SLR’s expertise and capability are relevant to all stages of the mine life cycle including:
- Exploration, planning and permitting stage
- Construction stage
- Operational stage
- Decommissioning, closure and aftercare stage
Our key mining sector services include:
- Strategic advisory services for due diligence on mergers, acquisitions and sales
- Exploration services for resource assessment and evaluation
- Planning and permitting services for all stages and types of minerals and mining activities
- Mine water and waste facility design, engineering and impact mitigation for heap leach, mine waste rock and tailings facilities
- Environmental monitoring and audit services for compliance and operational reviews
- Mine closure planning including rehabilitation, decommissioning and after-use
A selection of clients across SLR’s global Mining and Minerals business sector includes:
- Glencore
- AngloGold Ashanti
- BHP Billiton
- Newmont Gold
- Wolf Minerals
- Sibanye-Stillwater
- Resolute (Carpenteria Gold)
- Whitehaven
- New Hope Group
- CRH (Lafarge, Tarmac UK, Roadstone IE)
- Heidelberg Group (Hanson, Leighigh)
- Aggregate Industries (Lafarge Holcim)
Mineral Exploration Services
SLR has extensive exploration experience having successfully completed exploration projects for a range of minerals in various jurisdictions across the world. Our exploration related services include:
- Exploration management services include advice on mineral targeting and drilling project design. We assist with exploration programme management, data modelling interpretation and management
- Drilling services include core logging and QA & QC programmes
- Geological data analysis, providing resource and reserve calculation and modelling services. Joint Ore Reserve Committee (JORC) Code compliant assessments have been carried out for a range of minerals in several countries
- Our valuation and property advisory services include resource and reserve valuations by licensed valuers and the preparation of competent persons reports. We have a number of licensed /registered valuers in a range of jurisdictions across the globe