Mining Consulting & Advisory Services

Our mining business transformation experts support clients with transformational and sustainable changes across five major business elements: driving revenue growth, reducing operating and supply chain costs, supporting transactions, transforming finance and processes, and optimising people and productivity. We focus on the factors which drive business and ore-body value, in the context of their financial and commercial enablers.

Our mining business transformation solutions include:

• Bankable Life-of-Mine financial modeling
• Mine business case analysis
• Operational readiness
• Performance improvement
• Organisational strategy and corporate governance
• Cash liquidity and working capital management
• Supply chain efficiency
• Capital/debt raising
• Mergers and acquisitions and post-merger integration
• Due diligence (financial, operational and commercial)
• Board advisory and appointments
• Interim management
• Profile and reputation management

We advise on the contractual, technical and commercial issues of construction projects to ensure that every aspect is governed, well-executed, risk-assessed and fully supported from beginning to end. Our team of mining consultants consists of quantity surveyors, engineers, planners and schedulers who have worked in both field and project offices.

Our solutions focus on effectively minimising costs and delays, managing resources, allocating risk and encouraging best practices to ensure the smooth running of a mining project. No project is risk-free. Identifying and mitigating risks, whether in the pre-contract phase or during mine construction, ensures projects can be managed effectively and future problems avoided.

Our services include:

• Change management and control
• Commercial placements
• Contract administration
• Contract compliance reviews
• Procurement
• Program preparation, review and management
• Project controls
• Valuation and measurement

Learn more about our construction advisory services in Australia.

Effective and swift resolution of disputes is essential to helping mining projects stay on track and minimise costs. FTI Consulting has a world-class reputation in dispute resolution, and are recognised as leading experts by Lexology Index. Our consultants integrate seamlessly with legal teams, providing support to clients across the entire dispute life cycle.

We synthesise financial, economic and industry information to help mining companies unravel complexities through each stage of a dispute: determining if a claim is worth pursuing; identifying the correct methodologies for quantifying damages; evaluating economic loss; pinpointing the exact type of expertise, evidence and documentation required; and assisting with e-discovery and use of technology-assisted review. Our team of advisors also has in-depth experience in preparing and evaluating claims, analysing delays and costs, and giving evidence in court and arbitral panels on contractual, delay and quantum matters. Our thorough understanding of the links between damages, causation and liability results in highly defensible expert reports and testimony.

Our services include:

• Claim preparation, evaluation and defence
• Class action disputes
• Cost analysis and auditing
• Delay analysis
• Disruption and loss of productivity assessment
• Expert witness on quantum and delay
• Investor-state or treaty disputes
• Joint venture, shareholder or post-acquisition disputes
• Mine development and expansion disputes

Learn more about our Dispute Advisory services

Economic advisory services are critical through a number of phases of the mining life cycle. Our team have a strong track record in economic forecasting and can assist in a range of matters that require forecasting of commodity prices and the costs of key inputs, including labour, capital goods and consumables. Our team are also experts in seeing the social benefits of mining and processing developments that can assist in negotiations with government.

Our economic advisory services include:

• Economic forecasting
• Economic and financial modelling
• Cost-benefit analysis and business cases
• Transaction advisory
• Litigation and disputes
• Market assessment and due diligence
• Macroeconomic and industry risk assessments
• Economic impact assessments

Managing ESG risks is complex. Mining companies are under increasing pressure from stakeholders to demonstrate they are taking a thoughtful, rigorous and defensible approach to ESG. With the right processes and reporting in place, a robust ESG program can generate significant value for a company, its customers, investors, and business partners. Our ESG team helps companies develop and communicate best-practice sustainability program elements rooted in materiality, stakeholder feedback and meaningful alignment with business priorities.

Our experts provide support with:

• ESG strategy, qualitative mapping and gap analysis
• Materiality assessments
• Sustainability reporting & communications
• Board advisory

Project planning, development and commissioning challenges in a volatile commodity price environment can place producers under serious pressure. This demands a lateral rethink of how the business is planned and run and its capital structure. Resource-driven integrated strategic planning can deliver a major uplift in cashflow and NPV, which can fundamentally improve the business’s restructuring options. Balance Sheet transformation can be driven from such enterprise optimisation.

• Resource-driven, Life-of-Mine Plan-based, balance sheet assessment and debt sizing
• Independent business reviews
• Safe harbour advisory
• Turnaround management
• Performance and profitability improvement
• Secured creditor advisory
• Informal restructuring
• Formal insolvency appointments

Our experts use diverse skills to help mining clients assess risk, ensure regulatory compliance, safeguard data and conduct comprehensive investigations when necessary. We adopt an intelligence-based approach to uncover risks to reputation and operations and apply deep forensic expertise to regulatory, financial or misconduct investigations. Our global, multilingual team responds quickly in-country to safeguard assets and reputation with minimum disruption to the business and recommends controls to prevent recurrences.

We conduct risk assessment, compliance and investigations into:

• Accounting investigations and restatements
• Anti-bribery and corruption advisory
• Employee or agent misconduct, whistleblower and workplace investigations
• Financial crime, fraud, bribery, corruption and conflicts of interest investigations
• Fraud, financial crime and misconduct risk management
• Counter-party and supplier due diligence
• Modern slavery advisory
• Political/security risk advisory

Learn more about our risk and compliance advisory services

Our strategic communications experts provide mining companies with communications advice and support for financial, operational, reputational, sustainability, government and stakeholder needs through all stages of the mining life cycle. We ensure your communication objectives are clearly understood by your stakeholders. Our services include:

• Corporate reputation
• Crisis communications
• ESG strategy and reporting
• Financial transactions
• Internal communications
• Investor relations
• Media relations
• Public and government affairs