MineLens

Optimize productivity with data and insights from MineLens

Volatile commodity prices and industry market valuations are forcing mine operators to cut costs, limit capital expenditures, and boost productivity. The size and speed of profitability improvements are hard to predict and vary significantly by commodity, region, and specific mine. MineLens analyzes labor, cost, and equipment-productivity data; benchmarks that data against a global set of peers; and delivers insights into performance-improvement opportunities.

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MineLens overview

Chris Mulligan, solution partner, shares how MineLens allows mine operators and owners to understand where there are gaps in operating potential and how to close them.

Benefits

Information capture
Our mining experts conduct site visits to assess operational practices, while our data specialists work to consolidate, clean, and map time-series data (such as metric tons, equipment metrics, and rates).
Insights
Leveraging our proprietary benchmarking database, our experts compare an organization’s operating, labor, and cost performance with that of a global set of peers and use the results to deliver a road map of improvement initiatives.
Assessment and goals
Our experts assess the effects that throughput and cost initiatives have on profitability and capital expenditures and work with the organization to align around common metrics, set achievable performance targets, and use dashboards to measure improvement over time.

MineLens by the numbers

Benefits

Global mining expertise
MineLens leverages McKinsey’s 85 years of industry expertise alongside the extensive experience our mining professionals have along the entire mining value chain to help companies implement transformations at mine sites around the world.
The world's largest mining operations database
MineLens allows companies to compare their operating, labor, and cost performance to a broad set of peers. Our proprietary database includes equipment, cost, and labor metrics from over 275 mining operations across the globe.
Unique, targeted insights
Our team of mining experts visit sites to understand the unique context of a company’s operations and provides recommendations based on the most granular level of detail.

Client Impact Stories

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Case Study

How Apple is helping unearth a path toward increasing the global use of circular materials

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As the need for recycled materials continues to grow, Apple worked with McKinsey to understand how expanding circular value chains could help meet the demand.
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From instinct to real-time insight: Transforming steel sales with AI

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ArcelorMittal Brazil partnered with McKinsey to redesign its sales journey. A gen AI–powered tool removed the friction of everyday selling, freeing salespeople to focus on what mattered most: creating value for customers.
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Emirates Global Aluminium: Leading the industry with AI-driven transformation

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How a top aluminium producer tapped the power of AI to transform the organization and scale impact across operations
Freeport-McMoRan: Unlocking new mining production through AI transformation
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Freeport-McMoRan: Unlocking new mining production through AI transformation

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Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world’s leading mining companies, faced a dilemma. To maintain growth in its Americas copper operations it needed to increase production. Freeport believed the answer lay in improving operations with advanced analytics.

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