ventsim, and, various geotechnical programs and ArcGIS.

Marston’s underground mine planning projects may be in support of comprehensive feasibility studies or to assist active mining operations in identifying efficiency improvements for short- and long-range planning including the evaluation and selection of equipment used in the production sequencing and scheduling process.  

We get the results…

Marston’s underground mine planning efforts normally culminate in the development of mining cost estimates based on the production statistics derived from the mine plan.  Results are generally presented in a comprehensive report that may be used internally for board approvals, management decision making, budgetary planning and, if necessary, project financing or as a too-the-point letter outlining recommendations and procedures on how to solve a specific problem.