Welcome to Irus Consulting

the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”  – Marcel Proust.

For the most part I believe that mineral exploration is a process of creative failure.  But to mangle some words of wisdom wisdom of Sun Tzu to mineral exploration: exploration strategy without the right tactics is the slowest route to discovery; exploration tactics without strategy is the noise of failure. Mineral exploration, discovery and mining is pathway involving lots of science and engineering and luck. I have visited many countries and seen a lot of rocks and most importantly mineralised rocks. In my Blog I share my passion for exploration and try to remove some of the mystery.  You may stumble across some insights and interesting ideas embedded in my observations.  If not I hope you still enjoy the stories and the magpie’s snippets of information.

John P. Barry
John P. Barry

Irus Consulting provides strategic and practical management advice and guidance to its clients. Time is a precious commodity. It ebbs away relentlessly for us all. Life is too short so I try as best I can to avoid the mediocre. I like quality exploration projects with passionate champions which together make the extraordinary possible. It requires belief and persistence and some magical realism combined with noodles of luck.  What a curious investment proposition?

Irus Services Include:

  • High-level strategic advice
  • Practical guidance and assistance on project sourcing, acquisition and implementation
  • Rapid identification of key project value-drivers and potential fatal flaws.
  •  Capacity building and coordination of  external consultants.
  • Design and targeting of effective marketing campaigns

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Services

  • Strategic high-level advisory
  • Guidance and assistance on project sourcing, acquisition and implementation
  • Core-team capacity building & motivation and effective management of consultants
  • Rapid identification of key project value-drivers and potential fatal flaws – (SWOT Analysis)
  • Design and targeting of effective marketing campaigns

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