Nick Bell Consulting provides specialist consulting services to mine owners, contractors and the mining industry generally.

With over 35 years experience in the mining industry, Nick has extensive knowledge in open-pit planning and production, pit optimisation, owner/operator studies and tender preparation.

Nick’s main areas of expertise are technical advice and evaluation for the mining component of open pit mine projects world-wide, particularly Australia, West Africa and South America.

The service Nick provides typically involves identification of mining methods, mining options, mining rates, labour and infrastructure requirements followed by identifying and making enquiries with mining contractors, mining equipment and consumable suppliers in order to establish definitive capital and operating costs and ultimately leads to assisting with negotiation and award of contracts.