• Miramar - Mantua Project - Santa Lucia, Cuba. Open pit mining development of an oxide copper deposit with heap leaching processing method, including operation of a pilot plant facility. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment. An SX/EW pilot plant facility was designed and operated at the site to evaluate heap leaching characteristics of the ore and determination of optimum treatment strategy.

Lead

• Curragh Resources Inc - Sä Dena Hes Project, Yukon - 1500tpd underground lead-zinc mine. The study included mine design, flowsheet development, capital and operating cost estimates, environmental impact study, permitting, transportation and project economic modeling, impact/benefits agreements with First Nations.
  
  
• Curragh Resources Inc - Stronsay Project, British Columbia - 4000tpd underground lead-zinc mine. The study included mine design, flowsheet development, capital and operating cost estimates, environmental impact study, permitting, transportation and project economic modeling, impact/benefits agreements with First Nations.

Nickel

• Falconbridge Ltd. - Onaping Deep Project, Ontario - nickel-copper-PGE, deposit. Audit of mineral resource and mining technical review for internal feasibility study.
  
  
• RTZ - Fortaleza Project - Brazil. Combined open pit and underground mining development of a sulphide nickel ore body. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment.
  
  
• Sherritt International - Moa Bay Project, Cuba - open pit nickel-cobalt deposit. Mineral resource and reserve estimate for Hatch feasibility study.

Tungsten

• Amax Inc. - Mactung Project, Yukon - 3000 tpd underground tungsten mine. The study included ore reserve estimation, mine design, flowsheet development, capital and operating cost estimates, transportation and project economic modeling.

Zinc

• Curragh Resources Inc. - Vangorda Project - Faro Yukon, zinc-lead-silver deposit. Open pit mining development of a satellite orebody to extend the operating life of the Faro mining operations. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, site environmental evaluation, design of environmental management systems, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment. Project development work included pioneering development of the site, coordination of equipment installation and construction, and start-up of mining operations.

• Curragh Resources Inc. - Grum Project - Faro Yukon, zinc-lead-silver deposit. Open pit mining development of a satellite orebody to extend the operating life of the Faro mining operations. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, site environmental evaluation, design of environmental management systems, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment. Project development work included pioneering development of the site, coordination of equipment installation and construction, and start-up of mining operations.

• East West Caribou Mining - Caribou Mine, New Brunswick, zinc-lead-silver deposit. The study included ore reserve estimation, mine design, capital and operating cost estimates, transportation and project economic modeling fore the development and expansion of an existing operation.

PRECIOUS METALS

gold

• Black Hawk Mining Inc. - Bald Mountain Project - Ashland Maine. Open pit mining development of a gossan gold deposit associated with a copper-zinc sulphide deposit including a vat leaching processing plant. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, site environmental evaluation, design of environmental management systems, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment.

• Black Hawk Mining Inc. - Vogel Project - Timmins Ontario. Underground mining development of a satellite gold deposit for processing at a custom milling facility. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, site environmental evaluation, design of environmental management systems, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment.

• Echo Bay Mines Ltd. - Cameron Lake Project, Ontario - open pit gold mine, resources and reserves estimate for Wright engineers Ltd. Feasibility study.

• Granduc Mining Corp. - Farley Lake Project - Lynn Lake Manitoba. Open pit mining development of a satellite gold deposit designed to deliver ore to a centralized milling facility. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, site environmental evaluation, design of environmental management systems, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment. Development of the operation included construction of facilities, oversight of pre-stripping contractor, and start-up of full scale operations.

• Manhattan Minerals Corporation - Tambo Grande Project, Peru - 10,000tpd open pit gold-copper-zinc mine. The study included ore reserve estimation, mine design, flowsheet development, capital and operating cost estimates, environmental impact study, permitting, transportation and project economic modeling, impact/benefits agreements.

• Miramar - Delita Project - Nueva Gerona, Cuba. Underground mining development of a refractory gold deposit. The study involved development of resource/reserve model, determination of economic mining limits, mine design, equipment selection, capital cost estimation, operating cost estimation, and overall project economic assessment.

pge

• North American Palladium - Lac Des Iles Project -Ontario, platinum and palladium underground mining feasibility study.

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