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“Value Creation through Optimisation”

MineQuest Consult (Pty) LtdMining Consultancy Services

Company Profile


About MineQuest Consult

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MineQuest Consult (Pty) Ltd

MineQuest Consult’s

MineQuest Consult




was started in 2009 by a team of professionals who have made it their mission to provide leading mining consultancy services and innovative solutions to the minerals industry in Africa.

As a mining consulting company,

number one goal is to provide its clients with practical and sustainable solutions to the various challenges arising in the field of mining.

Today, draws on a team of some of the best people in the industry with vast practical, technical and business experience and expertise.

principal capabilities address three core elements -

, and

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and within these elements, will strive to provide specialist consulting solutions to the exploration, mining and financial service industries.

service offering is delivered with a high level of mining experience, expertise and competence, covering senior management, technical and mining business expertise and a thorough understanding of mineral asset valuation.

mining expertise covers mainly underground mining, and includes commodities from base metals (nickel and copper), to gold, as well as platinum group metals (PGMs). Our consultants and associates have a track record of delivery in terms of quantity, quality, efficiency, cost effectiveness, performance and excellence of work in the various operations, projects and areas that they have been involved in.

Mining Business Optimisation Independent Mining ReviewsTechnical and Economic Evaluation Services

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MineQuest Consult’s vision is to be a leading provider of innovative and practical solutions to the mining and minerals industry, as an independent mining consultancy services company.

MineQuest Consult

MineQuest Consult

believes in:?Trust and transparency?Integrity and honesty?Core focus on our clients and people?Teamwork, ownership and empowerment

At we are passionate about and committed to everything we do.

Our Values

Our Vision

MineQuest Consult’s mission is:?to enhance the integrity of the decision-making process,

taken over the entire mining value chain;

?to promote and enable the use of innovative mining optimisation techniques;

?to provide practical solutions to enhance decision-making; and

?to ultimately satisfy the quest for safe, profitable and sustainable mining.

Our Mission

Our Vision & Values


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The service offering is to provide independent consulting services to its clients and alliance partners in the following fields:


Our Service Offering

þEnterprise Optimisation

þInform Decision-making Process (e.g. Tender Selection, Equipment Selection, Project Ranking)

þRisk and Probabilistic Modelling and Analysis

þMining Simulations

þTrade-off Studies

Mining Business

Optimisation

Independent Mining

Reviews

Technical and

Economic Evaluation

þ Due Diligence Studies

þ Mining Study Reviews

þ Short, Medium and Long Term (LOM and Business) Planning Reviews

þ Competent Persons Reports

þ Project Management Support

þ Mine Design and Lay-out

þ Mine Planning and Scheduling

þ Mineral Asset Valuation

We emphasise on front-end loading

Pre-feasibilityStudies

FeasibilityStudies

OperatingMines

ScopingStudies


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MineQuest ConsultWhittle Consulting

MineQuest Consult's

has recently partnered with , whose integrated approach to Enterprise Optimisation modelling for the mining industry involves a combination of: ?advanced analytical, costing and

operational modelling techniques ?advanced use of Gemcom Whittle software ?Whittle Consulting Prober – B optimisation

software (proprietary) ?efficient data base and data processing

management ?extensive experience in mining optimisation

and business planning challenges

This integrated approach to Enterprise Optimisation is the umbrella process that combines the knowledge and relevant information from all disciplines and areas within the organisation, and is used to develop strategies that identify the best options for value enhancement. The result is an optimised Long Term Plan, Business Plan, Project or Business Case with a significantly improved cash flow profile – thus reducing risk and creating major value add options for the client. The ability to model potential future scenarios and simulate how a responsive organisation can mitigate threats and capitalise on opportunities gives us new insights into the potential of a mining business.

service offering in this field covers such techniques and practices as informing the decision-making process (e.g. tender selection, equipment selection, and project ranking), risk and probabilistic modelling and analysis, mining simulations, as well as trade-off studies. Using these techniques and working together with mining houses, financial institutions and other mining consulting companies, we are able to ensure innovative and practical solutions to various mining challenges, as well as the optimisation of the mining processes throughout the mining value chain.

Mining Business Optimisation


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The team at is able to provide a comprehensive and independent offering with regards to mining reviews. This includes due diligence studies, mining study reviews (from conceptual to feasibility stage), as well as the review of short, medium, and long term (Life of Mine and Business) planning.

We are also able to conduct competent person's reports and our opinions are based on many years of operating and technical experience in the mining industry. Our review work covers a wide range of commodities.

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Independent Mining Reviews

Technical & Economic Evaluations

MineQuest Consult’s technical and economic evaluations offering includes the provision of project management support services, mine design and layout, as well as mine planning and scheduling work.

Our economic evaluation expertise is delivered with a combination of experience covering senior management, technical and financial expertise and a thorough understanding of mineral economics.

We use the latest in 3D modelling and scheduling software as well as powerful mining simulation tools.


