Consulting & Advisory · Base Metals · Africa
Technical and Commercial Advisory for Base Metals Across Africa
Samitac Consulting Services works alongside mining operators, developers and investors on copper, cobalt, gold and battery metals — from the pit and the plant through to offtake and market.
African jurisdictions served
Core consulting pillars
Years of combined operating experience per team
Business day to first response
What we do
Four consulting pillars, built around operating reality
Each pillar is delivered by practitioners who have worked in African base-metals operations — not generalists writing from a distance.
Mining & Processing Consulting
Mine planning, operational review, metallurgical and plant performance work delivered by practitioners who have run base-metals operations.
Technical Personnel & Secondment
Contract geologists, metallurgists, mine planners and plant superintendents placed on site for defined scopes and defined periods.
Commercial & Market Advisory
Offtake structuring, concentrate and cathode pricing, treatment and refining terms, logistics routes and market positioning.
Project Development Support
Scoping through feasibility: study management, capital estimation, permitting pathways and readiness for investment decisions.
Commodity focus
Copper, cobalt, gold and battery metals
Deep familiarity with the value chains that matter most on the continent — and with the buyers, refiners and specifications at the end of them.
Copper
Concentrate, cathode, SX-EW
Cobalt
Hydroxide, by-product recovery
Gold
CIL, gravity, doré
Battery metals
Nickel · Lithium · Manganese · Graphite
On the ground
Advice that survives contact with the plant
Our work starts with the ore body, the circuit and the cost sheet. We review what is actually happening on site, quantify the gap to design, and set out a sequenced plan your team can execute — with our specialists seconded alongside them where that helps.
Where we work
Southern and Central Africa, with a Zambian base
Direct capability in Zambia and the DRC copper-cobalt belt, extending across the region through established partners and associates.
Selected jurisdiction
Zambia
Transaction verification · Site inspection · Mineral validation · Counterparty checks · Payment-control support
Coverage subject to local partner arrangements and jurisdictional requirements. Not every service is available in every jurisdiction on every engagement.
Zambia
Home base. Copperbelt and North-Western Province operations.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Copper-cobalt belt: processing, product quality and sourcing.
Zimbabwe
Gold, lithium and PGM technical and commercial work.
Botswana
Copper-silver belt and coal project support.
Namibia
Base and industrial minerals, logistics via Walvis Bay.
South Africa
Engineering depth, manganese, chrome and gold engagements.
Mozambique
Graphite, heavy sands and Beira corridor logistics.
Tanzania
Gold, nickel and critical-minerals project support.
Start a conversation
Tell us about the project. We will come back with a proposal.
Share the commodity, the stage and the problem you need solved. A senior consultant responds within one business day.