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• Testing the Case for Hybrid Manganese Mining

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Manganese. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on presenting the rationale for the previously recommended Hybrid Mining Method and considering the merit of an underground mining method only on a qualitative high level, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Independent Assurance for Gold Resources and Reserves

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Gold. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on conducting the independent audit of the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves in the FY2024 financial period, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• From Lithium Mine Plans to S-K 1300 Reporting

  Country: Finland. Commodity: Lithium. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on conducting a Lithium Mining Study in Finland in order to compile an Ore Reserve Statement and S-K 1300 TRS (Technical Report Summary) for two of the Pits signed-off by a Qualified Person, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Strengthening Copper Mine Planning Through Model Review and Training

  Country: Zambia. Commodity: Copper. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on review and training on their existing STP L&H Model, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Exploring Underground Mining Potential for PGMs and Base Metals

  Country: Zimbabwe. Commodity: PGMs. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on assessing the economic potential of adding base metals and PGMs to the current operation and testing an underground mining method for faster, more cost-effective access and production, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Assessing Infrastructure Risk at a Heavy Mineral Sands Plant

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: HMS. Risk Management.

  This engagement focused on providing project base risk assessment which includes a plant area with thickeners piping and conveyor systems, and supporting infrastructure, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Engineering the Technical Basis for a Fluorspar Mining Study

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Fluorspar. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on support a mining study, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Aligning Coal Reserves, Resources and Life-of-Mine Planning

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Coal. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on assisting in bridging the resulting capacity gap, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Updating the Long-Term Plan for a Fluorspar Mine

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Fluorspar. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on providing depleted the Long Term Plan (LTP), with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Designing a Tunnel-Boring-Led Hybrid PGM Mine

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: PGMs. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on designing and scheduling of a 60ktpm underground hybrid mining method, using a Tunnel Boring Machine (“TBM”) for decline and strike drives development and with conventional development and up/down-dip stoping, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Geological Insight to Guide Chrome and PGM Decisions

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Chrome & PGMs. Geology.

  This engagement focused on technical geological consulting and advise based on the queries from the client and the available data and historic technical work, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Building the Feasibility Case for a Nigerian Coal Operation

  Country: Nigeria. Commodity: Coal. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on client required a Feasibility Study and a Competent Person's Report (CPR) for their coal mining operation in Nigeria, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Updating a Gold Resource Model and Mineral Resource Statement

  Country: Zimbabwe. Commodity: Gold. Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy.

  This engagement focused on providing geological wireframe modelling, blockmodelling and an updated Mineral Resource Statement, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Testing Logistics Hazards Through a HAZOP Study

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Non-Mining. Risk Management.

  This engagement focused on providing risk services, facilitating a Hazard and Operability Study (the project) for Transnet, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Managing Early Works at a Brownfield Phosphate Operation

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Phosphate. Project Management.

  This engagement focused on continue providing skilled Project Management Services to assist with all the activities related to the early works stage at a brownfields phosphate operation. Key activities: contract negotiations, develop operating philosophy, appointment & management of the detail design consultants, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Preparing Iron Ore Operations Through Readiness and Risk Reviews

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Risk Management.

  This engagement focused on providing Operational Readiness- and Risk Management Services, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Finding Bottlenecks Across the Iron Ore Value Chain

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Metallurgy.

  This engagement focused on comprehensive bottleneck analysis and implementation of business improvement strategies across the mining value chain. Focusing on dentifying operational constraints and optimising resource allocation to maximise the value of the ore body and extend the longevity of the mining operations, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Steering a Greenfield Manganese Feasibility Study

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Manganese. Multi-disciplinary, Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on support as part of an integrated owner’s team for a greenfield manganese project. Managing the project's administrative and strategic framework to ensure the complex feasibility study remained on track within a highly compressed nine-month timeline, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Finding Production Efficiencies at a Copper–Cobalt Mine

  Country: DRC. Commodity: Cobalt & Copper. Industrial Engineering.

  This engagement focused on improving production efficiencies at an existing copper / cobalt mine in the DRC, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Bringing Consistency to Iron Ore Exploration Reporting

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Project Management.

  This engagement focused on exploration site reporting in a structured, standardised, uniform and consistent format, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Refreshing the Feasibility Basis for Namibian Uranium Deposits

  Country: Namibia. Commodity: Uranium. Multi-disciplinary, Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on updating 2013 fesibility study (DFS) mining study, including the Oshiveli, Onkelo and Anomaly A deposits, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Connecting Mine Planning and Rock Engineering for Manganese

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Manganese. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on life of mine studies, short term operational assistance, short term planning and Rock Engineering, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Strengthening On-Site Diamond Mine Planning and Production

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Diamonds. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on health and Safety, Production Management and Mine Planning services. Mine Planning. Conduct a LOM investigation of the economic potential of the mining project. The mine planning cycle included Pit Optimisation, Mine Design, Mine Production Schedule, Equipment Study, Cost Modelling and Reserve Estimation. The mining software used in the planning and investigation included pit designs in Geovia Surpac and scheduling in Geovia Minesched, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• From Conceptual Mine Plan to Iron Ore Resource Estimate

  Country: Cameroon. Commodity: Iron Ore. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on akom 2 iron ore mineralisation (magnetite) conceptual mining study to delivering a resource estimate, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Verifying the Condition of Nationwide Telecoms Assets

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Non-Mining. Project Management.

