Article By: Steve Koro, Mining Practice Lead, Ausenco Rylson
The current economic climate of soft commodity prices and increasing costs means that the mining companies that will see their operations survive this current downturn, are the ones that have spent the time and capital to optimise the performance of their current assets so that their plant and equipment will reliably deliver the business plan consistently for the life of the operations.
Over the long term, it is the companies that look past tomorrow, and consider the whole of life of their asset’s performance, and the total cost of ownership, who will weather the storm.
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