Consulting Services
The principal of Malachite Consulting, Bruce Wedderburn, is a professional Chemical Engineer with extensive international management experience in operations management, major projects, business development and technology development.
In particular, the experience covers a broad range of Platinum Group Metals and Base Metals with the main focus currently on Nickel, Cobalt, Copper and Uranium.
Malachite Consulting is supported by:
Mick Elias who is a well known and respected consulting geologist, specialising in nickel laterites, and
Brett Crossley who has extensive hydrometallurgical experience, in particular in the processing of nickel laterites.
Malachite Consulting is able to draw on an extensive network of experienced professionals both from within Australia and internationally. These professionals include geologists, mining engineers, chemical and metallurgical engineers plus those with commercial skills.
The extensive network enables both small and large projects to be undertaken with the technical and management input from Malachite Consulting.
Over the past 3 to 4 years there has been extensive work undertaken on heap leaching of nickel laterites and Malachite Consulting is able to provide a complete project development package based on companies who now have the requisite skills for Nickel Laterite Heap Leaching.
Key strengths of the Malachite Consulting group include leadership, teamwork, results delivery, responding to significant challenges and effective decision making.
Typical consultancy services would include:
- Operating plant reviews and site visits,
- Technical and commercial due diligence,
- Project assessments,
- Project management of engineering feasibility studies,
- Technology development,
- Process flowsheet development,
- Capital & operating cost estimates, and
- Financial evaluations.
