Water Treatment
- Contaminant load models
- Passive and Active treatment
- Options analysis (cost/benefit; SLTO; net present value)
- Sludge management
- Project management and feasibility studies
Subject Matter Experts – AMD
- Due Diligence reviews – project liability, potential acquisitions, regulatory reviews
- Third party review
- Expert witness
Operational Geochemistry Support
- Real-time geochemistry support for site personnel
- Implementation of AMD management plans
- Auditing of AMD management plans
- Training of site personnel on key AMD management procedures
- Translation of geochemical assessments to practical operational procedures
- Stakeholder engagement and consultation
Waste Facility AMD Performance
- Contaminant source term characterisation of historical facilities
- Current, short-term, and long-term contaminant load predictions
- Internal dynamic processes (gas and water flux) assessment
- Performance monitoring
Practical Mine Waste Management
- AMD management system conception and construction
- AMD management plan development
- AMD operational procedure development
- Optimal waste placement strategy guidance
- Waste rock classification systems and associated scheduling
Mine Site Geochemical Assessments
- Waste rock and tailings geochemical characterisations
- Acid base accounting
- Static geochemical characterisations
- Kinetic geochemical characterisations
- Site wide and point source water quality assessments
- Site wide contaminant load predictions
- ABA synthetic reference samples
Senior and Principal Level Geochemist Secondments.
Geochemistry Research
- Desktop Assessments: Conceptual stage options investigations; novel idea assessment
- Successful delivery of R&D projects as practicable mining operations
- Water treatment technologies (passive and active treatment systems for AMD, enhanced passive treatment systems (E-PTS), sulfate treatment, nitrate treatment)
- Static and kinetic AMD testing: intrinsic oxidation rates; ABA methodologies, mineralogical-geochemical investigations; bespoke testing programs
