Leaders in Minerals & Metals Processing
Welcome to Consulmet. Established in 1993, we are an independent engineering group specialising in designing and constructing turnkey processing plants for minerals and metals. Our approach combines practicality with innovation, offering efficient solutions that meet the operational and business requirements of our customers.
We have an extensive track record of delivering both greenfield and brownfield projects. With our international reach extending across Africa, Australia, North America, and Asia, we deliver projects for major producers, developers, and explorers.
At Consulmet, we believe in creating strong partnerships with our customers. We bring our experience, expertise, and dedication to every project, ensuring we deliver quality and value at every stage. Whether you are an established producer or a developer, we are here to help you realise your objectives.
Our Capability
Our speciality is the design, construction, operation and maintenance of turnkey process plants. Consulmet's turnkey offering delivers a fast-tracked, complete processing solution.
Consulmet is a world leader in Dense Media Separation (DMS) technology. We developed our first DMS modules in 2006 and now have dozens operating in mines worldwide for major producers.
Consulmet's core expertise in gravity separation extends to designing and constructing plants for battery metals and minerals, including copper, lead, lithium, nickel and zinc.
Consulmet has designed and built cutting-edge iron ore beneficiation plants using various upgrade technologies, including super-high dense media separation, spirals and magnetic separation.
Consulmet has designed and built concentrators and pre-concentrators for copper, lead, nickel and zinc using elutriation, flotation, spiral concentration and DMS.
Consulmet is a world leader in diamond processing. We have designed and built complete diamond plants ranging in capacity from 1,500 tph down to small, skid-mounted bulk sampling plants.
Our Services
Recent Projects
Pre-Feasibility Study for a 620 tph phosphate crushing and sorting circuit
Design and construction of a 160 tph Super-High Dense Medium (SHDMS) Separation Plant
Our Products
Consulmet's 65 tph two-stage lithium Dense Media Separation (DMS) plant is a rapidly deployed solution for lithium recovery or pre-concentration. Our unique solution eliminates the need for on-site poured concrete and is available in sixteen (16) weeks ex-works South Africa.
Consulmet offers a complete range of in-house designed and built DMS/DMC modules and plants for battery metals, base metals, iron ore, coal, diamonds and industrial minerals.
Our ore sorting plants incorporate lessons from over a decade of designing, building and operating sorting plants.
Consulmet pioneered the use of XRT machines in full-scale production diamond plants. We now offer a complete modularised solution for the recovery of large diamonds.
News & Media
May 2023 - In-House DMS Test Plant Available for Pilot Testwork
June 2022 - Consulmet’s DRC office: Starting to reap rewards
April 2022 - Mining Elites in Africa 2022 Showcase: Consulmet
January 2021 - Mining Elites in Africa - COVID-19 Didn't Keep Consulmet Down
December 2018 - Consulmet: diamond process engineering technology front runner