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Mine Design™

Better data for smarter, safer, more efficient mines.

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Strength data from

Strength tested in a few dedicated geotech holes and occasional resource core samples.

50+

Times more engineering data than conventional testing

8,000+

Metres of drill core tested

15+

Testing programs delivered

Trusted in the Field

  • Agnico Eagle
  • ALS
  • BHP
  • Creative Destruction Lab
  • Digital Technology Supercluster
  • Freeport-McMoRan
  • Gold Fields
  • Hatch
  • Innovate BC
  • Newmont
  • Oyu Tolgoi
  • Rio Tinto
  • South32
  • Teck
  • Torex Gold
  • University of British Columbia

Measure More. Assume Less.

Mining companies invest heavily in drilling to understand a deposit.

As mining moves deeper and deposits become harder to access, engineering decisions grow more complex, and the cost of getting them wrong increases.

But only a fraction of drill core is tested to understand the rock’s engineering properties, leaving engineers to make assumptions.

Minpraxis reduces the blind spots.

Drill core laid out in wooden core trays

Lab samples

Minpraxis Tester

How it works

Data to the Core

  1. Drill core is extracted from the deposit.

  2. The core is cut lengthwise and passed through the Minpraxis Tester, which generates continuous strength and hardness data along the core, and density for each piece, before it proceeds to assay. No additional drilling, no cross-contamination, and no disruption to the assay process.

  3. Detailed engineering data showing the properties and variability of the rock is delivered for analysis by geology, geotechnical and geometallurgical teams.

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The Results

More Confidence

Make engineering decisions based on a more complete understanding of the deposit.

Fewer Unknowns

Identify changes and variability in the rock before they become operational surprises.

No Surprises

Design mines and processing systems around the realities of the deposit.

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About Minpraxis

Built on Mining Experience

Minpraxis takes its name from mining and praxis. The application of theory in practice.

Led by founder and CEO Stefan Nadolski, the team brings together decades of experience across mining, mineral processing, engineering and technology, turning technical knowledge into better ways to understand the rock beneath every mine.

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