2013 Company Capability Statement

Mineral Engineering Consultants

Ph:
+61 8 9421 9000
Fax: +61 8 9325 8311
Email: info@metsengineering.com
Web: www.metsengineering.com
PO Box 5778, ST GEORGES TCE WA 6832
AUSTRALIA

> Mineral Processing

> Engineering Design

> Training

> Specialist Services

Working Globally

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Bulgaria
Finland
Georgia
Greece
Greenland
Macedonia
Serbia
Russia

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Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Ecuador
Dominican
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Congo
Egypt
Ghana
Guinea
Mauritania
Namibia
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Mali
Mozambique
Liberia

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China
India
Indonesia
Kyrgyzstan
Iran
Kazakhstan
Saudi
Arabia
Malaysia
Philippines
Vietnam
North
Korea
Laos

Australasia
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New Zealand
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Key Attributes
Pragmatic, efficient, complete engineering through
quality, personalised & exceptional service delivery

> Working globally since 1988

> Dynamic and innovative niche consultancy
> Dedicated team providing customised service
> Specialist in Mineral Processing & Engineering Projects
> Unique solution finder

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Values
Trust
We act openly, ethically
and fairly
Quality
We strive for excellence
and do our best
Timeliness
We are responsive and
attentive

Personalised Service
We work on building lasting
relationships in spirit of
cooperation and respect

Technical Innovation
We grow, challenge and
seek better solutions

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Management Team

Damian Connelly
Director/Principal
Engineering Consultant

John Visser
Metallurgical Manager

Damian Connelly has over 40 years

metallurgical experience and has spent the last
23 years working as a metallurgical consultant
in Australia and overseas. His expertise is
extensive and includes a breadth of
commodities, in particular Gold. Damians
experience spans engineering, auditing, due
diligence, tenders and expert witness work.
His experience has been gained in plant
operations, feasibility studies, detailed design,
construction and commissioning and all unit
operations.

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John has over 27 years experience in the

mining industry as a metallurgist, principally in
ferrous metals as well as experience in gold,
mineral sands, coal, limestone and diamonds
within Australia and South Africa.
His experience includes study management, as
well as brownfield and greenfield design and
construction experience which encompasses
crushing and screening plants, furnaces, spirals,
jigs, DMS plants and materials handling systems.

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Mining Project Timeline

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Service Pillars

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Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing is our core speciality.

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Mineral Processing
Engineering Design

Engineering Studies

Experience

Training

> Sighter testwork

Specialist Services

> Conceptual/scoping studies

> Plant design, plant layout &

Flowsheet development

> Pre-feasibility Studies (PFS)

> Feasibility Studies (FS)
> Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS)

> Crushing, grinding, flotation,

leaching, thickening, filtration, BIOX,
POX UFG, roasting, magnetic and
electrostatic separation, unit
processes

Test Work Programmes

> Process optimisation

> Scoping & development

> Process integration

> Testwork programme management

> Mineralogy & interpretation

Testplans, testplan
descriptions, quotes,
evaluations & scheduling

> Interpretation of results

> Analysis CAPEX & OPEX

> Equipment design, specification and
selection
> Summary reporting
> Commissioning
> Acceptance testing

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Engineering Design
METS has particular expertise in multi-discipline design and plant
layout.

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Mineral Processing
Engineering Design
Training
Specialist Services

Mechanical

> Design, drafting, costing

> Maintenance audits

> Energy audits

> Maintenance strategies

Instrumental & Control

> Design and costings

> Failure analysis

Equipment Design, Specification

& Selection

Engineering Studies

Drafting

> Reliability engineering

> Visio, AutoCAD, Solidworks

> Process optimisation

> General arrangements

> Preventative maintenance and

shutdown reviews

> 3D arrangements

> Performance reviews and

improvement strategies

> 3D piping

> Operability and maintainability

Civil & Structural

> Design, drafting, costing

Piping

> Single line diagrams

> Structural arrangements
> Elevations

Value Engineering
> Cost savings, in both capital and
operations

> Design, drafting

> Materials selection, layout

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Training
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METS provides customised and in-house training courses that give

participants increased technical awareness and practical expertise
no matter what their level of experience.

Mineral Processing
Engineering Design
Training

METS can also assist you in creating, re-writing or updating your

operations training manuals. All of our services can be delivered via
an e-learning option or with site placed trainers if required.

