Event Archives

Lunch & Learn – March

Blog, EventFebruary 28, 2020

Join us for our first MEC WA Lunch and Learn session presented by Technical Services Manager, Erin Sweeney on Improving Operational Performance Through Data Management! Mine sites are collecting increasing amounts of data at a faster and a faster pace on the performance of their operations, if not harnessed properly this can be overwhelming; and many…

Lunch and Learn – February 2020

Blog, EventFebruary 19, 2020

Join MEC’s Senior Mining Consultant Matthew Turner for our next lunch and learn session in Brisbane. Matthew will discuss the theory of optimising cut off grades over time for open pit metalliferous mines. Touching on the challenges of practical application within the inherent variability of key assumptions. Date: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 Topic: Cut Off…

MEC Champions Women in Mining and Resources

EventSeptember 18, 2019

MEC was pleased to host this month’s Women in Mining and Resources Queensland (WIMARQ) networking event. It was a full house at the sold out breakfast event, as we welcomed our guest speakers onto the panel:

Catherine Shooter - Discipline Engineering Manager at BHP,
Loren Ager - Principal of Learning & Development at MEC, and
Negin Beaton - Development and Communications Coordinator at the University of Queensland and Senior Mining Engineer at MEC.

Join us at the AusIMM 2019 Iron Ore Conference

EventJuly 15, 2019

MEC will be attending the AusIMM’s Iron Ore Conference 2019 in Perth from 22-24 July 2019. The conference, held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, offers delegates unparalleled opportunities to network with iron ore producers and consumers from around the world and share their experiences.

Lunch and Learn – April

EventMarch 31, 2019

With sustained strength in the commodity price, there are growing concerns mine site operating costs will return to those seen during the last mining boom. To capitalise on strong commodity prices, a focus must remain on maximising profitability margins by managing operating costs and inventory levels.

October Lunch and Learn

EventSeptember 24, 2018

MEC is excited to host our October lunch and learn on Landform Optimisation for Effective Mine Rehabilitation with Principal Mining Engineer James Cooney. James has had a diverse range of experience over the past 20 years, working for contract miners, mine owners and as a consultant, mainly within open-cut coal mining. During a short break from the mining industry James led a team of project controls professionals on a large infrastructure project in the UK.

Lunch and Learn featuring SiteSee

EventAugust 14, 2018

MEC is excited to host our next lunch and learn session featuring CEO & Co-Founder of SiteSee, Lucio Piccoli. Lucio will be presenting on Artificial Intelligence & Reality Modelling solving problems for Infrastructure owners & operators.

By merging 3D reality models and AI, SiteSee are solving real world problems for large scale infrastructure owners & operators by providing intelligent automated auditing of the asset; allowing for more informed decision making on the maintenance and upgrade of their asset.

Lunch and Learn Session featuring Geos Mining

EventMay 17, 2018

"You want it when?” Reasonable Prospects Considerations for Eventual Economic Extraction.

MEC are excited to present our latest lunch and learn with Managing Director Tom Bradbury from Geos Mining.

MEC’s Maria Joyce discusses change leadership at Women in Engineering Leadership Summit

EventMay 4, 2018

Maria Joyce, General Manager – Strategy and Business Development at MEC, will give the opening keynote case study at the 7th Women in Engineering Leadership Summit, presented by Liquid Learning. The theme for this year’s summit, held at the Brisbane Marriott Hotel from 28 May to 1 June 2018, is ‘Engineer Your Success’.

MEC Lunch & Learn with V2H Australia

EventNovember 21, 2017

MEC are excited to present our latest lunch and learn with Doug Henderson, CEO of V2H Australia. Utilising innovative, high pressure water jetting systems, the Vertical To Horizontal drilling technology offers a low cost, high productivity alternative for the Petroleum, Gas and Coal industries.

From the Bowen Basin to the Asian/Arctic Rims of Russia

EventNovember 8, 2017

Join the MEC team for a relaxed networking event where we will share our story on strategically optimising the extraction of a steeply dipping coking coal deposit in chilly Russia! Not only will we dig deep into the technical rigour of Lerchs Grossman, we will also provide our personal insights into; both the cultural and environmental challenges we faced working on the other side of the planet.

Lunch and Learn: Envirosuite

EventOctober 3, 2017

Join us for a free lunch and learn session with Andrew Shek, Strategy and Business Development Asia Pacific-Envirosuite. EnviroSuite is an innovative, proven technology platform developed to facilitate the management and rapid interpretation of environmental data across water, air and noise. EnviroSuite won the Australian Technology Competition in 2015. It is an integrated, cloud-based system for aggregating, analysing and displaying real time environmental data in a simple, intuitive, portable interface. Used by a wide range of industries and organisations globally, EnviroSuite helps to proactively manage environmental outcomes and risk using high resolution weather forecasting, real time sensor systems, blast and dispersion modelling.