Western Mining Services LLC

We help our clients deliver valuable mineral exploration results that grow companies.

We are in business to provide the best in geoscientific and risk management advice and services to mineral explorers globally. Our goal for our clients is mineral exploration success.

Our plan and strategy are simple – WMS is here to help the mining industry prepare now for the next round of growth and accompanying increase in demand for quality mineral exploration results. To that end, we offer a range of essential services:

• Advice on exploration strategy development both brownfield and greenfield
• Review and critique of mineral exploration strategies, plans and programs
• Assistance with the organizational structures
• Metallogenic framework and mineral targeting studies that deliver viable greenfield targets
• Brownfield and near-mine studies and target generation
• Support for target validation at all scales
• Technical due diligence and new opportunity analysis
• Deal terms review and evaluation
• Commercial risk analysis

We have a proven track record:

• Over the last ten years we have helped more than fifty companies pursue exploration programs and opportunities globally.
• The resulting rewards include the largest gold-copper skarn discovery in the Americas and major nickel and gold discoveries in Australia.
• Over 500 students have attended our popular Senior Exploration Management (SEM) Course which, by many accounts, ranks as “one of the best”.
• We offer the SEM Course annually in Perth WA and Denver CO, and we also offer the Course in-house for clients who want a course tailored to their strategy and exploration program.
• We are developing an on-line Mineral Exploration Management Manual that will track the SEM Course and that will quickly become a unique valuable resource for exploration groups worldwide.

Our WMS Team is experienced, focused and eager to help you achieve your mineral exploration Mission.

Our Mission

We formed Western Mining Services (WMS) in 2005 and our mission has always been simple: