Independent judgement before capital is committed.
Core Consultants helps investors, mining companies and industrial groups evaluate mineral and metal markets, mining projects and supply-chain opportunities before significant capital and commercial commitments are made.
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Focused, independent analysis for organisations making investment, market-entry and strategic decisions across the natural resources value chain.
Commercial Due Diligence
Independent assessment of market demand, pricing, customers, competition, processing routes and the commercial assumptions underpinning a project or transaction.
Opportunity Screening
Structured screening and benchmarking of mining opportunities to identify material risks, challenge assumptions and determine whether further diligence is warranted.
Critical Minerals Strategy
Commodity outlooks, market-entry studies, supply-chain analysis, processing strategy, strategic sourcing and geopolitical risk assessment.
Executive Briefings & Training
Board briefings, investment-committee presentations and executive workshops that make complex mining and commodity issues clear and decision-useful.
Commodity knowledge. Investment discipline. Independent judgement.
Core Consultants is a founder-led mining, commodities and critical minerals advisory firm established in 2009.
From bulk ores and alloys to critical and strategic minerals, we provide independent market intelligence and commercial due diligence across the mining and metals value chain.
Our work sits at the intersection of commodity markets, project economics, mining investment and strategic due diligence. We do more than describe a market: we identify which assumptions determine value, where the evidence is weak and what decision-makers need to know before proceeding.
Every mandate is led by Lara Smith and supported, where required, by a specialist network spanning geology, metallurgy, processing, engineering and finance.
About Lara SmithIndependent research on the markets shaping capital, industry and geopolitics.
The Metal Intel Strategic Brief Series combines supply-demand and price outlooks with project, processing and investment analysis across critical and strategic minerals.
“Core Consultants' industry relationships and presence on the ground offers good value-add. It is refreshing to be able to reference an independent consultant who is willing to say it like it is.”Andrew Snowdowne · Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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