Bankable Mine Studies — Engineered, Not Estimated
From drillhole to investor-ready financial model in one auditable chain. IMC Mining is the technical partner trusted by the world's major miners for strategic studies, ITRs, feasibility studies and capital raisings.
What We're Working On
Latest updates from IMC Mining — workshops, publications, and project news.
Jun 15, 2026
The Evolution of the ITR — From Legacy Benches to Sovereign Financial Engineering
Independent Technical Reports were once a box-checking exercise run on static spreadsheets. Institutional capital now expects more: Enterprise Financial Engineering, a sovereign network of world-class specialists, and a trusted gatekeeper to tier-1 capital. This is how IMC delivers it.
Jun 14, 2026
Updating a Legacy Feasibility Study — Re-Optimise, Re-Cost, Re-Finance
With copper and gold prices well above the assumptions in many 2012–2016 studies, shelved and marginal projects are economic again. IMC updates legacy feasibility studies end-to-end — a re-optimised Life-of-Mine plan, detailed five-year schedules, a first-principles cost model and a bankable corporate financial model.
Jun 14, 2026
Independent Expert Work for Mining Transactions
IMC Mining provides independent expert technical input for mining transactions — capital raisings, IPOs, lender reviews, acquisitions, divestments and board-level investment decisions — combining independent technical assessment, JORC / NI 43-101 / CRIRSCO-aligned reporting, due diligence, valuation support, mine planning, cost modelling and enterprise financial analysis.
Jun 13, 2026
Mining Expert Witness & Independent Technical Opinion Services
IMC Mining provides independent technical opinions and expert witness support for mining disputes, transactions and formal proceedings, drawing on deep experience in mine planning, optimisation, cost modelling, feasibility studies, ITRs, due diligence, JORC / NI 43-101 reporting and auditable financial modelling.
Jun 12, 2026
From Volume to Value: The Strategic Case for Integrated Mine Planning
How integrated mine planning replaces siloed optimisation with a single value-based framework , using MILP, dynamic cut-off grades, and skin analysis to move beyond undiscounted pit shells toward an NPV-driven plan that connects the pit to the market.
Jun 11, 2026
The Total Study Platform — Real-Time, Secure Client Access to Every Part of the Study
Most consultants hand over a PDF and a spreadsheet at the end. IMC gives clients live, real-time access to the running study — to run their own optimisations, cost runs, financial models, block-model work and AI analysis — inside a secure, isolated sandbox.
Jun 10, 2026
Defensible RPEEE with Stope Optimisation — Underground and Open-Pit
RPEEE is the test every Mineral Resource must satisfy under JORC and NI 43-101 — too often asserted, rarely demonstrated. For underground resources IMC builds the constraining volume from genuine stope optimisation (a mineable-shape / MSO optimiser); for open-pit, from pseudo-flow pit shells — auditable, reproducible, and signed off by a Competent / Qualified Person.
Jun 9, 2026
The Underground Stope Optimiser — Mineable Shape Optimisation From the Block Model
The underground analogue of pit optimisation: IMC’s Mineable Shape Optimiser finds the optimal set of stope shapes from a block model under mining-method and design constraints, feeding RPEEE, scheduling, cost and the financial model.
Jun 6, 2026
Beyond the Spreadsheet — Enterprise Finance Inside the Engineering Loop
Most mining studies treat finance as a spreadsheet bolted on at the end. IMC embeds enterprise finance — debt, tax, dynamic NPV and three full statements — natively inside the engineering loop.
Jun 6, 2026
Recent Project Updates — The Integrated Platform in Action (Anonymised)
Three recent, anonymised projects show IMC’s integrated platform across commodities — a copper–gold porphyry, a copper–cobalt project with by-product credits, and a lateritic nickel direct-shipping-ore operation.
Jun 6, 2026
One Hood, Full Visibility — The Transparent Strategic Spine That Drives Your Tools
IMC owns the transparent strategic spine — drillhole DB and QA/QC, Hochbaum pseudo-flow pit optimisation, haulage simulation fed into cost, and enterprise finance — and refines the inputs to detailed MILP in Minemax while doing the detailed mine design itself, in-house, in Deswik and Vulcan.
