The Future of Project Evaluation & Studies 

Streamline your scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies with our rapid project modelling software designed to meet your unique needs.

The Challenge

Junior and mid-tier mining companies face a unique challenge: undertaking rigorous project evaluation with limited resources. Current methodologies are time-consuming and costly. 

ValMax Modeller offers a rapid and cost-effective solution to project evaluations and studies.

The ValMax Solution

• Rapid flowsheet modelling and cost-benefit tradeoff studies allow project optimisation based on client-selected metrics:

  • • Compress the delivery of your study by up to 70%

    • Explore multiple flowsheet options guided by objective financial metrics such as project NPV, ROI or CAPEX

    • Model testwork results before committing to lengthy and expensive programmes that lock you into one process pathway.

• A cost database of 40 years of completed projects, coupled with current industry rates:

  • • Generate realistic, benchmarked CAPEX and OPEX estimates early in project development (scoping or concept study level) for multiple flowsheets

    • Quantify the non-process infrastructure (NPI) costs for your project (including power, water and accommodation costs)

    • Understand the project execution schedule and benchmark it against our database of projects.

• Final costings and study reports generated programmatically from a single integrated project model (SSOT - Single Source of Truth)

  • • Backload the final study deliverables and reporting to allow your project team the maximum time to develop creative and innovative solutions

    • Improved quality and guaranteed internal consistency of deliverables leads to increased project financier and investor confidence

    • Rapidly revive and update the business case for projects on hiatus.

Sample ValMax Outputs

• Full project financials, including:

  • • NPV, IRR, MIRR, ROI, payback

    • plus bespoke project metrics

• AACE-compliant capital cost (CAPEX) estimates

• Operating cost estimates (OPEX) to AusIMM guidelines

• ESG metrics, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reporting

• Automated scoping/concept, pre-feasibility and feasibility study reports compliant with JORC, NI-43101, and AusIMM guidelines.

ValMax Benefits

• Typically, 60 to 70% cheaper and delivered in a third of the time of traditional study delivery models

• Optimise your project for your chosen financial metrics (including NPV, CAPEX, OPEX)

• Increase the probability of delivering a viable and successful study whilst simultaneously de-risking the overall project 

• Explore multiple flowsheet options and project configurations without the worry of late study delivery

• Focus on generating creative and innovative solutions rather than paperwork

• Higher-quality and internally consistent study deliverables leading to increased project financier and investor confidence

• Project costings can be automatically updated if the project is paused and restarted.

ValMax Pricing Model

Our pricing model is split into two distinct phases:

• Phase I - Flowsheet Options Study:

  • • A subscription model to allow you to explore multiple flowsheet and project configuration options whilst guided by access to automatically generated, flowsheet-specific financial metrics.

    • We can provide a process engineer to develop the flowsheet options and manage the testwork programme or we can work with your existing process consultant.

• Phase II - Balance of Study: 

  • • Fixed-fee pricing to generate the full study deliverables and final report.

    • Pricing is based on your project's phase, CAPEX and complexity.

Reduced rates are currently available for beta-test programme participants.  Limited slots are available in the beta-test programme.

Beta Test Invitation

Be among the first to experience the ValMax advantage. We're inviting Australian junior and mid-tier mining companies to beta test the ValMax Modeller system at reduced rates. 

Help shape the future of mining project evaluation and gain a competitive edge with our cutting-edge solution.