Modern Mining November 2024

CONSULTING ENGINEERING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Bara Consulting optimistic heading into 2025 By Nelendhre Moodley Underscored by strong demand for gold and copper is the emergence of junior miners in these commodity spaces in South Africa, the likes of whom include West Wits, Copper 360 and Orion Minerals – all of which is good news for the industry and consulting engineers, such as Bara Consulting, which is targeting robust growth in the next few years, MD Etienne de Villiers tells Modern Mining .

“T he rise in junior gold and copper miners is driving growth in Bara Consulting’s local business. We remain focused on supporting the junior mining sector and, as a small-to-medium sized consultancy firm, we believe we are a like-minded, entrepreneurial and agile company, and a good fit for junior miners.” As a result, Bara Consulting is now engaged in significantly more work in-country work than from the rest of Africa. “2024 has, to date, been a good year for Bara Consulting; we are currently poised for growth through our continued offering of quality consulting services, mainly in respect to feasibility studies and technical due diligence. Additionally, we have grown our service offering by expanding into EPCM, mine closure and the geology consulting services space.” Given its strong work ethic, Bara Consulting has been

receiving positive feedback on the quality of its work from clients, especially as related to studies and due diligence. “Our core business remains the delivery of feasibility studies and, having recently gone through numerous peer review processes on several projects, the company has been receiving complimentary feedback on the high quality of its work”. On the back of positive reviews, clients have expressed an eagerness for the consulting firm to take early-stage projects through to the next phase of design and project engineering work. “Following the completion of a feasibility study for a client in the junior mining space, the client subsequently asked us to transfer our project knowledge into the design and project implementation stage going forward.” De Villiers explains that with the conclusion of its feasibility

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