Mining & Minerals

OPERATIONAL REALITY

Mining runs on assets, contracts and contractors, rarely on the same picture

A mining operator runs thousands of mobile and fixed assets across remote sites, under long-term OEM service contracts, with a workforce that's mostly contracted. Shutdowns define the year. ESG reporting defines the licence to operate. Most of it is managed in systems that don't talk, which is how margin leaks before anyone notices.

Asset-heavy, remote, and harsh

Conveyors, crushers, mills, draglines and haul trucks, working in conditions that accelerate failure and inflate lifecycle cost.

Contract-driven

MARCs, OEM service agreements, EPCM packages and mineral rights, full of obligations that rarely reach the people delivering against them.

ESG-exposed

Tailings, emissions, water, community and rehabilitation. Board-level scrutiny needs defensible, auditable data rather than a spreadsheet.

HOW ASTERION RUNS MINING

How the platform runs a mine

NexusCore

The Operating Intelligence

Holds the operation together. Watches every pit, plant, contract, shutdown, incident and crew shift, connects what no single team sees, and escalates before slip turns into loss.

LexSphere

Contract Intelligence

MARCs, OEM service agreements, EPCM contracts and offtake agreements parsed for obligations, risk and deviations, with those obligations flowing on to ReliCore, Inspecta and TurnSure.

AssetVault

Asset Lifecycle

One register for mobile fleet, fixed plant, TSFs and linear assets. Criticality scoring drives maintenance priority, and lifecycle data feeds capital planning.

ReliCore

Reliability Engineering

Predictive maintenance on conveyors, crushers, mills, pumps and haul trucks, with failure mode libraries calibrated to mining duty cycles.

TurnSure

Shutdown Assurance

Mill relines, annual shuts and process plant turnarounds, with scope, readiness and execution controlled in one place. A 35% reduction in cost overrun is typical.

Inspecta

Inspection & Integrity

Statutory inspections for boilers, pressure vessels, lifting equipment and TSF integrity, with compliance dashboards per jurisdiction.

SHREQ360

Safety Governance

Incident management, permit-to-work, hazard register and safety competency, holding contractor workforces to the same standard as direct employees.

ESG Beacon

ESG Governance

TSF monitoring, Scope 1-3 emissions, water accounting, community investment and rehabilitation tracking, disclosed against GRI, SASB, TCFD and ICMM.

CrewOptix

Workforce Optimisation

FIFO and DIDO rostering, contractor onboarding, competency tracking and productivity analytics across direct and contracted workforces.

SiteComm

Conversational Layer

Voice and chat across every module: pit-side queries, shift-handover briefings, contractor permits by SMS, control-room incident capture by phone. Tuned for noise, shift patterns and FIFO realities.

MineIQ

Contractor Intelligence & Commercial Assurance

For outsourced load-and-haul and materials handling. Production telemetry independent of the contractor's reporting, and ten invoice controls checking every line against the contract that priced it. Leakage shows up daily rather than at year-end.

SECTOR OUTCOMES

What it's worth

15%+

Maintenance cost reduction

Predictive, criticality-ranked work on fleet and fixed plant.

35%

Shutdown overrun reduction

Mill relines and plant turnarounds delivered on budget and schedule.

Missed statutory inspections

TSF, pressure equipment, lifting, and regulatory obligations never fall through.

ESG source of truth

Tailings, water, emissions and rehabilitation, ready for the board, the auditor and the investor.

STANDARDS & FRAMEWORKS

The frameworks mining is measured against

ISO 55000

Asset Management

ICMM

International Council on Mining & Metals

GISTM

Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management

ISO 14224

Reliability Data

API RP 580/581

Risk-Based Inspection

ISO 45001

Occupational Health & Safety

GRI / SASB / TCFD

Sustainability Disclosure

FIDIC / NEC

EPCM & Service Contracts