PROJECT OPERATIONS

Challenger to Traditional Mining Models

The commodity boom has transformed the mining industry into a highly profitable global business with exciting growth prospects. As SunMirror expands, we are implementing above-industry standard operating models to maximize the traceability of our global operations. This process is forcing the industry to answer new questions about how to balance the needs of individual sites with broader business objectives like ensuring quality of process and quality of material. The next wave of industry development, with greater scale and broader geographic coverage, will push traditional miners closer to the level at which SunMirror operates.

As the modern mining leader, our experience is that this is not a one-time activity, but a continual process of building global traceability while keeping business units focused on their operations. As legacy miners look to develop their companies to meet future growth opportunities, management teams must plot a course to develop the capabilities of their companies using the various levers at their disposal in the form of operational, management, and leadership processes.

We believe the winners in the next wave of mining development will be those industry players, who like us, successfully master the management of a global, "quality assured" technology-driven mining organization - thereby creating cohesion and synergies that add value beyond the sum of individual assets.