Specialist Services

Courses

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Mineral Processing (flagship course)

Advanced Mineral Processing
Process Plant Optimisation
Metallurgical Accounting
Uranium Workshop
Iron Ore Processing
Gold Extraction Short Course
Water Management in Mining
Heap Leaching
Nickel Extraction Short Course
Sensible Cost Cutting Workshop

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Metallurgy for Non-Metallurgists

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Lead and Zinc Processing

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Process Plant Design

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Process Control Fundamentals

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Project Management Course

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Fundamentals of Feasibility Studies

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METS Customised Courses

designed and tailored to meet the
unique requirements of each
client and its employees

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Specialist Services
METS provides expert consulting services and advice to
the industry internationally.
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Mineral Processing

Operational

Risk Management

Engineering Design

> Process plant auditing

Training

> Operational reviews

> Facilitating formal risk

assessment workshops

Specialist Services

> Operating manuals

Water and Waste Water

> Water and waste water

review
> Tailings Storage Facility (TSF)
management review
> Environmental review
Financial Institution Services
> Due diligence reporting and
audits
> Investor review
Legal Services
> Expert witness
Simulation & Optimisation
> 3D drawings

> Mass balance

> Circuit & modelling
> Crushing & screening

> Electrical compliance

review
> Energy auditing

> Conducting HAZOPS and

HAZID studies

> EPCM

> Identifying potential project

risks and proposing
mitigation strategies

> Proposal

> Identifying potential

opportunities through risk
assessment
Consulting Services

> Study peer review

> Technical review
> Financial modeling
> Metallurgical consulting
> Technical risk review
> Gold plant security review
> Competent person review
> Engineering Services

> Project definition

> Cost estimate
> Defining scope of work
> Scheduling
> Procurement
> Project management
> Close out
Dust Management
> Audits
> Strategies for control
People for Plants
> Specialist labour hire to
the mining, oil & gas and
construction industries

> Plant equipment review

> Monte Carlo Simulation

> Conveyor design
> Energy balance
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Project Experience
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Copper
Lead / Zinc
Gold
Iron Ore
Vanadium
Mineral Sands
Nickel
Rare Earths
Uranium
Manganese
Alumina
Phosphate

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Global Projects
Vanadium

Copper

Gold - Silver

Mt Peake Project

Sungun Project

Casposo Project

TNG Ltd
Northern Territory, Australia
Metallurgical Testwork

National Iranian Copper Industries Co

Iran, Middle East
Metallurgical Review

Troy Resources NL
Argentina, South America
Feasibility Study and Detailed Study

A comprehensive metallurgical testwork

programme consisting of comminution,
beneficiation, acid leaching and solvent
extraction/stripping, was designed by METS
to study the amenability of the Mount
Peake deposit to hydrometallurgical
processing.
METS and TNG jointly developed a new,
patented technology breakthrough. The
revolutionary
technology
is
a
hydrometallurgical process suitable for
extracting vanadium, titanium and iron
from titanomagnetite.

METS
was
engaged
to
conduct
metallurgical
review,
to
develop
flowsheets, detailed process description,
process design criteria and piping &
instrumental diagram. This was followed by
the illustration
of a plant
layout,
mechanical equipment list and project
implementation strategy. METS then went
on to commissioning and performance
testing of plant.

This project included the creation of a

financial model, metallurgical services and
test works, second hand equipment
sourcing, transportation and re-assembly.
Planning and design for construction of
new equipment was required for the
unique process. Preparation and planning
for the construction of a power grid on site
was also created. METS key initiatives also
included the cyanide destruction circuit
and dry tailings facilities.

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Global Projects
Iron Ore

Uranium

Mineral Sands

Marillana Project

Hinda Uranium Phosphate Project

Vietnam Chromite Sands Project

Brockman Resources Pty Ltd

WA, Australia
Front End Engineering Design

Cominco S.A.
Republic of Congo, Africa
Metallurgical Testwork

Archipelago Resources PLC

Vietnam, Asia
Scoping Study

METS conducted the following test work:

> QEMSCAN mineralogy to determine
quantitative mineralogy of the different
ore types
> Flotation testwork to consider alternative
collectors.
> Grind sizes and conditioning to produce
a higher quality phosphate concentrate
> Uranium leach and recovery testwork to
establish possible uranium extraction
> Beneficiation testwork on an additional,
high grade phosphate sample.

