The mining industry offers many opportunities. Use the Public Miner Database to find the best ones!
The Public Miner Database helps equipment manufacturers & service providers rapidly develop a short list of potential Customers around the World
To support daily consultancy activities, BME requires a relatively up to date summary of the mining industry. A summary that can be used to (i) make informed holistic assessments of the industry, (ii) connect miners with equipment manufacturers & service providers that can add value, or (iii) identify specific mining industry opportunities.
Although there are a number of reputable mining industry data providers, we struggled to find a dataset that covers all major global regions, provides data for producers as well as explorers, is up to date, and relatively affordable. So to meet our own data requirements, we created the Public Miner Database. Based on popular demand demand, BME now offers the database to the general public.
A summary of the mining industry
The objective of the Public Miner Database is to rapidly identify relevant mining industry opportunities with an elevated probability of success. The focus on exchange listed companies is due to the fact that public miners constitute the majority of the market, are generally more forthcoming, and more frequently publish up to date information.
Rather than applying an algorithm, the database is developed manually by mining engineers based on a review of data published by individual miners. Data sources include mining company websites, presentations, annual reports, and other first-hand data available in the public domain.
Some drill-down functionality exists, but the database is not intended to provide significant detail for a specific mining company. Instead, the database aims to enable its user to see the forest for the trees. The database serves as a 1st step in your analysis, saves time, and application generates a short list of potential global opportunities.
What's included
The database comprises of >2300 public mining companies, in fact every miner BME could find, with listings on 40 different stock exchanges in 30 different countries. Correspondingly, the database supports a wide range of activities for different mining industry stakeholders, including mining companies, equipment manufacturers, service providers, and investors. For example, uses include:
I. Sales: Rapidly identify, investigate, and select possible mining company customers for mining products & services
II. Market analysis: Generate opportunities or establish the global competitor landscape (for benchmarking exercises)
III. Project / Product development: Distinguish and develop projects or products for which demand is greatest
IV. Development strategic insight: Analyze how the public mining sector is strategically positioned
V. Investment: Develop a (short-) list of potential investment or merger & acquisition opportunities based on selections for the preferred company type, primary / secondary / individual commodities, or a preferred region / country
The database lists the following information per public mining company:
- Stock exchange(s) (including dual listings)
- Company name and website
- Continents and countries where company has active mining assets
- Expected company status: ‘Active’ or ‘Inactive’*
- Type of business*
- Number of operational, development, and exploration assets*
- The primary commodity and secondary commodity*
- Individual commodities (#67 different commodities grouped into categories)
'*' indicates a field for which BME consultant mining engineers make assessments to promote usefulness of the database.
An example of strategic insight the Public Miner Database has to offer
Mining professionals characterize the mining industry as:
- Dominated by bulk commodities. BME includes iron ore, bauxite, metallurgical coal, thermal coal, and heavy mineral sands as bulk commodities
- With battery age metals in 2nd place. BME includes copper, zinc, lead, nickel, manganese, rare earths, cobalt, vanadium, lithium, graphite, and cadmium
- And precious metals in 3rd place. BME includes gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, indium, and rhenium in this category
This consensus view is also supported by, and perhaps based on, widely referenced data from the United States Geological Survey. The figure below shows an estimate of the market size of global mine production in 2020, based on USGS 2020 estimates for global mine production & BME May 2021 commodity price assumptions.
Although this conventional view of the mining market is useful, it doesn't tell the whole story. For instance, a strategic insight developed using the Public Miner Database shows public mining companies strategic ‘primary commodity’ positioning is entirely focused on gold. Truly nothing else even comes close.
How does this insight affect your business?
You may also find the database pays for itself based on its 1st application. So discover new opportunities & save time by buying the Public Miner Database today!