MRI has expertise in the following areas:

Materials and Processes:

• Refractories
• Fine ceramics
• Powder metallurgy
• Composites

Physical Metallurgy:

• Mechanical testing of materials
• Non-destructive testing of engineering materials
• Failure analysis of engineering components
• Material selection for various industrial applications
• Heat treatment procedures, surface treatments, etc
• Laboratory quality control
• Chemical and Metallographic analysis of metals

Foundry Technology:

• Sand management in foundries, i.e. CO2 sand, resin and green sand.
• Methoding, i.e. design of sprues, runners, ingates and risers.
• In-depth reject analysis.
• Assistance with melting and casting of alloys both ferrous and non-ferrous.
• Spheroidal Graphite Iron (SGI) and Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) manufacturing technology

Extractive Metallurgy:

• Mineral extraction and refining (gold, chromium, platinum group metals, base metals etc.)
• New product and process development
• Mineral value addition processing, e.g. tantalite, chromite ores, base metal ores, rare earth metals, etc.
• Laboratory scale metallurgical test works and process flow sheet development
• Metallurgical accounting, process audits, trouble-shooting and optimization of mineral processing circuits
• Process plant flow design and costing
• Optimization of crushing and milling circuits

Pyro-Metallurgy:

• Value addition processing of low grade oxide ores and coal resources
• Laboratory scale tests and flow sheet development in direct reduced iron (DRI) making processes
• Trouble shooting and process optimization in iron and steel making processes
• Smelting reduction of iron and chromite ores
• Process improvement and optimisation, e.g. optimisation of slag/alloy separation for high carbon ferrochrome production.

Mineral Processing

• Test Work Design and Supervision
• Project Design
• Intellectual Property Development/Management
• Operator Training
• Technology Applications
• Financial Modeling
• Heap Leach Pad and Tailings Facility Design
• Flowsheet Development and Design
• Operating and Capital Cost Estimation
• Plant Auditing, Optimization, and Trouble Shooting
• Equipment Selection
• Equipment Optimization: Rock crushers, Ball Mills circuits, carbon in leach/pulp circuits.

• Ball mill components ( mill balls, liners, pinion & girth gears)
• Jaw crusher lining
• Stamp mill components ( shoes, cam, tappets, heads, dies)
• Cast products in steel and iron.
• Agricultural, construction and automotive products
• Cast iron / Steel casting and fabrication

• Mineral beneficiation.
• Small scale mining as a business
• Lithium exploration, mining and beneficiation
• Physical metallurgy principles