Mining not fun anymore?

I asked about 50 mine managers to recall a time when they couldn't wait to get back to work after a holiday. One hand went up. 

Two forces, stacked over a generation, explain why. 

Force One. Cheaper data made it possible to balance capacity across the production chain. The protective buffers the old hands kept got stripped out. In a highly variable, interdependent environment, that produces starvation, blockage, and lost tons that cannot be recovered inside the period. 

Force Two. After 2008 and the 2011 to 2016 downturn, middle management layers were stripped out. Fewer superintendents, planners and coordinators went. Prices recovered. The layer and experience did not. 

Read the EY 2026 Top 10 through that lens and the top three risks fall out: operational complexity, costs and productivity, capital. Same root cause. The full piece walks through the data and what to do about it. →

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