1.1 – Gold
- Capacity: Operation of centralised service centres for artisanal and small-scale miners, providing assaying labs, mercury-free processing units (gravity concentrators, shaking tables), and mobile crushing/milling units.
- Plants & Equipment: Heap leach pads, carbon-in-pulp processing plants, bullion smelting furnaces, secure bullion vaults, and logistics vehicles for gold transport.
- Legal Compliance: Adherence to regional Gold Trade legistlation, environmental impact assessments (EIAs), and artisanal miners’ formalisation frameworks under NDS1.
- Business Case: Expanding beneficiation of gold to boost exports and domestic refining capacity, towards the goal of increasing earnings from beneficiated minerals.
1.2 – Copper & Lithium
Business Case: Copper and lithium are identified as strategic growth minerals which facilitate the transition to green energy (EV batteries, solar storage).
Capacity: Provision of exploration support services—core drilling, sample preparation, geometallurgy analysis, and pilot concentrators for copper and lithium ores.
Plants & Equipment: Core drilling rigs, XRF/XRD mineral analysers, flotation pilot plants, hydrometallurgical leaching units, lithium spodumene concentrators, and crushing/screening plants.
Legal Compliance: Operations guided by the Mines and Minerals Act, SADC mining protocols, and environmental management regulations.
1.3 – Aggregates & Quarrying
- Capacity: Community-sensitive quarrying operations supplying aggregates for roads, housing, and industrial projects with progressive rehabilitation programmes.
- Plants & Equipment: Mobile and fixed crushers, cone crushers, jaw crushers, screens, dust suppression systems, and noise reduction barriers.
- Legal Compliance: Alignment with EMA regulations on dust/noise control and biodiversity protection.
- Business Case: Aggregates form the backbone of regional transport infrastructure expansion.
1.4 – Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) & Chromite (Regional Potential)
Business Case: PGMs and chromite are identified as high-value minerals in national growth strategy, offering export diversification.
Capacity: Smelting and refining ambitions with partnerships for downstream beneficiation.
Plants & Equipment: Smelting furnaces, concentrators, chrome washing plants, and ore sorting technologies.
Legal Compliance: Conformance to SADC protocols on value chain development and local beneficiation.
1.5 – Coal & Industrial Minerals
- Capacity: Responsible coal extraction with integrated coal-to-power projects and industrial minerals (limestone, gypsum) for cement manufacturing.
- Plants & Equipment: Continuous miners, draglines, drilling rigs, conveyor systems, and coal washing plants.
- Legal Compliance: Compliance with regional energy policies and climate adaptation frameworks.
- Business Case: Supporting power generation, cement, and industrial value chains for regional growth.
1.6 – Feasibility Studies and Project Preparation
Strategic Advantage: Our integrated approach ensures projects are investment-ready, de-risked, and aligned with regional mining strategies.
Technical Feasibility: Capability to conduct geological surveys, resource estimation, mine design, geotechnical analysis, hydrological modelling, and environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs).
Financial Feasibility: Expertise in financial modelling, cash flow projections, sensitivity and risk analysis, cost-benefit assessments, and preparation of bankable feasibility studies for financiers, DFIs, and EPC contractors.
Innovation Edge
- Digital Mine-to-Market Traceability: Blockchain-enabled traceability for ethically sourced minerals.
- Sensor-Based Ore Sorting: Maximising resource efficiency and reducing waste.
- Drone Photogrammetry: UAV-based mapping for pit optimisation and rehabilitation planning.
- Mine Water Management: Tools for acid rock drainage (ARD) control, recycling systems, and real-time water balance monitoring.
