SIAS Global

Assessing, monitoring, and evaluating essential resource activities

Expertise

We have saved our clients hundreds of millions of dollars.

Analysis

We provide financial exposure estimates and asset evaluations.

Accuracy

We collect data from primary sources to ensure accuracy.

Kairos Information Hub™

A Client Access Point To SIAS Products

Overviews

Kairos On-Demand Reports

Advanced Analytics

Remote Sensing & Geomatics

Ask Kairos ™

SIAS Global's Video Series

Kairos Information Hub™

Simple, yet dynamic, Kairos is our primary hub and suite of analytical services, as well as our client portal containing hundreds of thousands of regulatory and other relevant records of essential resource activities, including geographic information, advanced analytics, and client specific work product. Kairos is designed for surety underwriters, investors, and consultants, among others.

Overviews

An Overview is a compilation of regulatory and other relevant information with SIAS evaluations, such as site rankings and Cost to Reclaim Estimates (CTRE), based on current and past data points. Overviews are organized by specific companies or client accounts and accessible from the Kairos Information Hub. Overviews include site rankings based on levels of disturbance, reclamation progress, and regulatory compliance, as well as financial exposures and asset evaluations on both an individual site level and comprehensive account level.

Advanced Analytics

For clients who need specifically tailored analyses at high resolution, the service provides a robust body of detailed metrics, observations, and evaluations. Clients can request specific monitoring or historical reconstructions of ground activities at global locations difficult to access or extensive in coverage.

Ask Kairos

The commodities world is ever evolving. Ask Kairos is a video series SIAS Global launched in 2026. Its host, Russell Schimmer, spends each short episode on some aspect of essential resource activities and associated markets. The series is informative but also entertaining. The episodes explore what we know and how we know it; and what we think, and why we think it. The series will highlight what we do at SIAS and the services available from our Kairos Information Hub whether on sites and activities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, or Australia.

Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE ACTIVITIES?

Essential resource activities cover an extensive range, including mining and processing energy and minerals, managing waste and landfills, agriculture, and managing water resources.

DOES SIAS ONLY DO ADVANCED ANALYTICS OF RESOURCE EXTRACTION SITES?

While SIAS is extremely well versed in evaluating extractive sites, SIAS also evaluates a variety of other essential resource activities including power plants, landfills, and hazardous waste facilities. Additionally, SIAS has years of experience in monitoring and assessing water resources, large-scale agriculture, and pastoralism, as well as resource-development activities almost anywhere in the world.

WHAT TYPES OF COMMODITIES ARE IN THE KAIROS INFORMATION HUB?

There is a long list of mineral commodities in the Kairos Information Hub™. They are grouped under categories such as coal, energy (other energy minerals), mineral (metallic minerals and higher-unit-value industrial minerals), and quarry (lower-unit-value industrial minerals and rocks).

HOW OFTEN IS THE KAIROS INFORMATION HUB UPDATED?

The currency of SIAS data is dependent on the frequency with which regulatory and other relevant data become available, as well as the seasonality and frequency of Advanced Analytics work product. Some collected data and work product are updated monthly and some quarterly, while other data are only updated annually for various reasons or limitations in acquiring primary sourced data.