Hello!
Welcome to Gwanda Consulting
Your trusted partner in metallurgical engineering, project, and operational support, consistently exceeding your expectations.
We are committed to delivering exceptional engineering expertise tailored to the unique needs of each client, ensuring our client’s sustainable growth and success.
QIT Madagascar Minerals mine, Madagascar
What we do, and what we're about
Andoom beneficiation plant
We specialize in materials handling, mineral processing, and extractive metallurgy.
Our expertise includes processing design, covering both flowsheet and workflow development.
We can support the entire engineering process, from conceptualization through to final engineering, as well as operational readiness planning and commissioning and handover.
Rössing Uranium Mine tailings storage facility paddy preparation
We excel in both brownfields (expansion and equipment integration) and greenfields (new projects) development.
Our services include financial modelling and options analysis for projects.
We enhance existing processing plant operations through debottlenecking and efficiency improvement initiatives.
We conduct technical reviews and due diligence surveys.
Rössing Uranium Mine pilot heap leaching pad preparation
Our technology tracking and recommendations help keep you and your project ahead in the profitability race.
We specialise in Net Zero Carbon Pathways modelling, planning, development, and implementation support.
Let us assist you with decarbonisation strategy, scheduling (including cashflow analysis), and policy implementation.
We provide processing operations support, including training for operators and metallurgists, and we offer metallurgical staff mentoring and support.
What we do better
than anyone else
Why and when you should use us
Our core DNA is to offer a diverse range of services that encompass a wide scope, including our specialised expertise in decarbonisation.
What sets us apart is our approach to problem-solving, where creativity, active engagement and broad experience drive our design process.
Leveraging our extensive network of subject matter experts, we can laser-focus on addressing any challenges you may encounter.
This approach, blending our own strengths with those of our network, ensures that we deliver tailor-made solutions perfectly suited to your needs.
Aerial view of Weipa bauxite mine’s operational areas, with rehabilitated areas interspersed throughout
While we don't focus on modelling or day-to-day operations directly, our network covers these areas, and we offer support to ensure seamless implementation and ongoing success.
When should you engage us? As soon as you realise you are facing a challenge, either in the design of a flowsheet for your particular orebody, or for retrofitting a new technology into an existing operation, or when facing the mountain that is the drive to decarbonise your operations, or for helping your operation achieve nameplate capacity or efficiency.
We can move mountains, but we prefer to do it early on as profitability and positive cash flow resumption is key to sustainability.
About Us
Brian Gerrell
Brian Gerrell is an extractive metallurgist with over 35 years of experience designing, building, commissioning, and operating metallurgical processing plants.
Brian has an NHD in Extractive Metallurgy, issued by Johannesburg University in 1987, and an MBA issued by the University of Stellenbosch in 2009. He is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM).
See a non-comprehensive list of my projects and achievements below.