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Technology

Driving Industry Forward

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Unlocking Value Worldwide

Consulting and
Technical Advisory

Powering Informed Decision Making

Technology

Driving Industry Forward

Projects

Unlocking Value Worldwide

Practical and Innovative Solutions

Bear Rock Solutions delivers value to Clients via industry leading consultants, leveraging extensive experience, advanced analysis and deep technology insights.

Consulting & Technical Advisory

Well considered and carefully constructed advice developed by experts with broad experience across strategic, tactical and operational timeframes

Consulting & Technical Advisory

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Technology

Using extensive networks, technology and innovative solutions are pursued, not as standalone widgets, but as sustainable, integrated solutions

Technology

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Projects

Connecting quickly and strongly with Client requirements, projects are developed and delivered to enable value in-line with required timeframes.

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About Us

Who Are We?

BRS Director, Dr. Richard (Ted) Bearman, first worked in the minerals sector in 1985 and since then his career in the mining industry has been operationally focussed, but with a desire to deploy new and emerging approaches, where they add value. This philosophy is evident at BRS where technical publication, R&D projects and thought leadership mix with site based testwork, order of magnitude, pre-feasibility studies, Independent Peer Review and tightly focused mine/process optimisation.

Bear Rock Solutions Pty. Ltd. (BRS) is a small, privately owned business that provides high quality, independent technical services to mining clients, enhanced through the use of BRS Associates and a leveraged network – the BRS Expert Bureau.

Our aim is to provide highly effective solutions to industry challenges, via the application of well structured investigations, undertaken by seasoned professionals.

Our focus is on mining and processing projects where pragmatic solutions are required. We are committed to providing work that delivers meaningful results.

Our Approach | Applying pragmatism in combination with rigorous systems analysis:

Wide operational experience through an active Expert Bureau network and proven ability to undertake Independent Peer Reviews;

Technology focus, with the aim to identify real world value opportunities for clients;

Combine operational and analysis skills to span silos and barriers across mining, processing, maintenance and materials handling;

Apply advanced consulting tools in the form of process models in steady-state and dynamic simulations;

We deliver solutions with the support of a full system view.

Solutions from BRS are focussed on pragmatism, but at the same time we recognize the potential impact of appropriate technology. We therefore work with clients to determine the possible role and value for emerging technology deployment.

Our Team

Dr. Richard (Ted) Bearman

Director

Ted is an acknowledged expert in crushing, comminution and processing technology and has worked for 37years’ with suppliers, consultants and in mining operations. Between 1997 and 2006 Ted was the Principal Comminution Consultant for Rio Tinto, across their global operations, responsible for novel methods, process debottlenecking, performance optimization and Mine-Mill studies. Later Ted became a General Manager with an expanded portfolio. In his career, he has worked in many areas related to comminution and processing. Since establishing BRS in 2009, Ted has consulted Worldwide for over 30 companies, including numerous projects examining novel equipment and methods. Ted is one of the few independent comminution consultants specializing in the coarse end of the size reduction spectrum. In addition, he is a Chartered Engineer (Reg. No. 540115), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Fellow of the AusIMM. In 2019, Ted authored the SME Mineral Processing Handbook chapters on crushing and has also authored/co-authored a wide range of technical papers. He is also an Honorary Professor in Mineral Processing at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

David Bowman

Principal Engineer

Dave is a mechanical engineer with 25 years of experience in systems and equipment. In particular, Dave has specialized in optimization, spanning the mining and processing and capacity aspects. He has consulted widely across iron ore, copper/gold, lead/zinc & diamonds and managed a variety of logistics simulation, energy, materials handling and processing studies. Dave’s roles have included innovation, system capacity optimization (mine, rail and port), process plant concept design, commissioning & readiness through to operational capacity studies and maintenance management.

Claire Bearman

Business Manager

Claire received her professional training at the Camborne School of Mines, where she received her Dip. CSM in Industrial Geology. Following graduation, Claire worked as a materials engineer in the UK, before moving to Australia where she has since held a number of roles. Her career history includes positions at the Centre for Mining Technology & Equipment, the JKMRC Pilot Plant and in developmental pilot plants in Perth. Between 1998 and 2017 Claire worked at the University of Western Australia in the civil engineering soil mechanics laboratory. From 2009 to 2017, Claire worked part-time for Bear Rock Solutions, before transitioning to a full-time Business Manger position in 2017. Her responsibilities are to ensure the effective management and commercial aspects of the business. In addition to her mining and engineering background, Claire also holds the A.Fin. designation following completion of her professional qualification through Finsia and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Management.