Mining Project Project Dashboard
This is a practical guide to building a project dashboard for a mining project project — a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status, adapted to the realities of developing a mine or mineral extraction operation.
What a Project Dashboard is
A project dashboard is a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Dashboard. On a mining project project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Mining Project project
Mining Project projects live or die on developing a mine or mineral extraction operation. A well-built project dashboard gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how mining project projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Status indicators
- Schedule and cost KPIs
- Milestones
- Top risks/issues
Mining Project-specific considerations
Tailor the project dashboard to the risks that most often derail mining project projects:
- Environmental and community risk
- Geological uncertainty
- Remote-site logistics
Example
On a real mining project project, the project dashboard would be shaped by developing a mine or mineral extraction operation. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — environmental and community risk, geological uncertainty, remote-site logistics — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.