Wardell Armstrong
Wardell Armstrong is a full-service British technical mining consultancy with global expertise in the whole mine life cycle. We also have extensive experience in Mineral Estates Management (MEM), and have the largest MEM team in the UK.
Services include mineral exploration, Mineral Resource Estimation, Ore Reserve evaluation with mine design and scheduling, metallurgical testwork and mineral processing, environmental and social analysis, economic and financial assessment, through to mine closure including economic development for the local community and post mining.
Portfolio of Services
Introduction
Services include mineral exploration, Mineral Resource Estimation, Ore Reserve evaluation with mine design and scheduling, metallurgical testwork and mineral processing, environmental and social analysis, economic and financial assessment, through to mine closure including economic development for the local community and post mining.
In addition, our in-house mining services include mineral target realisation and GIS services, Mineral Resource Evaluation and development, mineralogical examination, open pit and underground optimisation studies, geotechnical, hydrological and hydrogeological assessment, ventilation design, maintenance regimes, labour requirements, ore and waste management, tailings and waste dump design. Wardell Armstrong also operates the largest independent metallurgical testwork laboratory and pilot plant in Europe.
We have significant experience in environmental and social aspects of mining projects and specialise in reducing your environmental and social risks. Our team of highly experienced specialists work closely with clients and lending organisations to ensure lender milestones are met and environmental and social performance meets the required standard.
Our specialists are Qualified Person’s under the CIM Code (NI 43-101) and Competent Person’s under the JORC Code (2012), and can provide reports to all internationally recognised codes, tailored to the development stage of your project.
Wardell Amstrong’s expertise covers all commodities including, base, ferrous, precious metals, coal, industrial minerals and unconventional gas including shale gas, gained through our work on global projects in over 90 countries including Africa, North, Central and South America, Russia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
We are one of the few UK companies able to protect human and environmental safety by managing your use of cyanide to the best international standards. We provide cyanide compliance audits, informal and gap cyanide audits and give general cyanide management advice. This includes preparation of cyanide management plans, standard operational procedures, development of emergency response plans, tailored cyanide awareness training and advice on procurement strategies.
More recently we have developed our capability and are at the forefront of the strategic metals revolution driven by the battery metals and electric vehicle industries demand for lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel, tin, manganese and rare earth metals.
With a long track record of providing innovative solutions and technical advice, we enable you to make sound investment and mining decisions.
Services Index
Civil and Structural Engineering
- Assessment and Development of Mineral Resources
- Negotiation and Management of Mineral Agreements
- Ownership of Minerals
- Valuation and Finance
- Environmental Testing
- Metallurgical Testwork Programmes
- Process Design and Flowsheet Development
- Site Services
- Environmental and Social & Health and Safety
- Geology and Exploration Services
- Mine Engineering
- Mineral Resource Estimation
- Mining Economics
Focus
Li4UK – Wardell Armstrong, Cornish Lithium and the Natural History Museum securing a Lithium Supply Chain for the UK
Posted on 11 June 2019
Wardell Armstrong International (WAI) is delighted to announce our participation in an incredibly exciting new project funded by the UK Government Faraday Battery Challenge.
Over the next 12 months, WAI will be working alongside UK-based Mining company Cornish Lithium and the Natural History Museum in order to assess the viability of securing a Lithium supply chain within the UK, helping to meet the huge demand for the battery metal expected from the global transition to electric vehicles:
Dr Chris Broadbent, Research Director Wardell Armstrong International and Project Coordinator commented: “Presently the UK is totally reliant upon imported lithium compounds, with the vast majority supplied from China, for use in the Lithium Ion Batteries (LIBs) that will power the electric vehicles of the future. This is the first project funded by the Faraday Battery Challenge that examines the potential to provide lithium from UK sources, including rocks and brines. I believe it can be of great significance to development and the creation of a 21st century, green mining industry in the UK.”
For any further information, please contact:
Wardell Armstrong, Tel: +44 (0) 207 242 3243, Beth Payne – Bpayne@wardell-armstrong.com
Cornish Lithium, Tel: +44 (0) 1326 640640, info@cornishlithium.com
Blytheweigh – PR, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7138 3204, Julia Tilley - Julia.tilley@blytheweigh.com, Camilla Horsfall - Camilla.horsfall@blytheweigh.com
Contact
Wardell Armstrong International
Baldhu House
Wheal Jane Earth Science Park
Baldhu
Truro
TR3 6EH
Telephone
+44 (0) 187 256 0738
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