Project Management in Mineral Process Engineering

Most project management books are written for generic industry. This one is written for mineral processing.

A flotation plant, a CIL circuit, or a comminution expansion does not run to the same playbook as a commercial building or a software project. Long-lead mills and crushers drive the critical path. Metallurgical uncertainty drives risk contingency. A missed tie-in window during a brownfield shutdown can cost more in lost production than the construction work itself.

This book is the practitioner's handbook for delivering these projects — written by a metallurgical consultant with over thirty years of experience in gold processing and mineral process engineering, who has run greenfield builds and brownfield tie-ins from feasibility study through to handover.

INSIDE THIS BOOK

• The full project lifecycle from exploration through study gates, construction, commissioning, and closure — and where process engineering sits in the chain
• Greenfield and brownfield delivery treated as genuinely different disciplines, each with its own risk profile, planning approach, and contracting logic
• WBS, critical-path scheduling, AACE cost estimate classes, and earned value management — all grounded in minerals-specific examples
• FIDIC and NEC contracts in depth: Red, Yellow, and Silver Books; NEC Options A through F; variations, claims, extensions of time, and dispute resolution
• Construction management, isolation procedures, pre-commissioning, wet and dry commissioning, ramp-up, performance guarantee testing, and handover to operations
• Project metrics and benchmarking: phase effort planning, deliverable productivity, construction work sampling, KPI dashboard design, and capital intensity benchmarking
• Two worked case studies and a companion Excel workbook covering critical-path scheduling, earned value management, Monte Carlo contingency simulation, and project benchmarking