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John Guy's career started as a Learner Mining Official with the Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC, AmZim), in Zimbabwe, before studying for an honours degree in Mining Engineering at the Camborne School of Mines in the United Kingdom. On return to Zimbabwe he rose through the operational ranks at the various mines within BNC, reaching the position of Mine Manager at its Madziwa mine. He has also completed various management and technical courses and programmes related to mining.

John Guy has a strong production and management/leadership background in terms of experience, with more than 14 years in an operational role with the AmZim group of mines in Zimbabwe. He also gained practical technical and planning skills, in an operational and long term environment with the AmZim and Konkola Copper Mines in Zambia, having spent more than five years leading the mines’ technical and mineral resource management departments. He also has exposure and a high degree of competence in mine financial and business case modelling, analysis and evaluation with the Anglo Platinum group in South Africa, where he was also involved in the Group's Mine Extraction Strategies, Long Term Planning, Business Planning and Budgeting processes.

John Guy has exposure and a high level of expertise in the development and implementation of technical and operational systems and processes, including the development and implementation of trackless mechanised mining systems, planning systems, performance management, and safety and environmental management systems on large scale massive mines, as well as tabular, narrow reef ore bodies.

John Guy Taylor - Director & Principal Consultant

Our Team of ExpertsThe team at combine excellent academic qualifications, practical experience gained on the mines and a commitment to providing their clients with value adding, long term sustainable solutions to the challenges arising in the field of mining.

In addition, draws on its existing network of associates & strategic alliance partners with specialist skills and knowledge.


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Luke completed an honours degree in mining engineering from Camborne School of Mines in 1984. He did a Masters in Business Leadership with UNISA School of Business Leadership in 1999. He is a registered professional with ECSA and holder of a Mine Managers Certificate.

Luke completed his post-graduate mine training at Shabanie Mine in Zimbabwe where he was exposed to massive underground mining methods such as block caving, sub-level mining and vertical crater retreat mining.

Luke has more than 25 years of experience in hard rock underground and open pit mines. He has extensive open pit and underground mine planning experience in the gold, chrome, and platinum industry. He led the Anglo Platinum team that developed and implemented the MRM and borehole radar system at Rustenburg Platinum Mines.

In 2005, Luke spent a year at Anglo Platinum’s head office in the Strategic Planning Department as Planning Analyst responsible for the Eastern Limb projects and Unki Platinum Project. The experience in strategic planning brought together all the learning and experience in MRM and his mining experience. He also gained experience in financial modelling of mining projects.

In 2006, Luke joined Impala Platinum as the Greenfield's and Brownfield's General Manager: Projects. He was responsible for a project portfolio of over R20 billion. No 20 and 16 Shaft projects were in implementation phase and were both managed through EPCM contractors. He had the opportunity to lead the team during a pre- feasibility study and, after board approval, conducted a full feasibility study with the assistance of an EPCM contractor for the No 17 Shaft project. During this experience, Luke led a multi-discipline team of EPCM personnel, shaft sinking specialists, and internal departmental personnel. On all the projects he had close involvement with the top EPCM and shaft sinking companies – TWP, RSV, Hatch, Shaft Sinkers, and MRC.

When Luke left Implats earlier this year he had gained extensive mining project experience covering study phases, project start-up and ramp-up phases. He also wrote a paper on the technical challenges related to fourth generation shaft mining and presented it at the SAIMM Platinum conference in 2008.

Luke Zindi - Director & Principal Consultant




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Cuthbert Musingwini currently lectures at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he lectures in Mine Financial Valuation, Applied Operations Research in Mineral Resources Management and Decision Making for Mining Investments. He has over 18 years mining engineering experience spread across mine production management and planning, consulting and academia. He is also an associate consultant responsible for mineral asset valuation at Venmyn, a South African advisory consulting company specialising in mineral project valuation and statutory compliance.

Cuthbert is a registered professional mining engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), the Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers (ZwIE), is a member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and a member of the Mining Technical Programmes Committee (TPC), a sub-committee of the SAIMM. He also serves on the SAIMM Publications Committee that is responsible for publishing the Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Cuthbert met the requirements for the award of a PhD on multi-criteria, techno-economic optimisation in planning Bushveld Complex conventional breast mining platinum mines and graduated in May 2010. He has presented papers at international mining conferences and authored/co-authored several peer reviewed journal papers. His research work is internationally recognised as evidenced by the inclusion of part of his published work in a book by authors in Canada and citations on the ISI and SCOPUS citation indexes. His research interests lie in mine financial valuation, operations research and optimisation in mine planning.

Cuthbert Musingwini - Associate




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Physical address:

Postal address:

No. 17 L’Abri 3 Panther RoadBoskruinRandburg2188

PO Box 511 BromhofRandburg2154

Telephone: +27 (0) 11 792 3395

Cellphone: +27 (0) 83 455 7082

Fax: +27 (0) 11 792 3395

E-Mail Address:

Web Address:

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www.minequest.co.za

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