Lycopodium’s process group has a wide range of experience to undertake the development of new processes and determine the viability of new and existing processes, including:

• Planning, design, supervision and interpretation of laboratory, bench-scale and pilot-scale test programmes.
• Flowsheet development, mass and energy balances, process modeling and process design specification.
• Management and co-ordination of necessary skills in the production of studies.  These studies are done at different levels of confidence depending on the stage of investigation and are usually defined as scoping study, prefeasibility study and detailed feasibility study.
• Evaluation and selection of new and alternative processes at the conceptual and prefeasibility study stages to determine the viability of new and existing processes.
• Comminution Circuit Design using specialist database and in-house software to design crushing and grinding circuits and predict their performance.
• Hydrometallurgy for base metals.
• Design, construction management and operation of pilot plant installations.
• Plant audits, debottlenecking evaluations and staged development planning.
• Environmental compliance processes, e.g. cyanide recovery and destruction, arsenic fixation and disposal, metal precipitation and water management.