Global consultancy firm AMC Consultants (AMC) is dedicated to helping miners find smarter ways to unearth hidden business value. They help mining leaders evaluate opportunities, solve hidden productivity challenges, and improve performance across the mining cycle.

Since 1983, AMC have helped miners evaluate potential mining projects or investments and develop world-class mining operations, while its advisory team has delivered more than $5-billion in bottom-line growth opportunities.

Having worked on over 10 000 projects for more than 1 800 clients in 111 countries across 60 commodities, its global team has seen most challenges. And chances are, it has created a smarter way to solve them supported by AMC’s Smart Data System™. It was built over 20 years by mining professionals who wanted to understand drivers of excellence in mine performance, using genuinely comparable or ‘like-for-like’ cost and productivities. This is what makes the largest site-sourced benchmarking data set in the world also the most valuable.

Their team of more than 180 has grown steadily in number, capability and expertise. It includes world-renowned experts in their respective fields, working from their offices in Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

AMC Consultant’s services include:

Advisory
AMC Advisory is a specialised team of AMC Consultants focused on providing whole of mine optimisation advice. This includes 10x Performance Diagnostics™, Hill of Value™ Strategy Optimisation and Corporate Consultancy. 

Mining 
Innovative, practical solutions to complex engineering problems based on operational experience, industry insight and up-to-date performance data.

Geotechnical Engineering 
Unrivalled geotechnical expertise and proven success across the full range of mining methods and deposit styles.

Geology 
Reliable resource statements written by their experts in international resource reporting standards.

Predictive Geometallurgy™
Understand orebody variability, improve design and scheduling, reduce volatility, improve recoveries and reduce operating costs.

Mine Sustainabilty
Accurate, first-principles cost estimates and financial liability assessments for effective Life-of-Mine and Life-of-Asset planning, including integration of closure activities and provision management.

Business Improvement 
World-class experts using a proven process to ensure you are extracting every dollar of profit from your operation.

Coal & Energy 
Tools that address the global demand for varied energy solutions developed by geological, geotechnical and mining specialists.

Metallurgy 
Unique multidisciplinary approach to optimising mining and ore processing operations, from in-situ deposit to final product.

Engineering Services 
Multidisciplinary approach to technical challenges including backfill, ventilation and mechanical engineering.

Feasibility Studies 
Management and coordination of studies that are trusted by the world’s major investment banks and mining companies, underpinning billions of dollars of investments.

Training 
​​​​​​​Practical training delivered by leading experts, to extend the skills of technical and operations staff.

Watch a video clip in which AMC Consultants Director and Executive Lead for Advisory Derek du Preez speaks to Mining Weekly at Investing in African Mining Indaba 2025.