Service detail · Open Pit Mining
Your open pit, run to plan
Full-cycle open pit contract mining — drill & blast, load & haul, grade control and progressive rehabilitation — delivered on a performance contract.
The service
We take the whole open-pit cycle on one performance contract — drill & blast, load & haul, grade control, haul-road management and progressive rehabilitation — measured on cost per tonne, on-time material movement and safety. Across the Arabian Peninsula's phosphate and gold districts that means rapid mobilisation into desert sites, water-disciplined dust suppression and heat-managed shift design, with in-country hiring aligned to Saudization, Omanization and local-content commitments from day one. It is the model Corica Group proves across six African countries, moving 50Mt+ a year, rebuilt here with national workforces to the same global standards.
Request a quoteCapabilities
What we deliver
Drill & Blast
Production and pre-split drilling with engineered blast design — fragmentation set against your downstream dig, haul and crush cost, measured and adjusted bench by bench.
Load & Haul
Excavator-and-truck fleets sized to your production profile and run to a mine-to-mill schedule, with dispatch and cycle-time analytics that convert equipment hours into moved tonnes.
Pre-Strip & Waste Management
Box-cut, pre-stripping and staged waste movement that open your orebody on schedule and keep the strip ratio honest against plan.
Grade Control & Ore Definition
Grade-control drilling and selective mining at the ore/waste boundary that protect head grade and minimise dilution before it reaches your mill.
Haul-Road Management
Engineered haul-road construction and maintenance, dust suppression and in-pit services that protect fleet productivity, tyre life and cycle times.
Pit Dewatering & Water Management
Dewatering, drainage and sump management that keep benches working through the wet season and water use accountable in the dry.
Progressive Rehabilitation
Landform reshaping and progressive rehabilitation sequenced as mining advances, so closure liability never accumulates behind the pit.
Desert Delivery & Water Discipline
Desert open pits are won on mobilisation speed and water discipline. We stand up a working pit fast — the Group's proven mobilisation model for fleet, camp and haul roads in parallel, being established here — then run dust suppression and dewatering on a water balance your regulator and your ESG report can both stand behind. National workforce development is contractual, not cosmetic: operator and trade pathways tracked against Saudization, Omanization and local-content targets, so the capability we build stays in-country.
Proven by the Group
Proven by the Group. Adapted for the region.
The services described here are not theoretical. They are the work Corica Group has delivered across African mining contracts for more than two decades — open pit, underground, exploration drilling, site civils, infrastructure and technical services. The Middle East is the next regional platform for that capability.
Why Corica
What sets this service apart
One partner, pit to rehabilitation
A single accountable contractor across the whole open-pit cycle — drill & blast through progressive rehabilitation — removes interface risk, hand-off cost and the finger-pointing between contractors when tonnes slip.
Performance contract, not inputs
A performance contract with your owner's team: we carry the fleet, people and method risk and are measured on delivered tonnes, schedule and safety — not inputs, with a reporting model tailored to the contract type, commodity, scope and client requirements.
National workforce, global standards
We hire and develop national crews from day one — the same skills-transfer model that has built local workforces to global standards across six African countries — with operator and trade pathways tracked against Saudization, Omanization and local-content targets, so the capability stays in-country long after hand-over.
How we work
A method built on four steps
Rapid set-up with in-country hiring from day one.
Run safe, optimised cycles to plan.
Drive cost per tonne down, period on period.
Leave skilled nationals and rehabilitated land.
Related services
Adjacent capability, one partner
Talk to us about open pit mining
Scope a contract with our Middle East team.