Metallurgical Engineering Advisory & Plant Support
Technical advisory for operating plants and processes under review.
Not every engagement starts with a new material. Often the question is about an existing plant that is not performing as designed, a proposed flowsheet that needs independent review, or a scale-up decision that needs testing before capital is committed.
Where advisory work applies
Process Assessment
Review of flowsheets, bottlenecks, balances and recovery objectives against actual performance.
Plant Engineering Support
Support across plant design, commissioning and optimisation.
Process Improvement
Identifying improvement opportunities that are technically sound and worth doing.
Mass & Energy Balances
Balances verified against real operating data rather than design assumptions.
Technology & Scale-Up Advisory
Evaluating technical pathways before investment or scale-up commitment.
Independent Review
Technical due diligence on a proposed route, study or claimed performance.
Walkdowns and process reviews
A plant that is underperforming usually has a reason that is visible in the balances, the operating data, or on the floor — and often in the difference between those three.
Advisory work generally begins with a walkdown and a reconciliation of what the plant was designed to do against what it is measurably doing.
- Plant walkdowns with process and operating context
- Balance verification against actual operating data
- Debottlenecking and prioritised improvement recommendations
Five situations worth a conversation
A New Residue Stream
You hold material with possible value and no established route to recover it.
Underperforming Recovery
An operating circuit is not achieving the recovery or grade it was designed for.
A New Flowsheet
A proposed route needs independent technical review before it goes further.
Pilot-to-Plant Scale-Up
A validated pilot needs engineering support to reach commercial scale.
Comparing options on a common basis
Where several technical pathways are on the table, the difficulty is usually that each has been assessed under different assumptions. Put on a common basis, the ranking often changes.
We rebuild the comparison against the same feed, the same product specification and consistently closed balances, so the choice reflects the technology rather than the assumptions.
Process TechnologiesFrequently asked
Yes. Plant walkdowns, process reviews, balance verification, debottlenecking and process improvement on operating facilities are a core part of the advisory work.
Yes. Independent review of a proposed route, study or claimed performance is regularly requested, including as technical due diligence ahead of an investment decision.
When it changes a decision — sizing equipment, comparing routes on a common basis, or identifying which assumption the outcome is most sensitive to. Modelling that only confirms what is already known is not worth commissioning.
Discuss your material or process challenge
If you hold a residue stream, by-product, tailings resource or slag with possible recoverable value — or a process that is not performing as designed — we are interested in the technical detail.