Mining, Rare Earth Metals & Minerals

Integrated Programs to Support your Mining Project.

Mining, Rare Earth Metals & Minerals

Permitting, environmental monitoring, reclamation, and closure for aggregate, metal, and critical mineral operations in British Columbia.

How we support mining clients

We support aggregate and mineral mining clients from exploration and permit application, ammendments, through operations, monitoring, expansion, reclamation, and closure.

Our experience and history in mine closure planning extends beyond BC to Alberta, working closely with CNRL and Cenovus, developing project level conservation and reclamations plans. (PLCRCP)

We plan, prepare and write technical submissions are written for the BC Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals (MCMM) and Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (WLRS), with parallel approvals coordinated through MOT, MOE, and DFO where required.

Working closely with regulators, to “bundle” application packages to include the NoW and the LoO combined with Community and First Nation consulting and engagement planning to achieive economies of scale; saving time and reducing cost and risk.

Services

  • Major Mines Permit applications, amendments, and renewals
  • Notice of Work (NoW) and aggregate operations permitting
  • Mine Permit Reclamation Reports and Annual Reclamation Reports
  • Environmental Impact Assessment and baseline studies
  • Surface and groundwater monitoring programs
  • Sediment and erosion control plans
  • Tailings, waste rock, and stockpile management support
  • Reclamation planning, revegetation, and closure
  • Riparian, fish habitat, and DFO authorization support
  • Stakeholder and First Nations consultation support
  • Hydrotechnical Services 
  • Geotechnical assessments and investigations
  • Geomorphology 
  • Geological Services
  • GIS and Geo-spatial analytics (Multi-criteria analysis) 
  • Archeological Services 

 

Sub-sectors

  • Aggregate — sand, gravel, and crushed stone quarries
  • Hard rock metal — gold, copper, and base metals
  • Coal and industrial minerals
  • Phosphorite and rare earth elements
  • Exploration and advanced exploration projects
  • Reclamation and closure of legacy operations

 

Selected mining experience

  • Electa Gold PEM 100 Quarry — environmental assessment, permitting, water quality monitoring
  • Hillsborough Resources Bingay Creek Coal — environmental assessment, permitting
  • Homegold / Fertoz International phosphorite operations — environmental assessment, erosion and sediment control
  • Crown Resources Buckhorn Mine — post-mining vegetation and amphibian monitoring
  • Victor Diamond Mine — project expansion and closure
  • Aggregate quarry expansion permitting with the BC WLRS.

We support your project at every stage

Our Partnership network comprises professionals in the REE mining sector including, Science and Technology experts, Geologists, Lab-technicians, Quality control and materials testing, Project owners and operators, Market sector leaders and Project Managers, well-versed in mining exploration, recovery, processing and refining. We can guide your project through each stage in the process from partnership and project sourcing, project feasibility studies and assessment, regulatory and permitting to equipment sourcing, mineral exploration and recovery. 

UpstreamMidstreamDownstream End products
1. Sourcing, permitting Mining operations3. Hydrometallurgy5. Metals smelting, alloys7. Equipment manufacturing
2. ORE Concentration4. REE materials separation6. Magnet manufacturing8. Strategic sourcing

Mining and Rare Earth Metals Projects