AURUS MINING: MINING · INFRASTRUCTURE · ENGINEERING · ENVIRONMENT
The resources the world needs, engineered on evidence.
Mining · Infrastructure · Engineering · Environment
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WHO WE ARE
Purpose
Aurus Mining is an independent consultancy in applied geosciences and mining development. We help world-class projects emerge: from first reconnaissance through scoping, prefeasibility and definitive study work, into permitting, financing and dispute support. The practice sells intellect first, and fields equipment, crews and full campaigns when the work demands it.
Combined decades of experience in geology, geophysics, geochemistry, drilling, ESIA, scoping studies, PFS, DFS, NI 43-101, JORC and AACE-class estimating.
Rooted in Central Africa, delivering to international standards, with engagements spanning the Gulf of Guinea, the West and Southern African seaboard and its inland corridors, and consultants drawn from Canada, France, Cameroon, Congo, South Africa and beyond.
Our clients are junior and mid-tier explorers, private exploration and development companies, resources-finance and investment groups, maritime and logistics operators, and sovereign governments. For them we carry a portfolio of mandates across the service lines, in Central Africa and beyond.
EVIDENCE
At a glance
- Combined decades of senior international experience
- A US$10-billion-class integrated iron-ore program assessed
- A ~1,550-page Category-A environmental and social assessment authored
- Twelve complete regulatory dossiers (permit applications and renewals) under mandate
- A 24-month, three-season environmental baseline synthesized
- Maritime market-intelligence work delivered across six countries
Selected measures, each traceable to a delivered work product or a signed mandate. The figures are floors, never totals.
More than twenty client mandates and more than thirty engagements on consummated evidence alone, with mandates in execution today.
FOUR DIVISIONS
Markets
Mining & Metals
Exploration strategy, field programs and resource data governance, carried through the full study ladder to investment-grade economic evaluation.
Enter the divisionInfrastructure
Mine-to-port logistics engineering: mineral terminals, heavy-haul rail, access roads, high-voltage transmission, power and water, from APS pre-design to execution drawings.
Enter the divisionEngineering
Study engineering across Scoping, PEA, PFS and DFS, with estimating mandates spanning AACE Class 5 to Class 1 and FEED-ready design practice.
Enter the divisionEnvironment & Water
Category-A environmental and social practice: multi-season baselines, ESIA and ESMP suites, FPIC practice, water stewardship, closure and rehabilitation planning.
Enter the divisionFOOTPRINT
Where we work
Central Africa
West and Southern Africa
Delivered
Category-A assessment of an integrated iron-ore program
Category-A environmental and social impact assessment authored for an integrated resources program. Role: ESIA author. Standards: IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles, ISO 17025.
Delivered
Multi-season baseline and Indigenous-Peoples program
Multi-season environmental and social baseline synthesis with FPIC and Indigenous-Peoples planning. Role: baseline-synthesis author, ESMP designer. Standards: IFC PS6/PS7.
Signed mandate
Definitive Feasibility Study mandate, potash solution mining
Definitive Feasibility Study mandate for a potash solution-mining development. Role: DFS consultant under a signed contract. Standards: AACE estimate classification, OHADA.
Delivered
Scoping-level techno-economic study, potash and magnesium
Scoping-level techno-economic study (AACE Class 5) for a potash development concept. Role: study author. Standards: AACE classification, exploration-target disclosure discipline.
Engaged
3D seismic acquisition and processing mandate
Engaged for a 3D seismic acquisition and processing program over a coastal evaporite basin. Role: acquisition and processing contractor. Standards: Canadian mining-industry data-quality practice.
Delivered
Multi-method geophysical reconnaissance, delivered
Ground magnetic and radiometric reconnaissance designed, executed and delivered over a 24 km² permit grid with 100% data-quality acceptance. Role: full-cycle geophysics contractor. Standards: Competent-Person supervision to the CRIRSCO-family codes.
Contracted
Twelve regulatory dossiers under a national Mining Code
Contracted to prepare complete regulatory permit dossiers under a national Mining Code and OHADA law. Role: regulatory engineer. Standards: national Mining Code, OHADA, legally opposable e-signed deliverables.
Prepared
Exploration synthesis for a frontier copper position
Exploration synthesis and investor-grade data presentation prepared within our practice for a frontier exploration position. Role: data-synthesis author. Standards: geochemistry and airborne-magnetics interpretation practice.
Design mandate
Mine-to-port corridor APS program design
Preliminary-engineering (APS) program designed for an integrated mine-to-market logistics chain. Role: APS program designer. Standards: APS methodology.
Delivered
Maritime market intelligence across six countries
Maritime and commodity market-intelligence studies delivered across six countries in West and Southern Africa. Role: market-study author. Standards: investor-grade market analysis practice.
In execution
ESIA program for a heavy-haul rail corridor
Commissioned to deliver the environmental and social impact assessment program for a heavy-haul rail corridor; tranches in execution. Role: ESIA program consultant. Standards: national ESIA regime.
Active mandate
Active 2026 mining-title renewal mandate
Active mandate for the preparation of mining-title renewal dossiers, continuing a multi-year regulatory-engineering relationship. Role: regulatory engineer under a signed 2026 contract. Standards: national Mining Code, OHADA.
Delivered
Multidisciplinary field reconnaissance, delivered
Completed a two-week, eight-person multidisciplinary field reconnaissance across rail, port and power sites, with the preliminary design brief drafted. Role: field-reconnaissance and preliminary-design team. Standards: geotechnical field practice, APS methodology.
Credential list
Public filters cover region, market, lifecycle rung and status. Commodity context stays within each independent credential to preserve confidentiality.
- Category-A assessment of an integrated iron-ore program Delivered
- Multi-season baseline and Indigenous-Peoples program Delivered
- Definitive Feasibility Study mandate, potash solution mining Signed mandate
- Scoping-level techno-economic study, potash and magnesium Delivered
- 3D seismic acquisition and processing mandate Engaged
- Multi-method geophysical reconnaissance, delivered Delivered
- Twelve regulatory dossiers under a national Mining Code Contracted
- Exploration synthesis for a frontier copper position Prepared
- Mine-to-port corridor APS program design Design mandate
- Maritime market intelligence across six countries Delivered
- ESIA program for a heavy-haul rail corridor In execution
- Active 2026 mining-title renewal mandate Active mandate
- Multidisciplinary field reconnaissance, delivered Delivered
CAPABILITY
Flagship practice
Bankable feasibility and Category-A ESIA practice for deep-water port and terminal infrastructure sits at the center of the practice: lender-grade study discipline, marine works literacy from dredging to shiploading, and assessment programs built to IFC Performance Standards from the first terms of reference.
METHODOLOGY
How we work
The Aurus Corridor Model
One framework carries every mandate: the resource, the corridor that monetizes it, the capital that builds it, and the licence that lets it operate, read together rather than in sequence.
- Resource
- Corridor
- Capital
- Licence
TRACK RECORD
Selected mandates
This gallery is a selection, never the ledger. On consummated evidence alone the practice spans more than twenty client mandates and more than thirty engagements, with mandates in execution today.
Delivered
Category-A assessment of an integrated iron-ore program
Signed mandate
Definitive Feasibility Study mandate, potash solution mining
Active mandate
Active 2026 mining-title renewal mandate
LATEST PAPERS
Insights
Share
Resource Development Outlook 2026
Build
Choosing the Delivery System
Explore
From Signal to Target
PRACTICE
Sustainability
- Rigour
- Respect
- Restoration
We apply the mitigation hierarchy on every mandate.
PEOPLE
Careers
Consequential work, close to the ground.
Evidence before assertion