Australian Metallurgical & Mineral Testing Consultants
AMMTEC was established in 1979 and has steadily grown to become one of the largest metallurgical and mineral testing consultancies in the world. The Company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1994.
Metallurgical testing consultancies distinguish themselves from mineral assay laboratories by employing testwork processes which require far higher resources of skilled staff and facilities. Accordingly, unlike the mineral assay industry, there is only a limited number of comprehensive metallurgical facilities world wide.
AMMTEC's success in this niche market is attributable to a philosophy of creating the highest possible service levels in terms of providing accurate and timely testwork coupled with extremely high levels of interpretation and reporting. This has been achieved as a result of creating a core of skilled and experienced specialists equipped with an extensive range of testing facilities.
AMMTEC's clientele are diverse and include many of Australia's major mining groups in addition to a number of emerging resource companies. AMMTEC has established a reputation for quality and innovation. AMMTEC's reputation has attracted work to AMMTEC from multi-national mining groups with projects located throughout the world. Overseas contracts have provided an important contribution to AMMTEC's earnings in recent years.
Consideration of a typical development cycle of a mineral resource provides an appreciation of the role metallurgical consultancies play in the resources sector. Following completion of the first phase of development, the identification and measurement of the resource, the second phase involves development of a plan as to how best to develop the resource. At the outset this requires an exact understanding of how the ore body will respond to various treatment routes on a commercial scale. Only once this information is available can mine planning and development and plant design proceed.
AMMTEC, through laboratory and large scale testing of ore samples taken from the resource, provides advice as to how the ore will respond to extractive processing.
AMMTEC commenced operation with iron ore testwork and even today Australia's large iron ore mining companies remain among the largest of AMMTEC's individual clients.
From an iron ore beginning AMMTEC has steadily expanded its testing facilities to an extent where it is now one of the very few metallurgical consultancies world wide to offer a complete and comprehensive testwork service.
