About

EVIDENCE

At a glance

1. Combined decades of senior international experience
2. A US$10-billion-class integrated iron-ore program assessed
3. A ~1,550-page Category-A environmental and social assessment authored
4. Twelve complete regulatory dossiers (permit applications and renewals) under mandate
5. A 24-month, three-season environmental baseline synthesized
6. 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.

WHO WE ARE

Purpose, values & positioning

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.

The register of the firm is understated confidence: magnitude without bragging, French and English institutional fluency, the voice of a group of independent international experts. Technical integrity is treated as a brand behavior, honest-limitation language included, because every mandate we show is expected to survive diligence.

Our consultants’ experience includes lender due diligence on world-class copper-cobalt and zinc assets in Africa, Europe and Asia on behalf of international banks and investors; advising national governments on mining law, licensing regimes and the establishment of a geological survey; exploration programs directed across Africa and Southeast Europe with local offices established in-country; and exploration project evaluation across more than 30 countries.

INTEGRITY

Governance & integrity

• Ethics. Anti-corruption compliance culture across FCPA, UK Bribery Act and Sapin II frameworks; data-acquisition costs passed through at direct cost with zero resale margin; the firm operates no permits and holds no equity in the projects it assesses.
• HSE. With field crews in remote terrain, safety always top of mind: field method, camp discipline and journey management are engineered before mobilization.
• Quality assurance. Evidence-grade honesty as method: study-class discipline, referral of anomalous data to certified ISO 17025 laboratories, and legally opposable e-signed deliverables auditable from raw field record to ministerial signature.
• Indigenous & community relations. Community-embedded fieldwork: riverain consultation and local-guide recruitment built into field method itself, majority-local employment commitments, FPIC practice.

STANDARDS

Assurance & standards

the CRIRSCO-family codes (JORC 2012, SAMREC, PERC) and the CIM Definition Standards incorporated by NI 43-101

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.

CONTROL

Practice Assurance

EXPERTS

Experts by role

EXPLORE

Practice systems