A mining house built by people who had to make the plan work themselves
Fleur de Rocaille started in 2000 with one drill, one truck and a rule we've never dropped: take only the work you can actually deliver, then deliver it exactly as priced.
Most mining problems aren't mysterious. They're just unfixed.
A pit drifting off grade, a plant quietly losing recovery, a decline that stopped advancing because nobody owned the ventilation plan. These are not hard problems — they are staffing and accountability problems.
So we do two things: we put crews with real experience onto the specific thing that is broken, and we report on it in a way that makes drift impossible to hide. Cost per tonne, grade, dilution, downtime — every shift, in a format your finance team already accepts.
Today we run 74 trucks, 11 rigs and a workshop, across South Africa and Zimbabwe. We are still, in behaviour, a company that answers its own phone.
- 2000
Founded in Randfontein by a geologist and a production engineer, one drill, one truck.
- 2007
First full contract production award — a manganese pit in the Kalahari.
- 2013
Underground division opened; decline sinking and mechanised stoping crews formed.
- 2019
Processing and metallurgy team added after a plant rebuild lifted recovery 9.3 points.
- 2024
Cross-border operations in Zimbabwe; 74 trucks and 11 rigs on the books.
The short version
Four rules, posted on every site office wall
The person who quotes it runs it
No handover to a stranger after signature. The engineer who walked your bench owns the outcome.
Bad numbers travel fast
If a shift missed plan, you hear about it before the end of the shift — with the fix attached.
Nobody goes home hurt
Stop-work authority sits with every person on site, including the new hire on day one.
Leave the ground better
Rehabilitation is planned on day one of a contract, not when the bond underwriter asks.