About
Operating experience, offered as consulting
Samitac Consulting Services exists to put practitioner-level technical and commercial capability alongside operators, developers and investors working in African base metals.
Our proposition
Advice from people who have run the operation
Most technical advice in the region arrives either too theoretical to act on or too shallow to trust. We work the other way round: senior practitioners spend time on site, work with your data, and hand over a plan with numbers attached — recovery points, tonnes, costs, dates.
Where the gap is capacity rather than analysis, we second specialists into your team for the period required, under your operating discipline.
Part of Samitac
How consulting complements assurance
The Samitac assurance business provides independent verification for mineral transactions — licence and ownership checks, counterparty due diligence, sampling custody and transaction controls.
Consulting sits alongside it: once an asset or transaction is understood, the questions become technical and commercial. The two businesses are run separately, with separate teams and separate records, so independence on assurance work is never compromised by consulting involvement.
Capability
The disciplines we field
Engagements are staffed by role against the scope. Named CVs are provided with every proposal.
Mining Engineers & Mine Planners
Pit and underground design, scheduling, reconciliation and productivity improvement.
Metallurgists & Process Engineers
Flowsheet development, plant optimisation, commissioning and recovery improvement.
Geologists & Resource Specialists
Exploration programmes, grade control, resource review and study input.
Commercial & Market Analysts
Offtake structuring, pricing, netback analysis and buyer engagement.
ESG & Permitting Advisers
Environmental and social requirements, permitting pathways and responsible-sourcing.
Project & Study Managers
Study governance, capital estimation, schedule and risk management.
Presence
Representative coverage
Based in Lusaka, working across Southern and Central Africa through resident consultants, associates and local partners.
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.