Osara Mining Solutions
Company Introduction
Focused on Value Creation in Sustainable Mining – Complete Mining Life Cycle
A century of true impact As engineering consultants and trusted advisors, we OSARA MINING SOLUTIONS co-create an engineered impact that enables environments, communities, and economies to thrive. Few others can match our local capacity, long-standing presence, and understanding of the challenges faced to operate successfully across various regions. In the past 60 years, we’ve formed a relationship with Africa, the Middle East, and their people. While their problems and challenges have defeated many, we’ve seen these giants at its best.
Our ongoing commitment to co-create an impact makes us the perfect partner to those less familiar with working in these regions. We are experienced in complex international projects, and our global design centres allow us to bring world-class solutions to our clients.
As a private management-owned company, our commitment is true, and we have vested interest in our clients’ success. Our strong relationships allow us to connect the right expertise, processes and resources to match clients’ needs and bring stakeholders who have shared interests together.
We blend the old with the new. We have moved beyond traditional engineering and work collaboratively to integrate technical and creative thinking. This process of co- creation allows us to unearth new opportunities with our clients and partners.
Osara’s broad collective of in-house, industry-recognised engineering consultants and trusted advisors provides seamless and integrated delivery. This unique ability to offer scaled engagement allows Osara Mining Solutions to solve complex challenges more efficiently. Grounded in digital engineering, we continuously deliver better results
Our Approach
Co-create
Complex problems require collaborative solutions
We do not assume to know all the answers. The different perspectives needed to identify the real issues and problems we are asked to solve, don’t reside in boardrooms or blueprints. Co-creation opens our problem-solving process to a host of voices, often different from our own. We commit to spending enough time in the worlds of our clients and end-users to truly understand the impact we’re being asked to make. We connect clients, stakeholders, and partners with shared interests across the globe to co-create new opportunities. It is this commitment to truly add value, that has earned us the trust of our clients.
Engineered
The intentional, skillful and artful approach that drives us beyond traditional engineering.
Engineered solutions blend the old and the new, reframing technical expertise for an ever-changing world where you continuously have to innovate to deliver better results.
Our technical eminence, accrued over decades, is now complemented by digital technology to help us solve problems, where human ability alone is not enough. What took days, now takes moments. We are passionate about the new, the modern, the smart.
Today, we integrate technical and creative thinking. We employ design thinkers to help us explore problems deeper. We deliberately invite different voices to the table. It’s how we expand our creative capacity to engineer solutions for impactful, lasting change.
In the past, engineering focused mainly on the design and construction of assets. At Osara, we connect assets to strategy for better decision making. We see better results when it’s the designer of the assets who advises clients how to plan, operate, optimise, and repurpose those assets.
Impact
The deliberate and shared value we create for the economies, environments, and communities we serve.
Impact is hard-won. The best social and environmental performances need to be underpinned by a strong financial performance. True sustainability requires the three to be integrally linked. When developing solutions, we always consider the impact on the environment and communities, and we consciously deliver outcomes that help clients stay and thrive in business.
We craft authentic local solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems. What works globally, does not always translate into contextually relevant answers. That’s why our impact matters
Focused on:
- Bankable feasibility studies
- Independent technical reports
- Engineering & infrastructure design
- Outsourced technical services
- Training and technical skills transfer
- Project and execution contract management
- Build and operate mining infrastructure
- Open pit and dredge mining contracting
- Underground LHOS contracting
- Integration of mining technical systems
- We deliver independent advisory, technical systems integration and operational contract mining services, making us your ideal technical and execution partner.
- Our technical mining engineering approach, combined with a strong industry experience allows for operational excellence, cost optimisation and continuous improvement.
- Our advisory businesses are level 2 BBBEE contributors, committed to transparent and effective transformation within the industry, in partnership with our clients and technical partners
Our approach We are committed to:
- Safety
- Risk mitigation
- Regulatory compliance
- Technical excellence and experience in mining
- Transparent engagement and reporting
- Developing innovative technology and cost-effective engineering solutions
- Enhanced productivity and profitability
- Providing local, on-the ground sector experts
- Driving skills development and job creation
- We service the industry’s demand for holistic, integrated mining systems that enhance efficiencies, whilst significantly decreasing costs. We do this by enabling physically separate but standard mining systems to function collaboratively.
- Operational al trans from pit to market
- Delivers a platform for operational optimisation
- Provides validated, near-real-time production performance business intelligence
- Drives multi-disciplinary collaboration across the value chain
- Drives digital effectiveness arency
- Industry viewpoints have shifted – it is no longer good enough to “sell what we mine”. Today we have to”mine what we sell”. Digital integration of existing client systems to generate business intelligence across the mining value chain
- A unified product suite that is able to address our clients’ technical requirements
- A reduction in the project risk and complexity through bespoke solutions
- Accurate and transparent execution, line management and executive reporting
- An effective implementation platform for continuous improvement initiatives
- Exceptional teams with in-depth experience and understanding of mining and the integration of technical software systems
- We have in-depth knowledge of the solutions available from the major industry software providers and are capable of implementing and integrating industry relevant products.
Our Scope Of Services
•Project Management:
– Project Management & Administration
– Construction Management
– Project Engineering
– Owners Engineering
• Project Services:
– Project Management Office
– Planning
– Cost Control
– Procurement
– SHERQ
– Expediting
– Quantity Surveying
– Estimating
– Contract Management
• Engineering and Design:
– Mining – Geology
– Mechanical
– Civil / Structural
– Electrical
– Control & Instrumentation
– Industrial
• Operations Management:
– Operations Strategy
– Ops & Business Planning
– Business Turnaround
– Operational Readiness
– Due Diligence
Expertise and Experience
• Extensive experience in anthracite, chrome, coal, cobalt, copper, gold, diamonds, lead, zinc, nickel, iron ore, manganese, platinum group metals, porphyry systems and potash.
• Expertise of key staff members:
– Design, planning and optimisation of underground massive mining methods.
– Design, planning and optimisation of underground narrow tabular mining methods.
– Shaft sinking all rock types and applicable technology
– Raise boring technology
– Design, planning and optimisation of open pit mining methods.
• Specialised expertise of key staff members:
– Vertical shaft auditing, design and construction;
– Decline shaft design and construction;
– Services and infrastructure design; and
– Project Management from Feasibility through to Commissioning
