Mining & Industry Solutions
Explore our mining sector services and find out why we're the partner of choice for many.
Areas of Expertise
Metalliferous & Rare Earth Mining
Coal & Bulk Materials Handling
Mine Water Management
Process Plant Design
Mine Closure & Rehabilitation
Mine Services & Underground Infrastructure
Marine & Port Infrastructure
Rail & Haulage Infrastructure
Operations Optimisation
Services
Feasibility & Business Case Development
From concept through to detailed feasibility, we help clients evaluate options, manage risk, and build compelling business cases that maximise project value, including full pit-to-port simulation modelling to verify throughputs, revenues, and operating costs.
Project Management & Delivery
End-to-end project management covering delivery strategies, scheduling, procurement, and cost control, ensuring on-time and on-budget outcomes across all project stages.
Multi-disciplinary Engineering Design
Our team delivers FEED and detailed design for both greenfield and brownfield mining and industrial infrastructure, tailored to your project's complexity. We specialise in Process, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, and Electrical engineering, supported by extensive 2D and 3D drafting and BIM capabilities.
Owner's Engineer & Client Representation
We act as your independent technical advisor, providing design assurance, contract oversight, and stakeholder management throughout the full project lifecycle, across Process, Materials Handling, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, and Electrical disciplines.
Operations Optimisation & Simulation Modelling
We identify and unlock value in existing operations through pit-to-port simulation, debottlenecking analysis, process plant and transport optimisation, water balance modelling, and supply chain performance forecasting.
Construction Management & Site Services
Our experienced team provides construction phase design support, tender management, project controls, scheduling, and claims assistance to keep your build progressing on track.
Specialist Technical Studies
We conduct HAZOP studies and peer reviews to meet regulatory, operational, and safety requirements across complex mining and industrial environments.
Project Layout & Optimisation
We develop and refine project layouts to address stakeholder constraints, local infrastructure positioning, and constructability, combining design review and value engineering to optimise overall project outcomes.
Why choose Phronis?
Major project expertise. Independent firm agility.
Our principals have led some of Australia's most complex mining infrastructure projects. With Phronis, that senior expertise is accessible and accountable, with the responsiveness that comes from working without layers of bureaucracy.
With you from concept to commissioning
Most consultants hand off when their phase ends. We stay. Our team is structured to support every stage of a project, from early business case through to construction and operations, so nothing gets lost in translation.
We've solved this problem before
From billion dollar projects to targeted regional solutions, our team has consistently been brought in on the projects where getting it right really matters. That confidence comes from over 660 years of combined technical expertise earned across some of the world's most demanding infrastructure sectors.
Discuss your project
Connect with our engineers to explore solutions for your infrastructure challenges.
"Phronis’ technical capability, practical methodology and ability to provide defensible engineering assurance added measurable value to a high-risk, time-critical project."
Our Mining Projects
Infrastructure built to perform in real conditions
