MINING OVERVIEW
At Krech Ojard & Associates our mining team provides complete engineering services from feasibility studies, site mapping and reclamation to construction management and equipment specification. Our experience spans throughout underground and open pit mines, material handling systems, mills, processing plants, refineries, and slurry handling.
These services, when coupled with our commercial/industrial and transportation expertise provide our clients with total project engineering from concept to close out.
Mining Industry Experience
Since our inception in 1984, Krech Ojard has provided engineering support to the mining industry on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota and across the globe. Our experience ranges from concept to operations and includes the following:
- Bankable feasibility studies
- Conceptual site development plans for mines, ports and transshipment facilities
- Rail and marine transportation studies
- Operational logistics and planning
- Material handling and equipment selection
- Process integration and capital/maintenance planning
- Detailed design and program management
- Plant engineering support
- Construction administration and commissioning
Our staff approach projects with real-world management, operation and maintenance experience and know what it takes to keep facilities working in all ranges of environmental conditions. This experience and our reputation for high-quality, consistent performance has taken us from the jungles and ports of South America to the northern regions of Canada and Alaska, and from Europe to Africa and Australia.
Krech Ojard Knows the Iron Range
Located near Minnesota's Iron Range, North America's largest iron ore mining district, Krech Ojard & Associates has worked in the iron ore mining and pelletizing industry for over 25 years and has completed hundreds of projects involving upgrades and modifications to these massive facilities. Projects range from mining and crushing facilities to concentrating, pelletizing, firing and shipping of the final product. Senior employees
with the firm have come from the mining industry and are experts with mining, processing and shipping of the pelletized products. This experienced leadership directs the core of Krech Ojard's engineering groups.