Strategic Insight for Critical Minerals Success.

Minconsulting is a specialised consulting firm with deep expertise in the rare earths and critical minerals sector.

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Minconsult

Minconsulting is a specialised consulting firm with deep expertise in the rare earths and critical minerals sector.

We provide strategic, technical, and operational insights to help clients optimise their projects at every stage, from exploration to processing and market development.

With a comprehensive understanding of global rare earth markets and industry trends, Minconsulting is your trusted partner for success in this rapidly evolving field.

Minconsulting helps clients effectively position and market their rare earth products to secure long-term offtake opportunities.

APPROACH

Why Choose Minconsulting?

Our deep understanding of the rare earths sector, combined with years of experience, enables us to offer solutions that address the unique challenges in this field. With over 20 years’ experience in international marketing, we understand how to position products into global markets and navigate complex offtake and supply-chain structures.

Specialised Expertise

Hands-on experience in rare earths and critical minerals, combined with a deep understanding of both technical and market dynamics.

End-to-End Solutions

We provide holistic solutions, from technical process engineering to strategic marketing, ensuring your project is optimised for both operational excellence and market success.

Global Reach

Extensive networks across industries and regions, giving you access to the right partners, buyers, and resources in the rare earths sector. We have an extensive network across Japan, Korea, Europe and the USA.

Project Data Base

We have also compiled a comprehensive data base of rare earth projects, including resource, processing, capacity and product quality information for benchmarking.

Diverse Offering

While our primary focus area is rare earths, we also have technical and commercial background in other commodities, including mineral sands and battery minerals supply chains.

Marketing

Extensive experience in marketing consultancy in industrial mineral products where end product application performance is critical.

Experience

Our understanding of mineral attributes and end product requirements has enabled the company to place clients’ products into unique and niche market applications. The company has significant experience in the research, development and marketing of commodity and novel mineral products.

SERVICES

Key Areas of Focus

Strategic Advisory

We guide clients through every stage of their rare earth projects, providing insights on industry trends, market opportunities, and risks.

Geopolitical Insight

Rare earth markets are heavily influenced by geopolitical factors. We advise on supply chain risks, regulatory hurdles, and trade restrictions, ensuring your business navigates these complexities smoothly.

Traceability, Sustainability & ESG

Implementing best practices for sustainable mining, environmental management, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) standards that apply to end users.

Rare Earth Applications

Electric Vehicles: Consulting on the demand for rare earths like neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium and Terbium for permanent magnets used in electric vehicle motors.

Renewable Energy: Expertise in rare earth elements critical to wind turbine generators and other clean energy technologies.

Defence and Electronics: Strategic consulting for rare earth materials used in high-tech defence systems and consumer electronics.

Process Engineering Services

Minconsulting provides independent process engineering and technical advisory services across the rare earth value chain, supporting projects from beneficiation through extraction, refining, and separation and metallisation.

Our work focuses on concept and scoping studies, technical reviews, due diligence, and optimisation programs, with particular strength in advancing projects through pilot, demonstration, and DFS stages.

Minconsulting also delivers objective assessments of process assumptions and recoveries used in engineering and cost models and works closely with client teams and external consultants through technical workshops, reviews, and decision-support documentation.

Our approach is practical, independent, and grounded in real-world rare earth processing experience, helping clients reduce technical risk and progress projects with confidence.

Due Diligence

At Minconsulting, our technical due diligence focuses on validating the fundamentals that matter most in rare earth developments, including resource quality, mineralogy, metallurgical performance, processing routes, scalability, cost assumptions, and product marketability.

A properly executed technical due diligence process is a critical decision-making tool. It identifies hidden risks, challenges optimistic assumptions, and tests whether a project’s technical foundations are robust enough to support financing, offtake, or development decisions. When conducted early and thoroughly, technical due diligence can save millions of dollars in misallocated capital and years of avoidable delays.

Project Benchmarking

Independent benchmarking of ASX-listed REE projects to support strategic positioning and investment decision-making, including comparative review of resources, metallurgical pathways, development milestones, and key value drivers/risks.

Preparation of peer comparisons across ASX-listed REE developers, covering including resource size/grade, mineralogy, metallurgy/testwork outcomes, processing routes, recoveries, product strategy, development status, key project metrics and project maturity (scoping/PFS/DFS).

Analysing competitor activities in the rare earths market to provide insights into competitive positioning and areas of opportunity.

Market Intelligence and Analysis

Global Market Trends: Deep knowledge of global rare earth demand, including regional market drivers, supply constraints, and the development of robust supply–demand models informed by years of direct exposure across major rare earth regions, combined with a detailed understanding of the magnet value chain, downstream manufacturing processes, key industry participants, and end-users of rare earth products.

Strategic Pricing: Developing pricing strategies that reflect the current market conditions and the specific value of intermediate rare earth products and individual rare earth elements. Pricing mechanisms evaluations. Advising on Rare earth product quality and price trade-offs, and product positioning in the market.

Market Strategy

Sales and Distribution Channels: Identifying and building relationships with key buyers in industries such as automotive OEM’s, offshore wind energy, magnet makers, separators. Marketing expertise with a large network of end users across Europe, Japan and Korea and the US.
Marketing studies and assessments developing marketing strategies to maximise project value, considering quality vs price and resource trade-offs
Market studies, including assessments of regional product values, are tailored to customer specific requirements and global locations.

Long-Term Contracts: Facilitating long-term supply agreements with end users and governments to secure Debt financing. Terms sheets and offtake agreement templates and Contract Structuring Assistance in securing long-term supply contracts.