Extractive Metallurgy and Mineral Processing
Service Overview
Our Extractive Metallurgy and Mineral Processing division delivers end-to-end solutions that maximize the value of your mineral assets. We begin with comprehensive feasibility studies and advisory services—ranging from preliminary economic analysis and conceptual studies to definitive, bankable feasibility reports and NI 43-101 compliant documentation—to lay a robust foundation for project success. This is seamlessly integrated with advanced process development and optimization services, which utilize simulation analysis, flowsheet design, and detailed mass and energy balances to fine-tune plant operations and the mine-to-mill interface. Our expertise extends to process control and optimization, ensuring operational efficiency through cutting-edge programming and configuration of automation systems under strict functional safety standards. Complementing these efforts, our geometallurgical modeling offers precise forecasting through tailored testwork protocols, while our laboratory and pilot plant testwork services provide rigorous evaluation and validation of equipment performance, process design, and cost estimations.
Key Features
Benefits
Our Capabilities
Feasibility Studies and Advisory
Foundation for success in extractive metallurgy projects
- Preliminary economic analysis
- Scoping and conceptual studies
- Preliminary feasibility or pre-feasibility studies
- Definitive and bankable feasibility studies
- National Instrument (NI 43-101) reports
- Engineering cost studies and project scoping reports
Process Development Optimization
Maximizing plant efficiency and throughput through refined process designs
- Process Design, simulation analysis
- Definition of plant design parameters
- Circuit and mine-to-mill interface evaluation and optimization
- Design and evaluation of flowsheets for variable ore feed quality
- Metallurgical testwork program design and management
- Flowsheet development
- Mass and Energy Balances
- Expansion studies
- Capital and operating cost estimation
- Cost-benefit analyses
- Equipment selection and sizing
- Metal accounting audits
- PLC, DCS, SCADA and MMI programming and configuration
- Functional Safety to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
Process Control and Optimization
Advanced simulation, analytical troubleshooting, and system programming to streamline operational efficiency
- Process Development, simulation, analysis and troubleshooting
- Flowsheet development
- Mass and Energy balances
- PLC, DCS, SCADA and MMI programming and configuration
- Functional Safety to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
Geometallurgical modeling
Transform raw data into actionable insights that drive metallurgical forecasting and process optimization
- Geometallurgical program design and coordination
- Ore sample selection
- Development of direct or proxy methods for metallurgical forecasting
- Development of grinding and separation testwork protocols
- Metallurgical model development
Laboratory and Pilot Plant Testwork
Bridge the gap between theoretical design and real-world application through rigorous validation
- Flowsheet Design
- Equipment Selection and sizing
- Capital and operating cost estimation
- Ore sample selection
- Testwork program management
- Testwork result analysis and interpretation
- Pilot plant supervision
- Lab Audits
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