- Quantitative scanning microscopy (Qemscan)
- SIP (specie identification protocol) file development
- X-ray diffraction (mineral phase identification and quantification)
- X-ray fluorescence (elemental)
- Optical microscopy
Metallurgical testwork (pilot and bench scale capabilities)
- Magnetic separation (drums, rolls, whims, lims, fractionation, etc)
- Electrostatic separation (rolls, plates, screen-plates, fractionation, etc)
- Density separation (spirals, shaking tables, jigs, fractionation, etc)
- Size separation (screens, fractionation, etc)
- Classification (air classifiers, upcurrents, cyclones, etc)
- Dewatering (desliming, thickeners, filters, settling vessels, etc)
- Flotation (cells, etc)
- Surface cleaning (attrition scrubbing, stirred mills, shear, etc)
- Comminution (crushers, mills, scrubbers, etc)
- Material handling (conveyors, bins, splitters, pumps, sumps, etc)
- Drying / heating / agglomeration (fluidised bed dryers, gas dyers, kilns, etc)
- Mass flow and equipment checks
- Process sampling
- Feed recoverability determination
- Sample processing and analyses
- Plant data evaluation
- Mass balancing
- Separation model development
- Mineral and/or elemental balance
- Recovery model
Equipment design, manufacturing and operation
- Fully equipped electrical, mechanical and machining workshop
- Design and manufacturing drawings
- Licensed site for the handling and processing of radioactive materials
- Pilot / small production plant logistics, commissioning and operation
- Equipment selection and sizing (equipment list)
- Supplier interactions and negotiations
- Feed variability envelope definition
- Performance testing
- Techno-economic studies
- Mass, water and medium balance
- PFD, P&ID, PDC, Control philosophy
- Plant commissioning
- HAZOP Studies
