Recent mining experience

Open pit

  • Freeport Mine, Indonesia – Continuing review and risk evaluation after major 2003 incident
  • Lihir (PNG), Mt Keith, Century, and Kidston open pits (review and detailed design with a long-term permanent operational geotechnical role)


Slope stability projects

  • Lihir, PNG – geotechnical assessment following a major landslide of their main access road
  • Chatree and Chatree North, Thailand - continuing geotechnical pre-feasibility studies
  • Siana Gold Project, Phillipines – scoping, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility studies
  • Peak Hill Gold Mine, NSW – continuing

Underground

  • Cibaliung, Indonesia – feasibility and continuing operational assistance
  • Victor South, Longshaft, WA – numerical modelling, including room and pillar design, stoping guidelines and sequencing
  • Beaconsfield Gold Mine, Tas – life of mine planning