
Marsh’s Mining Market Update 2019
The latest Mining Market Update features in-depth analysis and commentary on current global insurance market conditions for mining risks.
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XHaving a program that identifies, manages, and transfers risk can enhance financial and operational resilience and help maintain business viability across the entire mining lifecycle.
The global mining industry faces many challenges: softer commodity markets, cost-management challenges, reduced access to finance, and increasing expectations around social, economic, and environmental issues among host communities and regulators. Meanwhile, investors demand operational rigour and capital discipline to ensure sufficient returns from capital-intensive assets and projects.
In an industry where losses may be few but significant, Marsh’s Mining Practice helps you to avoid, manage, and transfer risk across the entire mining life cycle, from capital-raising to mine closure.
Our global team of industry specialists understands the risk challenges faced by the mining and mineral processing industry. We are ready to work with you to help you reduce the probability and potential impact of a loss and ensure your insurance programs provide economic protection.
The result of Marsh’s mining industry expertise: robust, cost-effective risk management and risk transfer programs that enhance the resilience of your business.
Government mine-safety organisations, shareholders, media, and the public are scrutinising your ability to deal with unforeseen events and crises. It’s therefore critical to quantify losses and maximise insurance recoveries in a timely manner.
At Marsh, we understand the challenges following losses: catastrophe management, lost sales, sourcing equipment, and the need to measure complex business interruption and related costs.
Our claims experts are well versed in different mining techniques and associated processing activities. And with more than 100 claims professionals around the world having served mining clients, we are ready to help you in most geographies.
We advise on captive insurance options for mining companies around the world. Our global team of 450 captive professionals comes from a range of backgrounds, including insurance, reinsurance, accounting, taxation, and law.
Recognising that multiple factors need to be considered, we can help you:
With more than 70 years of experience of working with clients in the mining industry, Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC) provides advice, analytics, tools, research, and solutions for a wide range of risk issues. Our goals are to build the resilience of your business by:
With a wide range of technical skills and capabilities, our dedicated professionals meet your company’s day-to-day needs. MRC offers the following services to help you manage your risk exposures:
Corporate activity is returning to the mining sector. Mining companies are responding to changing outlooks by optimising their project and operational portfolios and right-sizing their balance sheets. Meanwhile funds are forming to direct significant capital to new sector opportunities.
Marsh’s Private Equity and M&A Services (PEMA) Practice provides risk and insurance advice that complements traditional financial, legal, and commercial due diligence. Our advice enables both buyers and sellers to better understand the risks in any given transaction and factor them into negotiations and the pricing of a transaction.