  This engagement focused on conducting a comprehensive physical asset verification and condition assessment for the client’s vast national infrastructure, which includes hundreds of transmitter sites. The project aimed to reconcile physical equipment with the financial asset register to ensure regulatory compliance and improve operational reliability for national broadcasting, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Competent Person Reporting Across Four Copper–Cobalt Mines

  Country: DRC. Commodity: Cobalt & Copper. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on delivering four competent persons' reports for four (4) of ERG’s operating African mines, namely Boss Mining, Camrose, Frontier and RTR. All of them being in the Katanga province in the DRC, these mines form part of ERG’s Copper and Cobalt asset portfolio. The CPR’s were compiled using the definitions and guidelines presented in the APACtralian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves of 2012 (“JORC Code”), with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Bridging Exploration and Feasibility for a Gold Development

  Country: Cote d'Ivoire. Commodity: Gold. Geology, Mining Engineering, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on support and technical advisory services to assist in the development of this large-scale gold project. Bridging the gap between exploration and feasibility by offering independent technical reviews and project management expertise to ensure the project met international reporting standards, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Examining Residual Risk After a Mine Safety Investigation

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Manganese. Risk Management.

  This engagement focused on evaluated residual risk potential and various remedial recommendataions related to a section 54 investigation, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Planning the Closure of an 80-Year-Old Iron Ore Mine

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on transition of the 80-year-old Thabazimbi Mine from active operations to a successful closure and decommissioning phase.Provide a structured risk management framework to navigate the geotechnical, financial, and legal complexities associated with shutting down a large-scale iron ore operation, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Connecting Coal Life-of-Mine Plans to Short-Term Operations

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Coal. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on translating long-term LOM planning into short term planning outputs, evaluation operational performace, practices & procedures, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• From Design to Commissioning: A Mobile Gold Wash Plant

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Gold. Industrial Engineering, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on the scope involved providing specialist engineering and project management support for the design, procurement, and commissioning of a mobile alluvial gold washing plant, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Linking Ore Characteristics and Processing Performance in 3D

  Country: Central Africa. Commodity: Copper. Geology, Metallurgy.

  This engagement focused on developing a 3D geometallurgical model for a copper-cobalt asset to quantify the relationship between geological ore characteristics and downstream processing performance, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Strengthening Phosphate Resource Confidence Through Drilling

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Phosphate. Geology.

  This engagement focused on end-to-end management of a complex drilling and sampling programme to upgrade the resource classification of a phosphate deposit, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Safeguarding Bauxite Quality from Mine to Port

  Country: Guinea. Commodity: Bauxite. Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy.

  This engagement focused on optimising the bauxite value chain from the pit to the port, specifically addressing ore quality management and moisture control to prevent liquefaction and ensure safe maritime transport, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Integrating Quarry Mine Planning and Project Delivery

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Industrial Minerals. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on mining Eningeering Services, Mine Planning, Project Management, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Testing Anthracite Development Risks at Pre-Feasibility Stage

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Anthracite. Multi-disciplinary, Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on facilitating a comprehensive risk management process as part of a Pre-Feasibility Study for a potential mining development.Identify and quantify technical, financial, and operational risks that could impact the project's viability during the early planning stages, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Optimising Diamond Pit Designs and Production Schedules

  Country: Botswana. Commodity: Diamonds. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on optimising pit designs and long-term scheduling for a major diamond operation, ensuring alignment with strategic production targets and geotechnical constraints, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Getting the Mahenge Graphite Project Ready to Operate

  Country: Tanzania. Commodity: Graphite. Industrial Engineering.

  This engagement focused on providing an Operational Readiness Plan (ORP) and Project Execution Plan (PEP) for the Mahenge Graphite Project located in Tanzania, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Balancing Short- and Long-Term Demands in Manganese Planning

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Manganese. Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on updating the medium-term plan for the operation while balancing long-term and short-term production requirements, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Bringing Iron Ore Rehabilitation Data into One View

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Project Management.

  This engagement focused on consolidating historical exploration-hole rehabilitation data into a centralized database that delivered accurate, real-time information accessible to all stakeholders, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Building the Financial Case for Bankable Iron Ore Development

  Country: Namibia. Commodity: Iron Ore. Multi-disciplinary, Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on building a bankable feasibility study financial model to support external funding discussions, test operating options, and assess project viability under multiple scenarios, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• SAMREC-Compliant Reporting for Vanadium Resources and Reserves

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Vanadium. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on preparing a SAMREC-compliant resources and reserves report that aligned with the South African reporting code and supporting technical standards, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Valuing a Coal Asset Through Competent Person Reporting

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Coal. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on determining the current value of the colliery and characterising the asset using historic and recent exploration and mining data to support plant optimisation and updated reporting, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• From Geological Model to SAMREC Phosphate Reporting

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Phosphate. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  This engagement focused on assessing the phosphate resource through geological and block-model work and producing a SAMREC-compliant competent person’s report and mineral resource statement, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Testing the Feasibility of a Namibian Uranium Project

  Country: Namibia. Commodity: Uranium. Multi-disciplinary, Geology, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Project Management.

