Tried and tested..

Founder

Every morning, from the route we take to the project we invest in, we all ask ourselves, 'Is this the best?'

Jose’s career, hobby, and passion are finding the best way forward by solving problems for the mining industry. His career has taken him from the Andes Mountains, finding the best way to grow copper production under capital constraints, to Canada, developing a gold mine with 1930’s handwritten records. In Brazil, he found the best way to meet customer quality expectations and expand production. Moving to Australia, Jose found the best development pathway to achieve a nearly impossible expansion. Most recently, in Singapore, he integrated optimisation and mineral economics with technical and commercial expertise to develop a pricing and placement model for the iron ore industry. Jose has left behind a trail of industrial development, innovation, algorithms, tools, systems, and teams in place to sustain, develop and continue searching for the best way forward.

Jose is a mining engineer from the University of Chile, with a Master's in Mineral Economics from Queen’s University. He has served the mining industry as researcher, executive as well as an international consultant for Codelco, Vale (CVRD), Barrick, and several gold and diamond junior companies. At Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Jose has been working the ranks from specialist to General Manager in Strategy and Strategic Production Planning roles.

Research Areas

Mineral Economics

• Growth strategies under uncertainty

• ESG modelling and optimization in mine planning

• Optimal Capital allocation

• Product Strategies market segmentation

Mining Engineering

• Mine to Market Optimization

• Conformance to plan and deviation

• Linearization of Industrial Solutions

Jose Caceres

Co-Founder

Systems and tools developed exclusively within the confines of technical analysis are prone to fragility. How do we develop resilience to the price shocks triggered by shifts in domestic and foreign policy?

For Eduardo, the answer lies in applying game theory models to anticipate both internal and external competitive behaviour across mineral markets.

At 18, he began his first research project in Yunnan Province, China, analysing the paradigmatic shift of centralised iron ore purchasing amongst steel plants in Kunming, and its broader effects on the Australian iron ore market.

Continuing his studies, he conducted field economic research in Papua New Guinea. By his second year, Eduardo had completed an ethnographic study of the Ramu NiCo mine in Madang Province, examining its struggles to achieve a Social License to Operate (SLO) among local-level governments (LLGs) and the wider population. His most recent project in 2025 involved macroeconomic analysis of service delivery in PNG, focusing on how mining royalties were distributed through layers of fiscal decentralisation. He presented his research to the PNG National government, presenting at the National Research institute to a private audience.

Through these experiences, Eduardo has developed a deep understanding of social license and mining, the institutional barriers to successful operation, and the importance of incorporating geopolitical and social variables into economic modelling.

Eduardo is currently in the third year of the Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) program at the Australian National University (ANU), studying Economics and Asia-Pacific Affairs. He has worked previously at the Embassy of Switzerland in Canberra and Deloitte's Operations, Industry & Domain Solutions team. He is also the Editor of the ANU Observer and leading it to compete in the Canberra media scene.

Research Areas

Economics

Managerial Economics, Optimisation for Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Political Economy.

Asia-Pacific Affairs

Mineral policy China, West Papua SLO, Papua New Guinea SLO and in-depth country studies, The Philippines (Bangsamoro), Swiss trade in the Asia-Pacific.

Eduardo CS

Our story..

For the Caceres-Sandoval family, mining was the ship that first brought them to Australia. After two decades with Rio Tinto, it was time for Jose to step ashore and build a home. What started as a career in the resources sector became a vision- to give back to the industry that had carried them so far.

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We serve clients in the mining industry globally, providing tailored consulting solutions for production planning.

Address

162 Daley Rd, Acton ACT

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8:30am - 6:30pm

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