Project Development · Natural Resources

From first drill core to first shipment.

Central Ray Consulting owns projects across their full life cycle: business development, project development and initiation, project management, and ongoing operations, for mineral and energy ventures across East Africa and beyond.

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8Commodities served
4Life-cycle stages owned
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Why Central Ray

Grounded strategy. Deliberate growth.

Like the bonsai in our mark, sound project development is shaped with patience and intention, not rushed to the next milestone.

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Technical Insight

Project decisions grounded in metallurgy and process engineering, not just a project schedule.

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Full Life-Cycle Ownership

We stay on from the first feasibility number through to ongoing operations, not just the milestone that suits us.

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Greenfield & Brownfield

Equally at home commissioning a new concentrator or extending the life of an existing operation.

Our Story

Consulting that stays in it with you.

Central Ray Consulting was founded to close a gap seen across the natural resources sector: project support that produces a polished study but never actually stays through implementation.

Central Ray stays close to execution, owning responsibilities across the full project life cycle rather than handing off at the milestone that suits the consultant. That approach shapes how the firm works with resource owners and operators across gold, base metals, battery minerals, potash, and oil and gas.

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What Guides Us

Grown with intention

Every engagement runs through the same four principles.

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    Patience over speed

    Durable projects take deliberate shaping, not shortcuts. Getting the feasibility work right matters more than moving fast and rebuilding later.

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    Balance over extremes

    The right plan weighs ambition against what a site and a team can actually sustain.

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    Resilience by design

    We flag risk and opportunity early and communicate them plainly, rather than waiting for a status report to surface them, so plans hold up under commodity cycles, site conditions, and the unexpected.

  • 04

    Clarity in every recommendation

    No jargon, no vague roadmaps. Every recommendation comes with the reasoning behind it and a clear next step.

Leadership

Led by a chemical engineer, not just a project manager.

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Gurvir Singh Ghataurhae

Founder & Principal Consultant

A PMP-certified Professional Engineer with an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering from Curtin University. His background spans mineral processing and brine operations in Australia with various industry-leading companies, alongside industrial research and performance experimentations in oil and gas equipment.

That technical grounding is the firm’s differentiator: project management delivered by someone who has run the plant, not just the schedule, across both greenfield builds and brownfield operations.

PMP CERTIFIED B.ENG (HONS) CHEMICAL · CURTIN UNIVERSITY
Services

One firm, the whole project life cycle.

Most consultancies hand a project off at the milestone that suits them. Central Ray stays on, from the first feasibility number to the metrics reported on ongoing operations.

01Surface
Business Development
  • Working with stakeholders to draw out the true problem or opportunity before scoping a solution
  • Positioning a resource as a bankable proposition
02Scoping
Project Development & Initiation
  • Feasibility studies and scope definition
  • Taking a project from concept to sanction-ready
03Execution
Project Management & Consulting
  • Execution schedules, budgets, and contractor mobilisation
  • Change control and delivery discipline
04Core
Ongoing Operations
  • Owner’s-engineer oversight, HAZOP and commissioning support
  • Performance management once the project is live
Cross-Cutting Capability

Project Controls

Cost, schedule, and reporting discipline that runs underneath every stage above, not a separate hand-off.

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  • Cost control, estimates, and bills of quantities
  • Schedule development and tracking
  • Power BI reporting and analytics dashboards
  • Extension of Time (EOT) claims support
Sectors

Built on metallurgy, applied across the table.

Central Ray’s project work is grounded in metallurgical training: knowledge that travels across commodities most consultancies treat as unrelated.

01AuGold
02NiNickel
03PbLead
04AgSilver
05CuCopper
06LiLithium
07KPotash
08O·GOil & Gas

Equally at home commissioning a greenfield concentrator or extending the life of a brownfield operation. The metallurgy carries across both.

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Let’s talk about the project.

Whether it’s a scoping study, an owner’s-engineer mandate, or a full project buildout, get in touch.