STRATEGY VALUE OPTIMISATION
Pinnacle finds the mine plan at the top of the achievable envelope — the one that balances competing company goals; NPV, Cash, Mine life, Production and Capital, against real operational constraints. Machine-learning optimisation generates millions of strategic production pathways over the Life of Mine; event-based simulation then stress-tests each pathway against constraints: Haulage factors, Material Handling Systems, Equipment availability, Services, Stockpiles and Mill / Processing plant. The result is a single plan that Operations, Technical Teams and Corporate head office can sign off — with every trade-off made explicit before capital is locked in.
PRODUCT USER INTERFACE - BETA BUILD
A single pinned view of selected case information — the production shape, the balances, and an AI partner that compares against other cases.
Three layers of intelligence — strategic, tactical, and Life-of-Mine — built around a single aligned plan.
Accuracy
Machine-learning optimisation finds the pathways worth backing.
Precision
Event-based simulation proves each plan against operational reality.
On Target
A single Life-of-Mine plan your team can actually deliver.
Conditions today on one axis, expectations tomorrow on the other — four phases of the cycle, four very different definitions of value.
Commodities — and the companies that mine them — sit at different points in the cycle, and the plan has to move with them.
We start with the ‘reference case’, make our way to the ‘Baseline’, and then explore options.
How is the asset actually performing? We review the data, interpret it, and set a reference case drawn from historical performance — no new capital assumed.
Six candidate strategies worth pressure-testing: Downsize (shrink to fit), Rightsize (re-scope for margin), Growth (build out), Blue Sky (unconstrained), Fill the Mill (capacity-led), Cash is King (yield-led).
Set up each pathway for modelling: capabilities, constraints, capital decisions, risk tolerances, and hybrid objectives — agreed before any numbers move.
One source of truth for modelling parameters — costs, productivities, modifying factors, and the ranges we’ll test — attached to every pathway.
Strategic Pathways
Two classes of pathway. Optimise Current Options works the best mix of OP, UG and stockpiles inside today’s bottlenecks. Growth Options commit capital for new capacity and a longer runway.
Life of Mine Baseline
Base Case.
Mid-Sized Projects
Squeeze more juice out of the lemon.
Major Projects
Consider process plant expansions and other infrastructure upgrades.
Regional Exploration
Bring on regional targets to fill in future production.
Exploration satellite targets
Transform the operation into a world-class Cu/Au play.
Tactical simulation tests the field. Event-based simulation then stress-tests each pathway against constraints: Haulage factors, Material Handling Systems, Equipment availability, Services, Stockpiles and Mill / Processing plant. Loop-back analysis feeds results straight back into the pathway set — pruning and fine-tuning, continuously.
Strategic pathways feed in operational fleet data and scenario tests. Loop-back analysis feeds the results right back into the pathway set — pruning and fine-tuning, continuously.
Every node, every flow, every constraint — from pit and underground through stockpiles, processing and supply chain, all the way to market and closure. The full value chain, modelled as one network.
Case analysis
Thousands of machine-generated strategic cases plotted against NPV and capital efficiency. Drill into any case and the cost quadrant tells you how it gets there.
Production profile
Grade, tonnage, schedule source, throughput — every year of the life of mine, surfaced side by side so you can see what each pathway is really asking of the operation.
Financial Performance
In depth analysis of capital and sustaining capital expenditure, unit costs, operating costs by area and performance over time. Key financial performance metrics for executive decision making – NPV, IRR, CapEx, Production, IRR, Capital Efficiency and more.
AI partner
Ask Pinnacle to compare your case against the leaders, explain the gap, and surface the levers that move value — grounded in the same dataset you’re looking at.
Deployments with tier-one miners are pointing to clearer and faster commitments to studies, fewer strategy reruns, and higher confidence at investment committee.
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