Where discipline drives dependable performance
Operational performance
Ensuring decisions, contractors, and performance stay aligned.
BlauForge is the corporate-level mining-governance expression of TacminMadini’s core capabilities. Where our core services align planning, operations, and delivery logic across complex mining, infrastructure, and mine-restoration projects, BlauForge extends that discipline into long-term operational governance. It unites technical stewardship, contractor alignment, lifecycle control, and environmental responsibility into a single partner that protects value across the mine’s life. With decades of oversight in mining and infrastructure, BlauForge delivers clarity, stability, and evidence-based decision pathways that keep operations performing as intended.
For more than three decades, TacminMadini’s core work has centred on bringing order, clarity, and disciplined governance to mining and infrastructure projects across emerging economies globally. BlauForge extends this legacy into a focused corporate-governance partner for mines, carrying forward the same planning discipline, contractor alignment, feasibility logic, and decision assurance that have underpinned every Tacmin project since the early 90s. It delivers the governance, clarity and alignment required to keep strategy, contractors and execution connected, ensuring mines behave as intended at every stage.
Mines fall behind when planning discipline, engineering intent, contractor behaviour, and ESG obligations drift out of alignment with operational reality. Volatility in cost, schedules, stripping, geotechnical conditions, water impacts, environmental compliance, and contractor performance creates risk that compounds quietly over time. BlauForge exists to close this governance gap. By uniting technical stewardship, risk visibility, operational assurance, and compliance oversight into one partner, BlauForge keeps decisions anchored in evidence, performance aligned with intent, and long-term value protected throughout the mining lifecycle.
Here’s What We Offer
BlauForge provides a governed structure that keeps the mine technically disciplined, operationally aligned, asset-stable, and environmentally responsible. We maintain clarity in planning and engineering, ensure fleets and systems perform as the mine plan requires, keep production, scheduling, and contractor behaviour aligned with operational reality, and embed responsible energy, ESG, and closure pathways throughout the life of mine. The result is a stable, well-governed operation where risks are visible early, performance stays predictable, and long-term value remains protected.
A mine performs predictably only when designs, schedules, and commercial terms remain aligned with real conditions. BlauForge maintains this discipline by validating engineering assumptions, refreshing plans, enforcing decision gates, and strengthening contract and variation controls. Owners gain clarity that protects performance, prevents drift, and preserves long-term value.
When equipment is mismatched, incorrectly specified, or supported by weak maintenance systems, cost volatility and instability follow. BlauForge restores control by aligning fleet strategy, procurement, commissioning, and lifecycle governance with the mine plan, giving owners dependable capacity, predictable costs, and strengthened confidence in long-term performance, reliability, and operational stability.
Production slips, cost overruns, and contractor drift develop gradually and often remain hidden until impact is unavoidable. BlauForge brings structured oversight that keeps production-to-plan, scheduling, and contract performance aligned with operational reality. Owners gain consistent execution, stable cost behaviour, and a clear operating rhythm supported by continuous improvement.
Environmental exposure, energy inefficiency, and closure liability accumulate across the life of mine if not monitored and governed. BlauForge aligns ESG obligations, energy performance, rehabilitation readiness, and post-mining value into one clear, disciplined pathway. Owners gain predictable compliance, reduced long-term risk, and the confidence that land will transition responsibly and retain future potential.
See how disciplined oversight strengthens decisions, reduces risk, and protects long-term value.
Sarel Blaauw
senior partner
+61 498 785 165