Expert geotechnical support
MineGeoTech offers geotechnical engineering support, mine planning engineering services and technology solutions from exploration phase to mine closure.
Principal geotechnical engineer Dr John Player has more than 23 years’ experience and holds a PhD in Dynamic Testing of Rock Reinforcement Systems.
Dr Player founded the company in 2010 and it has since grown to have offices in Kalgoorlie and Perth.
The team of 10 geotechnical engineers, mining engineers and engineering geologists have a wealth of experience in metalliferous mining projects both in Australia and internationally.
The company has undertaken mining and geotechnical feasibility studies to both underground and open cut mines.
MineGeoTech’s strong base of operational support and geotechnical coverage assists clients that do not have their own geotechnical staff, and to those requiring additional support and training.
Demonstrating MineGeoTech’s capacity to meet its client’s requirements was the provision of engineering expertise to MMG during the Dugald River geotechnical feasibility study.
The keystone being the establishment of a structured, 19 stope, trial mining program over an eight month period, extracting 355,000 tonnes of ore.
The trial stoping program achieved the objective of characterising the hangingwall rock mass conditions, and measured its performance (geotechnical and mine production) for the revised feasibility study.
Mining methods tested included multi-lift, extended strike, longitudinal and transverse stopes, in a sequence that also simulated crown stopes of a mining panel.
MineGeoTech’s mining engineering services undertake mine optimisation, design and scheduling of open pit and underground projects.
This includes scoping to feasibility studies, ore reserve statements and LOM operational support servicing operations from 0.2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 5mtpa.
The MineGeoTech integrated approach of mining, geology and technology provides explorers and miners with a single solution from core logging through to feasibility with a tailored solution for each client.