Facilitation for Mining, Minerals, and Heavy Resources
A mine is not a factory. The orebody sets the terms, conditions change as you go deeper, and the equipment is measured in units that only make sense against a specific pit. That is why multi-site mining sessions fail in a particular way: a measure that is obviously right at one operation is obviously wrong at another, and both sites are correct.
Who facilitates strategy and performance sessions for mining operations?
FUSE facilitates for mining and minerals operations, including a shovel performance workshop with Suncor's mining division that converged technical and operational leaders from multiple sites on eight prioritized real-time measures across operations and reliability. The recurring problem in these rooms is not disagreement about the goal — it is that each site has optimized against its own conditions for years, and the differences are real before they are drift.
Where We Have Worked in Mining and Minerals
Our published mining work is the shovel performance workshop with Suncor's mining division, where technical and operational leaders from multiple sites agreed a shared performance framework — five operator measures and three reliability measures, all real-time. That engagement is the clearest example on this site of what multi-site convergence actually requires.
Our wider resources work includes Prairie Lithium in Saskatchewan direct-lithium-extraction, Suncor's integrated energy strategy, and adjacent operations in drilling, pumping, and lime and minerals. Where the decision sits closer to the regulated or utility side of the sector, the energy and utilities page covers it.
Real Local Adaptation Versus Drift Nobody Chose
When several operations do the same thing differently, some of that difference is genuine adaptation to a pit, a haul profile, or an ore characteristic, and some is drift that accumulated because nobody had reason to reconcile it. Sessions that treat all variation as waste alienate the operations that had good reasons; sessions that treat all variation as legitimate produce no shared measure at all.
We design to separate the two explicitly, before any measure is proposed. Sites describe their conditions and constraints first, on their own terms and in writing. Only then does the group work out which differences must persist and which were never chosen. That sequence is what makes the resulting framework something sites will actually report against rather than work around.
Sessions We Facilitate
- Multi-site operational performance and shared-measure definition
- Mine planning and capital sequencing working sessions
- Reliability, maintenance, and availability alignment across operations
- Strategy and portfolio sessions for mining and minerals divisions
- Cross-functional alignment across operations, maintenance, processing, and technical services
- Post-implementation and turnaround reviews focused on learning rather than blame
- Leadership offsites for site and divisional management
- Indigenous partnership, community, and stakeholder engagement design
Shift Rosters, Camps, and Who Is Actually in the Room
A mine runs continuously and a good proportion of the people who matter are on a rotation, at camp, or on days off during any given week. A session scheduled without regard to that either excludes the operational voice or brings people in on their break, and both are worse than waiting. We design around the roster, including repeating a session across crews when the operational input genuinely matters.
We are also careful about the boundary between a facilitated business session and a safety or incident process. Where the conversation moves toward a specific occurrence, we name that and hand it back to the process that owns it.
How FUSE Scopes and Prices This Work
FUSE provides a fixed-scope proposal after a discovery conversation. We do not publish a made-up day rate because two sessions of the same duration can require very different discovery, design, facilitation, and follow-through. The proposal separates our professional work from optional venue, travel, production, or specialist costs so procurement teams can see exactly what they are buying.
What changes the scope
- The decision or outcome the group must produce
- Participant count, stakeholder complexity, and accessibility needs
- Discovery interviews, document review, and custom design required
- Session length, format, location, and number of facilitators
- Decision records, synthesis, coaching, or implementation follow-through
What our proposal includes
- A named engagement lead and agreed statement of outcomes
- Session architecture, agenda, exercises, and facilitator preparation
- Professional facilitation in the agreed in-person, virtual, or hybrid format
- A written record of decisions, owners, and next steps when included in scope
- Clear assumptions, exclusions, payment terms, and change-control terms
Relevant FUSE Work
These are published first-party engagement records. Each case describes the client context, session design, and the outcomes FUSE was permitted to share.
Operational Performance Workshop, Mining Division
Technical and operational leaders from multiple sites agreed a shared performance framework, converging on eight prioritized real-time measures across operations and reliability.
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Read the case studyFrequently Asked Questions
Do you need mining expertise to facilitate?
Enough to design a credible agenda and use the terminology correctly. Your technical services group holds the expertise, and a facilitator who pretends otherwise in a room of mining engineers loses it immediately.
How do you get several sites to agree on one measure?
By separating genuine local adaptation from drift nobody chose, and doing that before any measure is proposed. Sites describe their conditions first, in writing and on their own terms. Skipping that step is why most shared-measure exercises produce a framework people work around.
Can you work around a rotation?
Yes, including repeating a session across crews. A session that brings people in on their days off buys resentment, and one that excludes the operational voice produces a framework that does not survive contact with the pit.
Do you facilitate Indigenous and community engagement?
We design and facilitate engagement sessions. We do not represent the company's position, and we do not speak for any community — where a process requires Indigenous-led facilitation, we will say so rather than take the work.
Is this different from your energy and utilities work?
It overlaps. The regulated and utility side sits on the energy and utilities page; this page is for the operations where the orebody rather than a regulator sets the binding constraint.
Get Sites Reporting Against the Same Measure
Tell us how many operations are involved, what they currently disagree about, and which differences are genuinely about the ground.
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