Jun 6, 2026
From Block Model to Corporate NPV — One Unbroken, Auditable Chain
IMC delivers a rare, end-to-end chain from truck physics to an audit-ready financial model — per-block haulage cost, through optimisation, scheduling and zero-based MineCost, into a three-statement model exported in the FAST and Modano conventions.
Why Mining Companies Choose IMC Mining and MiningIQ
We pair institutional-grade financial engineering with deep technical depth and a delivery model that actually works.
Enterprise Financial Engineering
Three-statement models with debt, tax and dynamic NPV built into the engineering loop — exported in FAST and Modano conventions for bankable, investor-ready studies and ITRs.
Sovereign, Right-Fit Teams
No fixed bench to keep busy. As prime contractor and signatory we hand-pick the best specialists in the world for your deposit — and manage them — scaling up or down as the project demands.
Strategy, Optimisation & Detailed Design
From strategic mine planning driven by in-house Hochbaum pseudo-flow (HPF) optimisation through to the detailed mine design our own engineers do hands-on in Deswik and Vulcan — plus best-in-class detailed scheduling in Minemax. We take a study from the block model to constructible design; the one thing we don’t do is second staff into operating mines.
Data, Drillholes & Zero-Based Cost
We turn messy drillhole, survey and QA/QC data into decision-ready, auditable resource and reserve datasets — tied to a zero-based cost model refined over two decades, now cloud-based.
Your Secure Study Sandbox
Real-time client access to the live study — run your own optimisations, cost and financial models, block-model work and AI analysis in an isolated, secure sandbox, with end-to-end encrypted file transfer and a project board. Your data is never used to train shared models.
Systems, Not Slide Decks
We deliver working systems and validation pipelines you can own and extend — then train your team. No black boxes, no static PowerPoints.
Results That Matter
Some of the tools that assist us
IMC has Product platforms to provide comprehensive communication channels through the study along with robust financial modelling tools.
MiningIQ
Mine Studies Platform
Throughout the study phase this system provides real-time visibility across the study teams. Connect disparate data sources, build dashboards that actually get used, and enable self-service analytics for your team.
- Intelligent Document Search and closed AI analysis tools
- Integration with Sharepoint
- Linked to Financial Modelling Inputs and Outputs
- Fully Structured Access Control - from director level to project team - data is protected
- Cloud Deployed with Enterprise level security
MineCost
Cost Estimation and Financial Modelling - rapid scenario and risk analysis
Finally understand where the mining costs come from. Activity-based costing that connects operational drivers to financial outcomes with total confidence no messy mistakes have been made in a convoluted spreadsheet
- Activity-based cost allocation
- Operational driver linkage (tonnes, hours)
- Variance analysis & forecasting (bayesian risk analysis built in)
- Scenario Tracking and Comparison build
- Integration with MiningIQ for reporting and tracking
Private AI Assistance tools
Run Inside Your MiningIQ project based on your real data
Deploy AI models based on your data - No data leaves your closed system.
Isolated Sandboxes
We use dedicated, isolated environments with your security controls.
Your Governance, Our Alignment
We work within enterprise level security frameworks.
No Black Boxes
Full documentation, training, and handover. You understand and own what we build.
Ready to wrangle your data and disseminate study outcomes ?
Book a call. We can outline our approach to Risk weighting outcomes and study integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does IMC Mining do?
IMC Mining delivers integrated mining studies from QA/QC through to financial model. We combine mine planning, optimisation, cost modelling, and risk analysis into a single connected workflow, supported by our proprietary MiningIQ and MineCost software platforms.
Where does IMC Mining operate?
We work with mining companies worldwide including Australia, USA, Canada, Chile, Peru, Brazil, New Caledonia, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, and South Africa — supporting projects from scoping studies through to operational budgeting.
How is IMC Mining different from other mining consultancies?
We build and own the software tools we use. This means our studies are fully integrated from block model to boardroom — no disconnected spreadsheets, no manual handoffs, and complete audit trails from geological data to investment decision.