PartnershipScopeApproachValueWhy Avasta
AI strategy and AI delivery for mining

One AI partner forthe whole mining business

Avasta stands beside mining companies for the long term — as the strategic advisor deciding where AI belongs, and as the vendor that builds it and keeps it running. Every function of your organisation, and one industry only.

Let's discuss your ambitionsHow we partner
Across your organisation
  • Strategy & portfolio
  • Exploration & resource
  • Mine planning
  • Operations
  • Processing
  • Supply chain
  • Safety & environment
  • Corporate functions
Two mandates, one partner

Advice and
accountability.

AI programmes usually stall in the handover — one firm writes the strategy, another builds it, and nobody owns the outcome. Avasta holds both mandates, so the recommendation and the working system answer to the same people.

01 — AI Strategy

Your AI partner in the room where strategy is set

We work alongside your executive team to decide what AI should mean for your company — where it creates advantage, where it is a distraction, and in what order it should arrive. That conversation belongs next to the capital plan and the life-of-mine view, not in a side project.

  • Enterprise AI strategy and prioritisation
  • Sequencing tied to capital and planning cycles
  • Build, buy and partner decisions
  • Governance, assurance and board-level reporting
  • Organisational readiness and capability building
  • Continuous adaptation as the technology moves
02 — AI Solutions

And the vendor accountable long after go-live

We build what the strategy calls for and then keep it working. Conditions change, orebodies change, the technology changes — so a system nobody tends quietly stops earning its keep. We remain responsible for everything we put into your business.

  • Solutions designed around your operation
  • Integration with the systems you already run
  • Enterprise-grade security and data governance
  • Adoption support with the teams who use it
  • Ongoing improvement as conditions shift
  • Operation under agreed service commitments
Our scope

All of mining.
Only mining.

We cover the full breadth of a mining company — from the corporate plan to the concentrator, from exploration through to closure obligations. And we serve no other industry, which is why that breadth comes with depth.

  • 01

    Strategy & portfolio

    Where AI belongs in the corporate plan, and how value is claimed across a portfolio of assets.

  • 02

    Exploration & resource

    Better use of geological, geophysical and drilling knowledge in decisions about where to spend next.

  • 03

    Mine planning & scheduling

    Planning that reconciles the long-term view with what the next quarter can realistically deliver.

  • 04

    Mining operations

    Day-to-day production decisions, fleet and equipment productivity, and the flow of material.

  • 05

    Processing & metallurgy

    Recovery, throughput and quality as feed characteristics move underneath the plant.

  • 06

    Asset management

    Reliability and maintenance strategy for equipment that must earn over decades, not quarters.

  • 07

    Supply chain & logistics

    Procurement, inventory, and moving product to port and customer under real constraints.

  • 08

    Safety, environment & closure

    Assurance, monitoring and reporting obligations, including the ones that outlive the mine.

  • 09

    Commercial & finance

    Marketing, offtake, cost intelligence and the analysis behind capital allocation.

  • 10

    People & corporate functions

    Recruitment, training, knowledge retention and the back office that keeps the business running.

What a single-industry partner gives you

Specialisation is not a smaller version of a generalist firm. It changes what we know on day one, and what we are willing to tell you.

We speak your business already

No orientation phase spent explaining grade, dilution, stripping ratios or licence to operate. The conversation starts where it would with a colleague.

Depth compounds across clients

Serving one industry means every engagement makes the next one sharper. A generalist spreads that learning across forty sectors; we concentrate it in yours.

Credible from board to site

The same partner can hold a strategy discussion with your executive committee and be taken seriously by the people running the operation.

We will say no

Because our reputation lives inside one industry, telling you an idea is not worth pursuing costs us less than being wrong in front of your peers.

How we partner

A partnership,
not a project.

One relationship, with no handover between the firm that advised and the firm that delivers. You commit one phase at a time, and every phase leaves you with something you can use.

Phase 01

Understand

We get to know your business properly — the strategy, the assets, the constraints and the ambitions already on the table. We spend time with your executive team and with the people running the operation, because the two views are rarely identical.

What you get
  • A shared picture of where you stand today
  • Opportunities ranked by value and feasibility
  • An honest view of what we advise against
Where the value shows up

Judged in
business terms.

We scope against the measures your board already reviews. Which models and methods get used is our concern to solve — the result is the part that gets reported.

01

Production

More from the assets you already own

Getting closer to the potential of the operation as it stands, before anyone commits capital to expanding it.

02

Cost & capital

A clearer view of what things really cost

Sharper unit economics and better-informed capital allocation, so investment decisions rest on evidence rather than precedent.

03

Reliability

Fewer surprises from critical equipment

Shifting the balance from reacting to failures toward anticipating them, across the assets the business depends on most.

04

Safety & environment

Earlier warning, and a record you can stand behind

Strengthening how risk is seen and how obligations are evidenced — to regulators, communities and your own board.

05

Decision quality

Better decisions, made sooner

Reducing the lag between something changing in the business and the right people understanding what it means.

06

People & knowledge

Expertise that stays when people leave

Retaining hard-won judgement inside the organisation, and giving teams leverage rather than more reporting to do.

Why Avasta

What you cannot
procure elsewhere.

Proprietary technology

Privileged access to a patented AI system

Our clients build on patented AI innovations under development since 2019 — capability that is not generally available on the open market. It gives a mining company accuracy and performance characteristics its peers cannot simply go out and purchase.

In practice, we are not limited to assembling whatever the model vendors shipped this quarter. Where your business needs something the market does not offer, we own the technology to build it.

Multidisciplinary by design

Mining and business specialists working directly alongside AI practitioners. Neither side translates through a middle layer, because that is where industry context gets lost.

Built with your people

Your teams are involved from the first week. Anything they do not trust gets quietly worked around, whatever the business case promised.

A standing obligation

We are engaged for the working life of what we build, so an underperforming system is our liability. That discipline shapes what we recommend in the first place.

Start the conversation

Bring us the problem
you actually care about

A production target you need to hold. A capital decision that keeps getting deferred. An ambition your leadership team has not agreed on yet. Tell us what it is and we will tell you where AI would make a real difference, what it would take, and what we would do first.

Working exclusively with mining companies, worldwide.