Our senior engineering staff have worked at various mining development projects across Canada and worldwide such as Kidd Creek Mine in Timmins, Klimax Coal Mine in Saskatchewan, BMS Mine Tailings Dam in New Brunswick, Denison Mines in Elliot Lake, Syncrude Oil Sands in Alberta, Pierina in Peru, Molycorp in California, Masbate in the Philippines, Golden Giant Mine in Ontario, Rio Algom, Inco in Sudbury, Pamour Mine in Timmins, Heath Steele Mines and Mine No.12 in New Brunswick.
 

Our mining experience ranges from underground rock mechanics to overburden soil mechanics, surface runoff management to hydrogeology, supported underground openings to sloped open pits, mine waste management to utilization, and surface facilities to ore handling transportation routes.

For mine waste management complete services are provided from site selection, feasibility studies, design, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), permitting, tendering, construction management, operation, monitoring, decommissioning and closure. During the process various background and planning studies are conducted including budget estimates, construction documents preparation and risk assessment.

Mine Waste Services

 Environmental Impact Assessment for     government approval
 Groundwater assessment
 Acid mine drainage abatement
 Mine runoff management
 Mine waste management
 Tailings disposal planning
 Tailings dam design and safety review
 Foundation engineering
 Earthquake risk assessment
 Liquefaction potential assessment
 Post construction monitoring
 Mine reclamation and closure planning.




Services for underground and open pit minining are focused on mine safety and rock stability. The process involves review and design of mine layout with regard to the ore body and faulting, geology review, stress analyses, geomechanics, instrumentation and rock support review.

Geomechanics Services

 Mine planning and mine management
 Rock mass failure analysis and ground     support review
 Open pit stability analyses
 Pillar stress numerical analyses
 Rock Mass Rating
 Geomechanics and microseismicity
 Earthquake risk assessment
 Geology and faulting review
 Instrumentation and monitoring
 Overburden dewatering and stripping
 Grouting and seepage control
 Hydrogeology
 Leachate studies
 Mine layout; supervision of construction
 Surface facilities
 Foundation engineering
 Mine risk assessments and audits

 
 
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