MINING · A HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
FILL YOUR LEADERSHIP GAP WITH ELITE MINING PROFESSIONALS
WELCOME TO STRATUM
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Stratum is a global mining executive search, recruitment, trusted leadership advisor and management consulting firm. Whether at Head Office or Site, we help you hire high-performing leaders across corporate, business-critical, technical, and commercial leadership roles.
We help you reduce risk and commercial downtime and increase ROI.
STRATEGIC SUPPORT TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS
We’ll help you hire top-tier mid to senior-level management in-country/on site. More than 7,000 leaders interviewed; mandates in 60+ countries.
Focus: Site leadership recruitment and related management consulting services.
Lead the industry. We’ll help you recruit leadership that adapts faster than the industry can evolve.
Focus: Board, C-suite, Succession Planning and Executive Search.
Reduce your risk. We’ll provide strategic insight into the markets you’re investing in, giving your people on the ground an edge.
Focus: Due Diligence, Market Research, Independent Referencing and Consulting.
WHY STRATUM
WE SPECIALISE IN THE HUMAN ASPECT OF MINING
Mining materially contributes to everyone’s world and future. Our mission is to ensure that the best people carry this responsibility. It’s why we’ve dedicated more than 10,000 hours to proactively sourcing and cultivating over 7,000 of the top leaders in the business.
We build long-term and meaningful relationships with our clients and candidates by ensuring everything we do is steered and supported by our core values.
How we're different
WE'RE YOUR FULL MINING LIFE CYCLE PARTNER. NOT JUST ANOTHER RECRUITMENT COMPANY
We are a boutique human capital firm covering the full mining life cycle. Clients rely on Stratum’s knowledge, experience and access to de-risk their business, whether entering a market, exploring, developing a project, operating a mine, and all related activities (Investment/Financing/M&A/Country Risk Assessment/Due Diligence, etc.).
WE CHALLENGE OUR CLIENTS AND FOCUS ON CULTURE/FIT.
What starts well, ends well. We offer experience and data to challenge our clients, helping them reach optimal solutions, thus enabling confident and de-risked decision-making.
And because we’ve interviewed thousands of professionals in a concentrated niche, we know what good (and bad) looks like.
Our research indicates that up to 80% of company hires are based on subjectively assessing people’s skills, career experience, and a CV alone. Ultimately, 80% leave their jobs due to poor culture fit. Yet many traditional mining recruitment firms employ reactive “success-based” recruiting methods.
We’re different. We help you build a strategic approach to hiring “the right fit” people. Because we’ve proactively interviewed and assessed, hundreds if not thousands of leaders in each role discipline, we can focus on achieving a good culture fit.
This approach has proven optimal time and time again, to attract and retain the best people that will have the most positive impact on your future.
Where we work
A GLOBAL PRESENCE
Over the last decade, we’ve placed more than 350 high-performing mining leaders across corporate and technical disciplines in over 60 countries. If you think there isn’t a candidate for your market, we’ll find them.

OUR GLOBAL PRESENCE
PUTTING PEOPLE IN PLACES

AS FEATURED IN
The ASSAY | AUSIMM BULLETIN | MINING MAGAZINE | MINING.COM
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