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Optimal Mining Solutions Pty Ltd is a specialist consultancy company that provides high quality mine planning, scheduling, simulation and other mining services to the mining industry.

We have provided mine planning services to clients in various countries including Australia, New Zealand, India and Papua New Guinea.

Our team provides many high quality services including:

  • Mid to long-term mine plans,
  • Life-of-Mine planning,
  • Feasibility studies,
  • Simulations,
  • Scheduling,
  • Resource optimisation,
  • Creation of customized programs,
  • Block and margin ranking,
  • Dragline planning,
  • Truck and shovel planning,
  • Drill and blast planning,
  • Environmental planning,
  • Reporting and statistics,
  • Strategic planning, and
  • Cost reduction and productivity optimisation.


Optimal Mining Solutions Pty Ltd own their own software licences which greatly reduces the cost and burden on clients.

All mine planning, reserving and cadding is completed in either Minescape or Vulcan.

Staging and sequencing work is completed with Earth Technology’s 3D-Dig software.

Our world-class simulations are completed with Wolverine's GPSS/H and Proof software packages.

Our team is also very experienced in the use of other mine planning software packages such as Runge’s XPAC and TALPAC. Licences for these software packages must be supplied by the client.