Mining Services

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Together, we offer all aspects of quality services to the mining industry in a diverse range of areas.

Exploration

  • Exploration permitting and economic analysis
  • Bond acquisition/release
  • Drillhole abandonment
  • Site characterisation
  • Mineralogical models
  • Baseline environmental studies
  • Regulatory strategy development

Field Studies

  • Aesthetic resources (visual and noise)
  • Air quality
  • Aquatic, terrestrial, and cultural ecology
  • Ecological risk assessment
  • Environmental audit and compliance services
  • Endangered and special status species surveys
  • Hydrology/water quality and hydrogeology investigation
  • Geochemical characterisation
  • Waste classification, management and disposal
  • Environmental monitoring programs, including routine groundwater monitoring

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  • Agency coordination
  • Mining permit application preparation
  • Mine rehabilitation
  • Revegetation design
  • Aesthetic resource evaluation
  • Surface and groundwater modeling
  • Storage and packaging for compressed flammable gases
  • Design for chemical storage and handling facilities
  • Archaeological baseline studies
  • Ecological assessments
  • Environmental/due diligence audits
  • Bond calculations
  • Facility layout and design
  • Environmental studies (baseline, monitoring)
  • Air and water modeling
  • Natural resource damage assessment
  • Socioeconomics and land use

Risk Assessment

  • Risk assessment of dangerous goods storage and handling facilities
  • Site investigations
  • Risk management
  • Human health and ecological risk assessment
  • Ecosystem restoration
  • Asset/liability management
  • Community relations and risk communication
  • Emergency/Incident response
  • Product stewardship

Planning

  • Site Environmental Management Plans (SEMPs)
  • Plans of operation
  • Reclamation/revegetation plans
  • Erosion/sediment control plans
  • Spill prevention plans
  • Stormwater management plans
  • Weed management plans
  • Fugitive dust control plans
  • Habitat conservation/management plans
  • Visual management plans
  • Landscape plans
  • Archaeological recovery
  • Continuously monitored secondary contained systems for enhanced pollution control

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  • Mining permits
  • Air permits
  • Water permits
  • Siting permits
  • Rights-of-way
  • Stormwater permits
  • Waste permits
  • Land use permits Regulatory Compliance
  • Due diligence assessments
  • Local environmental regulatory accredited statutory auditing
  • Permit and legal compliance audits
  • Environmental performance auditing
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
  • Environmental Site Assessments (ESA)
  • Environmental management systems implementation and auditing, including gap analysis system audits
  • Expert witness
  • Corporate reporting
  • Stormwater control design

Natural Resource Damage

  • Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) and Resource Equivalency Analysis (REA)
  • Sustainability auditing
  • Greenhouse gas consulting
  • Economic valuation/modeling
  • Injury and damage assessments
  • Oily water treatment systems and pollution control systems for vehicle washes, workshops fuel storage systems etc.
  • Storm water management and control
  • Natural resource trustee negotiations
  • Design and implementation of restoration projects

Mine Waste Technology

  • Waste water recycling and reuse
  • Mine pit lake treatment
  • Acid mine drainage prevention
  • In-situ reactive wall and reactive zones
  • In-situ bioremediation and intrinsic bio-attenuation
  • Phyto-remediation
  • Soil washing/stabilisation/fixation
  • Dewatering systems
  • Multi-phase extraction (MPE)
  • Air sparging
  • Chemical injection, including oxidation and reduction methodologies
  • pH Adjustment

These technologies have been successfully implemented on sites with the following contaminants:Image 5 Full Size

  • Hydrocarbons
  • Solvents
  • Heavy metals
  • Pesticides
  • Sediment-laden waters
  • Energetic materials
  • Acid sulphate soils

Closure/Reclamation

  • Reclamation planning/monitoring
  • Waste reclamation
  • GRiP®
  • Demolition/decommissioning
  • Dewatering/groundwater control
  • Drainage analysis
  • Geochemistry and geophysics
  • Geology/hydrogeology
  • Geostatistical modeling
  • Geotechnical investigations/ analysis
  • Metallurgy
  • Soil and groundwater remediation
  • Liquid waste treatment
  • Water treatment

EIA Services

  • Due Diligence Assessment
  • EIA and EIS
  • Regulatory Liaison
  • Mine Closure and Rehabilitation
  • General Petroleum Geology and Basin Analysis
  • Petroleum Systems Analysis
  • Thermochronology and Thermal History Modelling
  • Reservoir and Source Rock Characterisation
  • Oil and Gas Geochemistry
  • Geophysics and Petrophysics
  • Provenance Studies
  • Reserves and Resources
  • Basin Studies
  • Mine Water and Groundwater Management and Treatment Technologies
  • Ecological Assessment
  • Groundwater Extraction and Treatment
  • Marine Impact Assessments
  • Social Impact Assessment and Community Liaison Plans
  • Indigenous Impact and Archaeological Impact Assessment and Plans
  • Sustainability Reporting
  • Flora and Fauna Assessment
  • Coal Drying Technology
  • Noise Modelling
  • Low Energy Water Treatment and Extraction of Organic and Inorganic Species

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