Same team, across the life of the asset.
Three lifecycle phases: design and feasibility, build and commission, sustain and optimise. Independent review and advice for boards, lenders and investors. Delivered by the same multidisciplinary team across mine design, metallurgy, infrastructure, energy and environmental work.
Feasibility authored by the people who will build and operate the plant.
Westech delivers technical study work from commodity thesis through to bankable feasibility. Scoping studies, pre-feasibility, definitive and bankable feasibility, reported to JORC and NI 43-101 standards. The engineers who author the study are the engineers available to carry the project through design, construction and operation. Studies are designed for the build that follows them, not for the lender's binder.
Creditor-closure track to US$1B NPV
Westech's redevelopment study recast a distressed asset into a US$1B NPV project with a dual listing.
Care-and-maintenance to production in eighteen months
Feasibility and design work underpinned US$20.5M of redevelopment financing and US$70M of renegotiated creditor liabilities.
Plants built by the engineers who designed them.
EPC and EPCM delivery end-to-end for mining, processing, energy and site infrastructure. The same engineers who design the plant carry it through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. Modular process plant, shaft sinking, civil and structural engineering, including in high-risk, remote and extreme environments. Long-standing industry relationships and a deep network of OEMs support equipment selection, procurement and delivery.
1.2 Mt multi-metal SX/EW operation
Front-end crushing, leach, CCD and SX/EW circuits delivered for Compass Resources. Copper cathode produced for market.
7 m adit and plant rebuild, 1.4 to 2.4 Mtpa over four years
Dormant tungsten mine reopened. 5 km underground workings developed; integrated feasibility delivered alongside the build.
Operations run by the people who design plants.
Westech takes operational accountability at whichever stage an operation requires: brownfield expansion, debottlenecking, turnaround of distressed assets, or operator-on-secondment. The work is operational. Principals embedded on-site, operations rebuilt or scaled, workforces recruited and trained, management systems and reporting structures installed. Engineering continues for the life of the asset.
US$20M annual loss to US$35M annual profit in eighteen months
A loss-making operation returned to profit within eighteen months of Westech assuming operational accountability.
1 Mtpa restart at 2,400m depth, two years zero LTI, vended at £80M
Acquired for US$30M, the operation was restarted, the workforce rebuilt to a fully Fijian team, and the asset vended onto the AIM market at an £80M listing valuation.
Capital assessed by the people who build and run the assets.
Westech provides independent technical assessments for boards, lenders and investors making capital decisions. Independent technical review, technical due diligence, Competent-Person and Qualified-Person reports, and fatal-flaw analysis. Reviews are authored by senior engineers who have built and operated assets of the type under review, scoped to the decision.
Across gold, tungsten, base metals, uranium, complex sulphides and energy.
Westech has delivered independent technical reviews and due diligence for acquirers, lenders, boards and institutional investors across these commodities and energy transactions.
Pre-acquisition due diligence, project-finance fatal-flaw analysis, board-level technical assessment.
Reviews are timed to the transaction and scoped to the decision being made. Conflict checks run before engagement. Project references available on request under NDA.
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Westech International Pty Ltd
Level 17, Chifley Tower
2 Chifley Square
Sydney NSW 2000
+61 (02) 9375 2375