Service detail · Underground Mining
Your orebody online, on schedule
Decline development, production drilling and stoping delivered at advance rates that de-risk your schedule — safe metres, every shift.
The service
Hard-rock underground mining for the Arabian Shield — decline development, production drilling and stoping as the region's gold and base-metal orebodies go deeper. We mobilise proven underground crews fast, contract to advance rate and cost transparency tailored to the contract, and build national workforces through a structured trade pathway — the same operating model built on the 9 Safety Pillars our group has proven across six countries, aligned to local-content commitments from day one.
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What we deliver
Portal & Project Start-Up
Box-cut, portal establishment and early works that get your project underground fast — mobilisation to first cut measured in weeks, not quarters.
Decline & Lateral Development
High-speed decline and level development — the rate that governs how quickly your orebody comes online, contracted in metres per month and reported weekly against plan.
Production Drilling & Stoping
Drill, charge, bog and haul cycles run to your stoping method and production schedule, measured where it matters: delivered tonnes and cost per tonne.
Ground Support & Shotcreting
Rock bolting, mesh, cable bolting and in-cycle shotcrete installed to the site geotechnical design — 100% QA/QC logged, so every heading is a safe heading.
Ventilation & Underground Services
Ventilation, pumping and power reticulation planned with the development schedule, so services never hold up the face.
Materials Handling & Backfill
Trucking, loading and ore-pass management from face to surface, with stope backfill placed to plan and mined-out areas closed responsibly.
Vertical Development & Raise Work
Raise development connecting levels and ventilation circuits, with specialist raise-boring delivered through proven partners under our single contract.
Underground Depth, Built In-Country
Underground competency is scarce in the region — most contractors carry open-cut, soft-rock experience, while the Arabian Shield's hard-rock gold and base-metal deposits demand disciplined ground support and development method. Corica arrives with the underground systems already built: geotechnically designed support regimes, in-cycle QA/QC and a nipper-to-miner pathway that turns rapid mobilisation into a nationalised crew — mapped to Saudization, Omanization and local-content targets, not bolted on afterwards.
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
Advance rate that de-risks your schedule
Advance rate is the number owners buy. We contract to it, report it weekly and hold it — group crews have proven 240m a month on a single heading, the kind of rate that earns repeat contracts.
National crews, one standard
The same safety systems, maintenance regime and transparent reporting practices our surface clients already trust, applied below ground — and staffed through a nipper-to-miner pathway that builds national underground miners toward your Saudization, Omanization and local-content commitments. One standard, one nationalised crew.
One contract, one accountable team
Management, labour, equipment and materials under a single performance contract — no interface risk between development, production and ground support, and one partner answerable for the metres.
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 underground mining
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