ALTA Metallurgical Services

ALTA Metallurgical Services (ALTA) was established by metallurgical consultant Alan Taylor in 1985 to serve the worldwide mining, minerals and metallurgical industries.

Alan has 40+ years’ experience in the metallurgical, mineral and chemical processing industries in Australasia, New Zealand, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. ALTA offers a wide range of services and resources to the metallurgical industry.

Consulting: High-level metallurgical and project development consulting.

Conferences:ALTA conferences are world-class annual metallurgical events and a leading platform for innovation.

Short Courses: Practically-oriented short courses on topics including treatment of nickel laterites, copper ore leaching, uranium ore processing, copper SX-EW, heap leaching and solvent extraction.

Publications: Proceedings and manuals from ALTA conferences, seminars and short courses.

MetBytes: Free technical articles offering metallurgical commentary and insights.

Free Library: The ALTA Free Library includes proceedings from ALTA 1995-2017 Nickel-Cobalt-Copper, Uranium-REE and Gold-PM conferences for free download (1440+ papers). A selection of papers from ALTA 2019 and 2018 is also available. The library is expanded regularly, providing a major ongoing resource to the industry

Primary Activity

Mining CompanyMetallurgical consultant