Mining & Minerals

Mining projects span long timeframes, from exploration and early planning through funding, execution, ramp-up, and sustaining capital. Enginuity supports mining owners, operators, EPCs, vendors and contractors with practical, buildable engineering across both greenfield and brownfield scopes, with experience in remote and arctic conditions and logistically challenging sites. Our presence has ranged from the Arctic circle, through central America and down to South Africa.

Our decades-long experience has provided us with expertise with extreme remote, logistically challenging, and arctic conditions. Our experiences extend to the following type of operations:

Gold Mining & Processing
Copper Mining & Processing
Quarries (Aggregates, minerals)
Coal Mining and Processing
Oil Sands
Uranium Mining & Processing

Capital Expansions & Greenfields

We support new and expanding operations from early-stage conceptual engineering through detailed design, procurement support, and construction/commissioning assistance, within clear battery limits aligned to your assets and execution plan. Our deliverables typically align to FEL 1-3 maturity and beyond, that integrate directly into PEA, PFS, and FS workstreams led by our clients’ Qualified Persons preparing an NI 43‑101 study, and subsequent project phases through to detail design and construction, with detail knowledge of applicable codes.

Conceptual Engineering
Early state infrastructure scoping
Pre-PEA/PF infrastructure and costing support
Detail Design and Engineering
Permits with Mine Authorities
Project Management Services
Logistics & Procurement Support
Field Engineering

These services can be offered within well defined battery limits of specific assets and systems (See the Mining Systems & Assets listed below)

Sustaining Capital / Asset Reliability

We support operating mines with sustaining capital programs that improve safety, reliability, and throughput, without losing sight of operational constraints, shutdown windows, and constructability. Our team integrates with your operations and maintenance groups to identify the right fixes, define scope, and deliver tender-ready engineering packages.

Asset Condition & Integrity

Visual Inspections & NDE / NDT
Asset tagging and registers
Risk ranking and priority
Rehabilitation & Reinforcement Concepts

Maintenance Engineering

Multi-discipline detailed design and tender-ready packages
Work package definition
Vendor / OEM Integration

Operate & Improve

Brownfield Modifications & upgrades
Plant optimization, debottlenecking, and reliability upgrades
Safety Audits & improvement plans
Energy & Opex improvements

Our expertise in your mining systems and assets

extends to variety of services such as appraisals, design, rehabilitation, and optimization of these assets.

Material Handling & Processing (“Dry Side”)

We support dry-side operations and systems where throughput, reliability, and dust control often drive the most value. Services include design, rehabilitation, and optimization of the following assets

Drill & Blast operations
Infeed & vault systems
Ore Stockpile reclaim
Crushing Plants, screening, and classification
Conveyors, transfer points, bins/hoppers, feeders, and flow optimization
Dust Collection & Mitigation
Dry material storage

Processing & Recovery Systems (“Wet Side”)

Enginuity supports processing and recovery operations by supply of process engineering packages and associated balance of plant. We work from BFD to PFD/P&ID, through to detail design, including mass & energy balances, major equipment specification and sizing, control philosophy, utility integration (power, water, air, steam/heat, fuel), General Arrangements, and Vendor RFQ packages. Our specialties include:

Support process flow selection & mass/energy balance
PFD to P&ID
Slurry Piping
Froth Flotation systems & interfaces
Transport Piping (Process, Power, & Utility)
Vendor Package Support
Utilities integration
Balance of Plant for process (Process Building, HVAC, Utilities, etc.)

Metallurgical test work interpretation, flowsheet selection, and recovery assumptions remain under the mining client’s Qualified Person (QP). We provide the engineering deliverables that are incorporated into QP-led study workstreams as applicable.

Site-Wide Utilities & Distribution

Enginuity provides full engineering and design for the complete Balance‑of‑Plant scope for the following, starting at Concept, PEA, PFS, and FS levels and beyond:

High & Low Voltage Power Distribution
Substations, switchgear, and MCC’s
Instrumentation & Controls
Fuel Storage & Dispensing
Emergency Back up power
Regent & chemical storage / handling
Site grading and drainage
Storm & site-wide water management

Buildings, Camps, and Operational Facilities

We combine building engineering expertise with remote industrial site experience to deliver fit-for-purpose facilities – permanent, modular, or pre-engineered – complete with required utilities and systems regardless of site servicing constraints.

Process buildings (crushing and wet processing spaces requiring ventilation mitigation)
Maintenance and Operations Buildings (Equipment Repair, Tire Shops, Office Administration Facilities, etc.)
Warehouses and laydown yards
Mine camps
Offices & Domestic Accommodation
Building Ventilation, HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Suppression & Mechanical Services
Building Electrical, Instrumentation, and Controls

Geochemical & Assay Lab Facilities

We specialize in the design and procurement of geochemical test facilities, whether operated by the mine owner or by a lab testing contractor. We evaluate construction and procurement methodology (permanent vs modular/portable solutions) based on CAPEX/OPEX trade-offs and operating life requirements, typically in the 5-10 years. Our expertise includes: