Territorial Asset Management
Your concessions, titles, easements, water rights, infrastructure and commitments form a portfolio. The question is whether anyone is managing it as one.
What it is
A discipline that manages the rights, constraints and commitments a project holds over territory, and projects their evolution through time.
It treats concessions, mining titles, easements, water rights, infrastructure, environmental commitments, closure obligations, regulatory constraints and geospatial information as a single portfolio — with expiry dates, obligations and interdependencies — rather than as separate files held by separate departments.
The output is not a register. It is the ability to answer, before capital is committed, whether a territorial decision will still hold for the full life of the asset.
The fourth dimension
Overlaying layers answers what exists today. Projecting them answers whether your decision still holds tomorrow. That second step is the one almost no one takes.
Territorial Compatibility Analysis
Inventory
The full portfolio of territorial assets — titles, concessions, easements, water rights, infrastructure, commitments and closure obligations — with validity and documentary source.
Overlay
Geospatial integration of every layer in a common reference frame, with inconsistencies between sources made explicit rather than quietly resolved.
Projection
The time axis: pit and dump growth, committed expansions, expiring rights, climate scenarios and regulatory timelines. This is the step others skip.
Interference detection
The points and moments where two uses come into conflict, with a territorial window calculated for each alternative.
Decision
A recommendation with compared alternatives, declared assumptions and the cost of delay. The deliverable is a decision that can be defended to the board and to the regulator.
Six variables beyond the LOM plan
Long-term mine planning was historically built on grade, sequencing and plant capacity. Six further variables now change where and how you can build, over the same horizon as the operation.
Water balance
Water availability shapes the operation and defines how facilities behave after closure.
Energy balance
Consumption by process is the baseline for any decarbonisation pathway and for comparing alternatives.
Decarbonisation
Footprint now governs access to finance, markets and permits. It changes which option is viable, not merely preferable.
Climate change
Scenarios that alter flood magnitude, water availability and post-closure conditions within the asset's life.
Energy transition
New infrastructure — solar plants, transmission, storage — competing for the same territory as the operation.
Operational resilience
The ability to keep operating when a hazard materialises: access, supply and continuity.
Instruments, not a catalogue
Almost every territorial engagement comes down to three questions: