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Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Navesh Ragoonanthun

Director Mineomics SA

Navesh Ragoonanthun serves as a Director at Mineomics SA, a specialist company supporting mines globally in maximising orebody potential through the fundamentals of Mining Economics, technical advisory, strategy and corporate finance. Prior, Navesh was based in the UK as MD Energy and Natural Resources at an investment bank. He also spent 11 years consulting (at Bain & Co and Deloitte) to the mining industry and was a partner at Deloitte where he served as the Operations Transformation (Energy and Natural Resources) leader. He has a proven ability to turn underperforming mining assets into profit generating businesses. Navesh has led multiple capital project reviews (technical and financial) of brown and greenfield tier 1 projects at various global mining companies in all major commodity categories spanning Australia, USA, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and southern Africa. He started his career in deep level mining production at AngloGold Ashanti and later moved to Rio Tinto focussing on Mine Development. He also served as the Group GM for Business Development at a rail and port company and brings an end-to-end value chain skill set from pit to markets. Navesh holds a BSc Mining Engineering and MBA qualifications.

2026 Agenda Sessions

The digital evolution of blasting in mining

As mining ventures push deeper and face increasingly complex geology, the pressure is on – not to blast harder, but to blast smarter. This panel discussion explores how cutting-edge technologies are revolutionising blasting – from digital initiation systems and real-time fragmentation analytics to AI-driven blast design and environmental impact mitigation.

Tuesday 10 February 09:05 - 10:00 Nubian Pyramids Stage (CTICC2 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)

Disruptive technologies

Add to calendar 02/10/2026 09:05 02/10/2026 10:00 The digital evolution of blasting in mining

As mining ventures push deeper and face increasingly complex geology, the pressure is on – not to blast harder, but to blast smarter. This panel discussion explores how cutting-edge technologies are revolutionising blasting – from digital initiation systems and real-time fragmentation analytics to AI-driven blast design and environmental impact mitigation.

 Nubian Pyramids Stage (CTICC2 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall) Africa/Johannesburg
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