Core Consultants
Marketing Services in Johannesburg

These services include training, modelling, research and satisfaction surveys. Core Consultants, based in South Africa, is an independent mining consultancy company which offers services to the international mining and metallurgical industries.

The report was a part time exercise, undertaken as a personal challenge. In June that year, Lara quit her job, registered Core Consultants and eight years on, Core has completed more than 60 market studies, across 5 continents and provided insights in over 30 commodity markets. Core Consultants was first asked to present at the African Mining Indaba as a Keynote Speaker. The topic was an outlook for Minor Metals and Ferroalloys. This presentation provided Core Consultants the forum to showcase its abilities as a new consultancy in Africa and Globally. This project helped establish Core Consultants as a credible consultancy based in Africa and capable of delivering studies to an international standard. The topic was on infrastructure in the DRC and the challenges resource companies face in moving material. It was at this conference that Core Consultants was first able to showcase its knowledge on the DRC as well as on the cobalt market. Core Consultants authored the report, and Metal Pages assisted with the publishing and marketing. At the time, only Chinese reports were available and market knowledge in the West was relatively limited. Core Consultants, as an independent, privately owned consultancy, with no equity stake in any mining or related enterprise, is able to deliver superior objective market research. As such, within a short space of time, Core Consultants is internationally recognised as a trustworthy, unbiased, authority on commodity markets. Core Consultants has always been a multi-commodity focused company. Our analysis over the years has included bulk commodities, base commodities,ores, minor and critical elements. Our definitive, broad market view enables us to understand the relationships and interplay between various commodity markets and identify the specific drivers that will impact these markets, whilst our specific in-depth analysis enables us to better understand the individual commodity value chains. Core Consultants' expertise in understanding commodity markets, as well as our rigorous and systematic approach to research, has earned the company the respect of many industry professionals. Our approach integrates both desk-top research and primary interviews across the various sectors that we cover. In this way, we are able to stay abreast of the latest trends and market opinions and balance those views against our own investigations. Mining is a global business and clients seek out Core Consultants' services from all across the world. Our clients range from investment banks, legal firms, end-users such as technology and engineering companies, trading firms and producers. Servicing clients across the entire commodity supply chain places Core Consultants in the unique position of understanding the various incentives and requirements of each party and the potential impact on commodity markets. Sofi has 20 years of experience in the mining industry, specializing in diamonds and providing technical geological expertise from early stage exploration planning through to evaluation and feasibility. Her role is to execute portfolio trades in the western securities markets for Foord’s Luxembourg-domiciled. John has over thirty years’ experience as a chemical and process engineer. Winsor Lewis has worked in the mining industry throughout the world for almost forty years and has been an associate of Core Consultants since Core Consultants’ expertise in understanding commodity markets, as well as our rigorous and systematic approach to research, with emphasis on identifying and fulfilling our clients’ needs, has earned the company the respect of many industry professionals.