1. Anderson & Schwab, Inc. (A&S) specializes in providing a broad array of consulting services to the international extractive, processing, coal, metals and minerals based industries to include  producers,  financial institutions, suppliers, customers, professional service firms and governments. 

2. Our firm is over forty years old, has permanent offices in New York City,  and Melbourne, and associate consultants based in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Paris, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Durban, Beijing and numerous locations in the U.S. 

3. Since our founding in 1965, we have worked for over 600 clients and completed thousands of individual consulting projects ranging from one day to 800 days of man-time.  Our consulting projects have included work on all seven continents, and over 60% of our work is outside the U.S. 

4. Our staff – which includes both full-time and associates (the latter are part-time) – is comprised of either professional management consultants with extensive experience in the minerals and related businesses or career-long, minerals industry, senior business and technical personnel encompassing all key functions of a  coal, minerals or metals business to include the technologies associated with these businesses.  The resultant work product represents a marriage of these two disciplines.

5. Our clients are (a) minerals producers and first- or second-stage  manufacturing companies, or mining companies that are integrated forward, for whom we do largely business consulting; (b) providers of, and users of various forms of energy, (c) financial institutions for whom we do largely due diligence/valuation/assessment work; (d) both minerals producers and financial institutions for whom we do property/company, asset sales and purchase work, (e) investing groups or individual investors for whom we act as mining industry/ business/financial advisors covering potential clients’ minerals investments, investments in companies that service the  minerals producer or manufacturers, both existing and potential; (f) governmental institutions for whom we do a broad variety of analytical work; (g) equipment suppliers to – and customers of – the global mining industry and (h) professional service firms, i.e., legal, accounting, engineering, etc.  (All our work is top management focused.)

6. Our advantages as a resource, and reasons for existing as a firm, are that we provide solid, senior-level, business staff skills covering all relevant aspects of the  coal, metal mining and processing  businesses which, when married with strong industry, technical and functional understanding, produce a unique work product.  Our outputs can be either specific valuations or providing inputs and analyses to the group(s) doing the valuation, or a wide variety of other types of analyses.

7. Prior to taking on an assignment, we learn from the potential client its objectives, concerns, desired work outputs, timetable, and relevant facts about the situation.  We then utilize the relevant skills within our own organization to prepare a proposal, presuming that we and the potential client have achieved a mutual level of rapport.  The proposal, which includes our approach, elapsed time and costs  we then send to – and discuss with – the potential client. 

• In some instances where discussion has defined well both the project and the commercial arrangements, we prepare and submit to the potential client only a confirmation letter.
• In other instances where initial discussion of a complex issue is not sufficient, our detailed work program and its rationale becomes Phase I of the assignment.

8. We have a strategic alliance with KPMG whose focus is the KPMG Australia Accounting Partnership.  KPMG Australia owns 4.9% of A&S' Australian Company – A&S Australia.  The less than 5% ownership entitles each firm to take on any assignment it wishes to, regardless of the other firm's involvement in any given situation.