Services

Carrak Consulting provides friendly, professional & efficient services to industry, corporate & private clients

Professional Support

Project management
Permitting & compliance monitoring
Environmental Management Systems
E&S capacity building
Consultee comment – policy & technical guidance
Industry best practice panels
Technical process & service development
Sustainable & Best Available Techniques
Responsible mineral exploration & development
Peer & independent technical review
Coordination of environmental baseline surveys

Technical Reporting

Environmental audits
Feasibility Studies – E&S chapters
Gap analyses & action plans
Environmental management and monitoring plans
Environmental impact, risk & liability assessments
Due Diligence and CPRs
Mining instability assessments
Land contamination risk assessments

Research & Development

Mineral and environmental projects
Geo-data development, GIS integration & modelling
Mining industry feedback – EU projects
Remote sensing
Mine water geothermal screening
Mineral resource potential

Together with our Associates, we offer a tailored range of consultancy services, professional support & industry-standard products

Consultancy Service Examples

Using Satellites to Detect Pollution from Old Mines

by Kathy Hicks | Dec 2, 2020

An exciting project involving a collaboration of Cornwall Mining Alliance members is looking at ways to track the pollution of rivers by mines using remote sensing. The team is testing the technique on abandoned mine sites in Cornwall. Most environmental monitoring...

Can Abandoned Cornish Mines Provide Low-cost, Low-carbon Heating?

by Kathy Hicks | Feb 4, 2019

Carrak Consulting Ltd has co-developed a screening tool to identify flooded mines in Cornwall that are potential geothermal reservoirs and could be used to heat buildings. Heat comprises almost half of the UK’s energy demand, producing about one third of our...

Finding Abandoned Mine Workings using LiDAR

by Kathy Hicks | Jan 11, 2019

Carrak Consulting has worked with Cornwall Consultants Ltd and Camborne School of Mines (University of Exeter) to secure and develop a collaborative research project, funded by Aerospace Cornwall. The project has investigated ways to use airborne LiDAR with Earth...