MEC Mining provides a diverse range of consultancy services to clients throughout Australia and Internationally.
Mine Studies
MEC Mining has a team of skilled and experienced mine planners undertaking work on mining studies across various commodities and mining methods.
Our Technical Consulting team is adept at using our experience, advanced software and efficient processes to generate value adding outcomes. MEC Mining has recently completed several mine planning and feasibility studies across commodities including coal, copper and gold.
Our field of expertise includes geotechnical engineering, geology and mine planning for:
- Open cut coal
- Underground coal
- Open pit metalliferous
- Underground metalliferous
Our team regularly complete tasks including:
- Resource modelling
- Orebody optimisation or margin ranking
- Mining methodology, design, planning & scheduling
- Equipment selection
- Xpac/Deswik model builds
- Coal washability modelling
- Operating and capital cost estimation
- Project financial modelling
- Project review
- Alastri models
- Spry models
MEC use associates as required in the areas of geology, infrastructure, environment, geotechnical, rail, port and industrial relations.
Open Pit Coal
Consulting Services
- Studies-conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility
- JORC resource and reserve reporting
- Scheduling model builds
- Life of mine planning, long term planning and optimisation
- Design and scheduling
- Cost modelling and project optimisation
- Due diligence
- Tender / contract management
Methodologies
- Conventional open cut
- Strip mining
- Terrace mine
- Dragline
- Dozer Push
- Truck shovel
- In-Pit systems (i.e. IP Crusher Conveyer)
Onsite Operational Support
- Lead productivity improvement
- Technical mentorship and leadership training
- Technical services teams for full project support
- Operational design, planning and scheduling
- Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement
- Training and mentoring of on-site personnel and systems development and review
- Short to medium term design, planning and scheduling solutions
- Relief role coverage from technical services engineers, geologists and surveyors through to management positions such as Senior Engineer and other Statutory roles
Software
- Deswik
- XERAS
- XPAC/XACT
- Vulcan
- Minescape
- Minex
- ArcGIS
- DataVis
- Surpac
- Minesight
- AutoCAD
- Spry
Underground Coal
Consulting Services
- Studies – concept, pre/feasibility and bankable feasibility;
- JORC Resource and Reserve reporting;
- Mine design, reserving and scheduling model builds;
- Contract and tender evaluation;
- Life of Mine planning, scheduling with long term planning and optimisation.
- Cost modelling and financial evaluation;
- Project Management;
- Value Improving Practices and Trade-Off Studies;
- Mineability Assessments;
- Value Driver Tree Analysis;
- We offer services outside of mining engineering through our consortium of industry partners.
Methodologies
- Longwall Mining – Conventional, Longwall
- Top Coal Caving Punch and Plow
- Hydro Mining
- Bord and Pillar
- Highwall Mining and Mechanised Augering
- Value Driver Tree Analysis
Onsite Operational Support
- Technical services teams for full project support;
- Operational design, planning and scheduling;
- Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement;
- Training and mentoring of on-site personnel and systems development and review;
- Ventilation and Gas Drainage Capability;
- Short to Medium term design, planning and scheduling solutions;
- Relief role coverage from technical services engineers, geologists and surveyors; through to management positions.
Open Pit Metals
Consulting Services
- Life of mine planning and long term planning and optimisation Design and scheduling
- Project review, cost modelling and project optimisation
- Scheduling model builds
- Rehabilitation and closure planning
- Studies – conceptual, pre/feasibility and bankable feasibility JORC resource and reserve reporting
- Asset management
- Contract and tender evaluation
Software
- XPAC / XACT
- TALPAC
- XERAS
- Spry
- Whittle
- Minesight
- Surpac
- Minex
- Alastri
- Minescape
- 3D Dig
- DataVis
- ArcGIS
- Deswik CAD & Scheduler
- Mine 2-4D & EPS
- Vulcan / Vulcan Optimiser
- Shotplus / BLASTPLAN
Onsite Operational Support
- Relief role coverage from technical services engineers, through to management positions
- Project management and Operational readiness/startup
- Operational design, planning, scheduling and optimisation including supply of software where necessary
- Drill & blast, truck & shovel, haulage and dump design & optimisation
- Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement
- Short to medium term design, planning and scheduling solutions
Commodities
- Copper
- Silver
- Zinc
- Lithium
- Diamonds
- Gold
- Base Metals
- Uranium
- Iron ore
- Mineral sands
Underground Metals
Consulting Services
- Life of mine planning and optimisation
- Medium and long term design and scheduling
- Conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility studies
- JORC resource and reserve reporting
- Mine and stope economic cost modelling and optimisation
- Extraction sequence and cut-off grade optimisation
- Contract and tender evaluation
- Mining method and equipment selection
- Trade-off studies
- Capital and operating costs estimation
- Project review and project optimisation
- Assessment of ground control best practice
- Caving – Fragmentation analysis and cavability assessment
- Caving – Subsidence analysis and draw control
Software
- Surpac
- Deswik
- Vulcan
- Minescape
- Ventsim
- Minesight
- XERAS, XPAC and XACT
- Mine2-4D and EP
- Datamine
Onsite Operational Support
- Coverage from technical services engineers, through to management positions
- Project management and Operational readiness
- Short to medium term design, planning and scheduling including supply of software where necessary
- Drill and blast design, guidelines and reporting systems
- Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement
- Ventilation engineering
- Technical department gap analysis, process mapping and RACI analysis
- Technical procedures and industry best practice standards and policies
Commodities
- Copper
- Silver
- Zinc
- Lithium
- Diamonds
- Gold
- Base Metals
- Uranium
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