Whittle Consulting reflects on a busy 2014 despite challenging environment

In its end of year newsletter, Gerald Whittle, CEO of Whittle Consulting states they he recognises “it has been a tough year across the industry globally. We have also been reassured that the current environment has encouraged our clients to prototype the methods and principles underpinning Enterprise Optimisation to make a bigger impact on tier assets, than ever before.”

This includes Whittle Consulting’s partnership with JKTech (University of Queensland) and other alliance partners which it says are growing thoughout the world. “Our mission to fundamentally transform the economic and sustainability signature of our client’s assets is becoming a reality. Together, we have developed and delivered a combination Enterprise Optimisation with Sustainable Operations (SUSOP) on one of Ivanhoe Mines projects. We have also applied the ‘Green Line Mining’ principles to one of PanAust’s projects in South America and are currently working together in Saudi Arabia.”

With Green Line Mining, the mission is “to transform our client’s assets economic and sustainability signature is real. In collaboration with JKTech we are able to bring proven Best Practices to mine sites to significantly improve operational performance and to PFS stage projects.” The company is also being increasingly asked to review potential acquisition targets for PE funds across all geographies. The dip in market capitalisations of many miners has seen many look for capital from private sources. “We look forward to continuing our support of PE funds in providing fiercely independent views on value creation opportunities within the assets purchased.”

Finally, the Whittle Consulting “Money Mining” seminar has now had over 1800 participants globally in 24 locations throughout the world. In 2015, the group plans to work with the large mining houses to bring this seminar to all of their global employees as part of their in-house training offering.