METS designed and managed an extensive

testwork program to develop a processing
route to produce a chromite sands
concentrate as part of a feasibility study.
Various magnetic and gravity separation
methods were trialled before a flowsheet
was proposed. This was modelled to
estimate
recoveries
and
determine
throughputs for a number of production
rates.

Mineral Engineering Technical Services Pty

Ltd (METS) was involved in the FEED Stage
to identify areas from the DFS study that
had risk associated which impacted plant
utilisation, operability and efficiency of
beneficiation and providing solutions to
overcome these obstacles while ultimately
achieving a final costing before execution.

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Recent Technical Papers

Date

Conference

Title

2012

2nd Annual
ALTA
2012, Perth
IIR Managing
WA.
West Sticky & High Clay
Ores, Perth WA.

Clarifying SolutionsMapping
Geometallurgical
for Heap of
Leaching
a Complex
withGold
WSOOre Body to Manage
Process Risk and Validate the Proposed Process Flowsheet

2012

ALTA 2012,
COM
2012,Perth
Niagara
WA.Falls Canada.

2012
2012
2012

COM 2012, Niagara Falls Canada.

SME Annual Meeting 2012, Seattle USA.
Fe TECH Conference 2012, Perth WA.

The Use of QEMSCAN

Processing
of Gold Copper
for Ore
and
Characterisation
Copper Gold Ores with Flowsheet
Development and Strategies
Critical Aspects of Low Grade Ore Beneficiation
Water Management Issues with Processing Magnetite Ores
Transportation Issues, Magnetite Concentrate From Mine to Port

2011
2012
2011
2012

Conference of Metallurgists 2011, Montreal

IIR
Iron Ore Project Development & Logistics
Canada.
Conference 2012, Perth WA.
AusIMM Metplant Conference 2011, Perth, WA.
ALTA 2012, Perth WA.

2011

AusIMM Iron Ore Conference 2011, Perth, WA.

Sensible Cost Cutting for Resource Projects

Geometallurgical Mapping of a Complex Gold Ore Body to Manage
Process
Risk Eyre
and Validate
the Proposed
Process
Flowsheet
The Central
Iron Ore ProjectProcess
Selection
and Design

2012
2011

ALTA 2012, Perth WA.

AusIMM Metplant Conference 2011, Perth, WA.

Processing of Gold Copper and Copper Gold Ores with Flowsheet

The Casposo Gold-Silver
Project- Process Selection and Design
Development
and Strategies

2011
2012

AusIMM
International
Uranium
Conference
2011,
SME Annual
Meeting 2012,
Seattle
USA.
Perth, WA.

The
Metallurgical
AndIssues
Engineering
Aspects Magnetite
Of Successful
Uranium Heap
Water
Management
with Processing
Ores
Leach Projects

2011
2011

Conference
of Metallurgists
2011, Montreal
ALTA 2011, Perth
WA.
Canada.

Insitu
Leaching
of Process
Gold Deposits
The Merrill
Crowe
vs. Carbon In Pulp- Process Selection

2011

Mill Optimisation
WA.
AusIMM
MetplantConference
Conference2011,
2011,Perth
Perth,
WA.

Trends with
Selection
Sizing of Large
Grinding Mills- Whats available in
Sensible
Cost
Cutting and
for Resource
Projects
the market place?

2011

Australian
Journal
of Mining, May/June
2011.
AusIMM
Iron
Ore Conference
2011, Perth,
WA.

Trends
with Selection
andProjectSizing ofProcess
Large Grinding
The
Central
Eyre Iron Ore
SelectionMills
and Design

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Insitu Leaching of Gold Deposits

Latest Developments Transporting An Ore Through a Pipeline

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Why Use METS?

4 Pillars of Service

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Mineral Processing
Engineering Design
Training
Specialist Services

Working Globally

Global Independent
Consultants since 1988
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Australasia
Africa
Asia
Europe
Mideast
North America
South America

Commodity Experience

Over 600 Projects:

> Gold
> Copper
> Iron Ore
> Nickel
> Base Metals > Uranium
> Vanadium > Mineral
Sands
> Manganese
> Rare Earths > Aluminum
> Magnetite
> Chrome
> Tantalum
> Garnet
> Kaolin
> Sulphur
> Tungsten
> Talc

Wealth of
Experience

> 25 years experience

> Junior to mid tier
market specialists
> Greenfield &
brownfields expertise
> International Projects
> All Commodities
> Investigation, studying,
execution of mining
projects

METS Core Purpose: to make economic resource projects more robust, to make robust resource projects realise their full potential.

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