Lagoa Azul Project

Nexial acts as independent technical and strategic advisor to a mining group with a portfolio of mineral rights in the Amazon. The work is organised into three fronts: assessment of the mineral portfolio on a comparable basis of maturity and risk; diagnosis of the process route of the group’s main project, a gravity concentration operation with a pilot plant in operation, including reconciliation of balances, a loss map and a scale-up roadmap; and study management, with a Technical Advisory Board and preparation of the project for reporting under international standards.

In parallel, at the client’s request and to a deadline set by an investor’s schedule, Nexial carried out the preliminary technical and financial assessment of the project in three weeks. The team traced every assumption in the financial model back to its source and assigned a confidence level to each, reviewed the technical basis (resource, metallurgical recovery, ramp-up and Opex), built scenarios and sensitivities, and made a conceptual estimate of the deposit’s additional potential.