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Open Pit Mine Design, Planning & Engineering

Maximising profits through operable solutions

SRK’s mining engineers have strong operational and technical backgrounds and substantial experience gained in mines across multiple commodities, methods, and continents.  When highly specialist mining skills are required, SRK has the ability to bring in expertise from our other consulting practices around the world. Our team is focused on producing optimised operable mine designs that make most effective use of your capital.

We have developed an innovative and rigorous mine planning methodology that takes a mineral resource through to a comprehensive technical report inclusive of the life-of-mine plan and technical-economic model.  The methodology first focuses on defining and ranking mining options for the development of the deposit, followed by pit optimisation to determine the economic mining depth, scale of operation, and cut-off strategy.  Our mining engineers are driven to ensure that appropriate decisions to guide project development are made at the earliest opportunity.

We are aware of the growing need of mining companies to bring their projects into production quickly.  We can assist this process by supplying highly qualified consultants to supplement your technical resources to achieve desired outcomes.

Our key services are:

  • The full range of studies from scoping to detailed feasibility
  • Mine planning reviews and technical audits
  • Development and implementation of optimal mining strategies
  • Operational assistance, reviews and improvements
  • Financial evaluations
  • Risk analyses
  • Project reviews
  • Due diligence
  • Competent person reports
  • Independent expert reports
  • Stock market listing report

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Scott McEwing

Scott McEwing has over 22 years’ mining industry experience. He is a mining engineer who is skilled in due diligence, project management and technical mine planning in most commodities. Scott is familiar with the value chain of resources projects and has been exposed to all aspects from exploration through to closure. He has been SRK’s project manager for the delivery of a number of due diligences and large multi-discipline feasibility studies for both Australian and international projects. His technical skills include mine planning, optimisation and design. He is proficient in the use of computerised mining software packages – Whittle and MineSight, in particular. Scott has held both production and planning operational roles in Australia at Golden Grove and Boddington Gold Mine, and in New Zealand at the Martha Mine. Whilst being a consultant with SRK, Scott has been seconded to several mining operations.

Principal Consultant (Mining)
BEng (Mining), FAusIMM(CP
smcewing@srk.com.au
SRK Perth
Carl Murray

Carl Murray is a mining engineer with 25 years’ experience.  His operational experience in open cut mining, specifically in gold / copper and iron ore, combined with his consultancy experience allows Carl to provide a balanced application of technical and practical mining skills.  His experience ranges from production management and supervision, short and long term planning, due diligence and feasibility studies in Australia and overseas, to hands-on technical drill and blast work.  Carl has worked in small and large-scale open pit operations from the Goldfields to the Pilbara of Western Australia whilst in the service of Normandy Group, Newcrest Mining and Robe River Iron Associates.  His particular areas of proficiency are due diligence and feasibility studies, open cut optimisation, and operational financial analysis.  He has experience in equipment productivity evaluation, and application of results to the selection of optimal equipment for working operations.  Utilising the latest mining software, Carl has both practical and technical experience in optimising an orebody from resource model stage through to workable open cut mining operation.

BE (Mining), MAusIMM
cmurray@srk.com.au
SRK Perth
Sjoerd Duim

Sjoerd Duim has more than 31 years of postgraduate experience in the mining industry in the areas of mineral resource estimation, operations based (open pit and underground) mining and open pit mining scoping, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.  His particular areas of expertise are open pit mine planning, pit optimisation, operating cost estimates, capital cost estimates, productivity studies, production scheduling and equipment fleet determination.  Sjoerd worked in a hands-on capacity on the South African open pit (Finsch) mine and underground (Kimberley, Koffiefontein and Finsch (transition to underground) diamond mines and on deep level underground gold mines (Western Deep Levels - Teutona).  Since 1998, Sjoerd has worked as a mining consultant in the areas of open pit mine planning both in Australia and internationally.  His open pit mine planning and mining knowledge has seen him working on many projects for various commodities, including bauxite, copper, iron, heavy minerals, gold and other precious metals.

Principal Consultant (Mining)
MSc Eng (Mining Engineering), GDip (Engineering), MAusIMM
sduim@srk.com.au
SRK Perth

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