Stratum Resources provides technical, market and strategic advisory services across a broad range of industrial, critical and specialty minerals. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the connection between mineral characteristics, processing requirements, customer specifications and regional market demand.
Market and technical advisory covering silica sand, lump quartz, quartz flour, high-purity quartz and specialist silica products.
Applications include:
Stratum assists with market assessment, customer identification, product positioning, specification review, processing options and Australia–Asia supply-chain development.
Experience covers hydrous kaolin, calcined kaolin, metakaolin, halloysite, ball clay and kaolin-derived alumina products.
Principal markets include:
Assignments may include product characterisation, processing assessment, ceramic testing programs, market studies and customer qualification.
Stratum has extensive knowledge of rare-earth and heavy-mineral-sand markets, including:
Services include supply-demand analysis, downstream-processing assessment, market-entry planning, potential customer identification and evaluation of value-added product opportunities.
Market and technical work covers limestone, quicklime, hydrated lime, dolomite, calcined dolomite, ground calcium carbonate and precipitated calcium carbonate.
Applications include:
Stratum evaluates deposit suitability, processing routes, customer specifications, logistics and regional demand.
Experience includes magnesite, caustic calcined magnesia, dead-burned magnesia, fused magnesia, talc and related refractory raw materials.
Markets assessed include:
Stratum advises on barite, bentonite and related minerals used in:
Work may include product-specification assessment, API market studies, processing evaluation and regional supplier or customer identification.
Advisory capability covers selected critical-mineral and energy-transition supply chains, including:
The focus is on market demand, processing capability, downstream value addition, customer qualification and supply-chain resilience.
Stratum assesses opportunities to recover value from mineral-processing residues, mine tailings and industrial by-products.
Potential applications include:
These studies consider mineralogy, chemistry, processing, environmental performance, logistics, competing materials and realistic market value.
