Earlier this year, when international markets reacted swiftly and sharply to the conflict in Iran, many of us were asking the same question: what happens to mining? It’s an industry that runs on fuel to power plants, process materials, and move them from pit to port. What happens if we can’t fuel the D11s to make that happen?
At TUNDRA, we position ourselves as solutions providers: not just people who come in and workshop ideas, but people who see them through to something tangible.
Jamieson Mulready, one of TUNDRA’s sharpest thinkers, turned that question into a tool: a Fuel Calculator that walked his client through fuel levels, burn rates, stock-out risk and incoming supply. It spoke directly to the tension between operational certainty and market uncertainty, giving the client something concrete to take to their C-suite – a way to project costs, model how long they could operate at current levels, and pinpoint exactly when operations would stop if conditions held.
As it turned out, the client didn’t need it: tariffs lifted and diesel has kept flowing to Australian shores (albeit with a level of volatility and price fluctuation). But what the tool provided (and has to others since) was a measure of control over what had felt entirely uncontrollable.
That’s the model TUNDRA works to: tools that put control back in clients’ hands, not plans that gather dust the moment key variables shift. Drop us a line to try the calculator for yourself.