  This engagement focused on assessing the economic potential of a uranium project in Namibia and developing the technical inputs required for a feasibility-stage mining study, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Linking Iron Ore Beneficiation Options to Mine Planning

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Iron Ore. Mining Engineering, Metallurgy.

  This engagement focused on evaluating beneficiation scenarios for an iron ore operation and preparing the datasets required for pit-limit analysis and LOM planning, with emphasis on robust technical analysis, stakeholder alignment, and decision support.

• Independent Resource and Reserve Assurance for Rutile

  Country: Sierra Leone. Commodity: Rutile. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  Delivered specialist Competent Person support and technical advisory services for mineral resource and reserve reporting activities associated with a large-scale rutile mining operation. The engagement included geological interpretation, resource validation, reporting support, and alignment with international reporting standards to support operational planning and investor confidence.

• JORC Reporting to Advance a Gold Development

  Country: Mozambique. Commodity: Gold. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  Conducted Competent Person reporting and technical advisory services for a gold exploration and development project. Scope included geological assessment, mineral resource evaluation, project review, and preparation of compliant technical reporting documentation to support investment and development initiatives.

• Strengthening NI 43-101 Reporting for a Gold Project

  Country: Namibia. Commodity: Gold. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  Supported the preparation and review of NI 43-101 compliant technical reporting for a gold mining project. The work incorporated resource analysis, mining evaluation, technical due diligence inputs, and reporting support aligned with international disclosure requirements for listed mining companies.

• Validating Copper–Cobalt Reserves Across African Operations

  Country: DRC, Zambia. Commodity: Cobalt & Copper. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  Delivered technical mining and reserve estimation support for copper-cobalt operations across Central and Southern Africa. Services included reserve validation, mining engineering input, technical reporting support, and strategic advisory services for operational and investment decision-making.

• From Geological Interpretation to JORC Copper Reporting

  Country: DRC. Commodity: Copper. Geology, Mining Engineering.

  Delivered Competent Person reporting and technical consulting services for a copper project, including geological interpretation, resource estimation support, mining evaluation, and preparation of compliant reporting documentation for investor and stakeholder engagement purposes.

• Targeted Engineering Support for Gold in Burkina Faso

  Country: Burkina Faso. Commodity: Gold. Mining Engineering.

  Applying structured mining engineering assessments to address project requirements, strengthen technical understanding and inform future development decisions.

• Assessing Underground Mining Options for Gold

  Country: Ghana. Commodity: Gold. Metallurgy.

  Assessing technical considerations within an underground gold mining environment to provide practical insights that support project planning and informed decision-making.

• Advancing Operational Readiness for a Malawian Rare Earths Project

  Country: Malawi. Commodity: Rare Earths. Industrial Engineering.

  Supporting the next stage of a rare earths project in Malawi through structured technical assessments, integrated analysis and informed project planning.

• Building Geological Understanding for a Manganese Project

  Country: Gabon. Commodity: Manganese. Geology.

  Consolidating geological data and exploration findings to strengthen understanding of a manganese deposit and support informed decisions on future project development.

• Assessing the Value-in-Use of Australian Iron Ore

  Country: Australia. Commodity: Iron Ore. Metallurgy.

  Assessing the value-in-use of Western Australian iron ore through structured technical analysis to provide practical insights that support commercial evaluation and informed project decisions.

• Translating Manganese Requirements into Plant Design

  Country: Australia. Commodity: Manganese. Metallurgy.

  Integrating technical requirements, mine planning inputs and operational considerations to support practical plant design and informed project decisions for an Australian manganese operation.

• Shaping a Coal Mine Rehabilitation Plan in Malawi

  Country: Malawi. Commodity: Coal. Mining Engineering.

  Consolidating mine planning inputs and technical assessments to establish a practical rehabilitation planning framework, supporting informed decisions and the next stages of rehabilitation for a surface coal mine in Malawi.

• Engineering Support for a Gold Project in Mali

  Country: Mali. Commodity: Gold. Mining Engineering.

  Applying focused mining engineering expertise to assess technical requirements, consolidate project findings and provide a practical foundation for informed decisions and future gold project development in Mali.

• Restarting Development Planning for a Remote Gold Project

  Country: Greenland. Commodity: Gold. Project Management.

  Gold mining operation project development in an extremely remote area.

• Debottlenecking a Polymetallic Concentrator for Brownfield Upgrade

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Zinc. Metallurgy.

  Base Metals Concentrator Debottlenecking and Upgrading projects for a Copper-Lead-Zinc-Gold Polymetallic project in South Africa

• From Pit Shell to Schedule: Nickel Life-of-Mine Planning

  Country: South Africa. Commodity: Nickel. Mining Engineering.

  Nickel Open Pit Life-of-Mine Study: From Whittle Shell to Practical Pit and Destination Schedule. Integrated pit optimisation, pushback design and advanced destination scheduling for a constrained nickel open pit