The objective of a Mine Benchmarking Study is to compare the cost components and productivity rates of your mining activities, against those at other mining operations, so that you can identify ways to improve productivity and reduce costs. An existing study comparison database includes data from all of the past participants in the study. The comparative analysis proposed herein is very detailed in nature, and measures a mine's relative performance against other mines performing similar activities.
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Micon provides due diligence services fro mine project financing, mergers, and/or acquisitions. Economic analysis and/or valuation of mineral properties and/or mining companies are needed for the independent determination of fair market value and in all levels of feasibility study.
Micon provides you with a full range of expertise to review mining projects including geologists, mine engineers, metallurgists, mineral economic specialists, and environmental and social scientists. Micon's associates include specialists in various disciplines depending on the complexities of the infrastructure of the project.
Micon has recognized expertise in mineral property valuation gained through consulting assignments in all major base and precious metals, the energy minerals (coal and uranium), and a wide range of industrial minerals.
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Independent Environmental and Social Consultant - Micon provides environmental and social services for mine project international financing as part of the Independent Engineer team for due diligence and project monitoring on behalf of the lenders. Assessment of the environmental and social aspects of mining projects includes review of conformance with Equator Principles, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability, applicable IFC Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines, and review of conformance with applicable regulations within the host country, as required.
Feasibility Studies - Micon integrates environmental and social aspects and management into mine project planning during design, construction, operation, closure, and post-closure. Specific areas to be considered in economic studies include liabilities, environmental permitting, financial guarantees for reclamation and closure, stakeholder consultation, controlling and minimizing potential impacts.
Impact Assessment Management - Micon also manages environmental and social impact assessments, mitigation and management planning.
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Members of the professional staff of Micon International have broad experience in advising clients involved in litigation. Micon is experienced in litigation support for cases involving gold, potash, uranium, coal, pumice, and asbestos properties and land and shareholder disputes.
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Micon International provides metallurgical engineering and review services relating to property evaluation, feasibility studies, and operations audits.
The firm's professional staff has experience in precious and base metals, and industrial and energy minerals. We have experience in diverse operating environments from deserts to rainforests, and cold arctic to hot tropical climates. Each environment creates unique challenges to process design and our experience helps identify where these risks lie for project financing and project operation. We work cooperatively to minimize these risks for all stakeholders and maximize recoveries.
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The consultants at Micon International have undertaken mineral market studies on a wide range of industrial and specialty minerals, metals, uranium and coal. Market analyses are conducted to provide a reasoned price forecast for cash flow evaluation of mineral properties and as stand-alone market studies and for the advice of clients.
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Micon International provides mineral resource estimation services to the mineral industry world-wide. Experienced geologists and geostatisticians are available through our Canadian and United Kingdom offices. Micon has experience in the preparation of initial resource estimates and mineral resource models in preparation for feasibility studies and is fully conversant with the mineral resource and reserve reporting codes used internationally (CIM Definitions, JORC Code and others). Micon's staff has the knowledge base for estimation of resources for base, precious, and ferrous metal deposits as well as for industrial and energy minerals.
Micon has expertise in resource estimates of various deposit types including, iron, precious metals, base metals, rare metals, uranium, polymetallics, and PGMs.
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Micon can fulfill your mine planning needs. We are experienced in various mine plan designs including blast hole open stoping, shrinkage stoping, drift and fill, room and pillar, panel caving, open pit, and deep long-wall mining using both track and trackless equipment. Our experience includes management of mine services and backfilling operations, underground and surface project management, mine planning and reserve estimation, production engineering and general mine engineering.
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Meeting Securities Requirements
Micon is fully familiar with the reporting requirements pertaining to reporting issuers under the terms of Canadian National Instrument 43-101. The Instrument requires public disclosure of information to investors in Canada by means of a Technical Report for such items as first time reporting and updates of mineral resource and reserve estimates, upon becoming a first time reporting issuer, filing of a preliminary prospectus, preliminary short form prospectus, information or proxy circular, offering memorandum, rights offering circular, Annual Information Form, a news release or directors circular, a valuation prepared and filed under securities regulation or a take over bid. Micon provided technical advice to the Mining Standards Task Force set up by the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Ontario Securities Commission and whose deliberations resulted in the enactment of National Instrument 43-101.
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Micon International undertakes the preparation and management of project feasibility studies, from early-stage scoping studies and preliminary assessments to full feasibility studies. Management services are also provided to companies preparing in-house studies. Micon has considerable experience conducting due diligence and other reviews of feasibility studies on behalf of lending agencies and major mining companies.
Micon completes economic assessments including sensitivity analyses to metal prices, capital and operating costs. Micon works with clients during the feasibility to identify areas that can be optimized.
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