Geotechnical Engineering
The application of sound geotechnical principles to the design of a mining operation enables optimum mining strategies to be developed to ensure operational safety and maximum economic extraction. Snowden's geotechnical team utilises state-of-the-art analysis and design techniques in association with quantitative risk assessment to deliver practical open pit and underground design solutions. Snowden's approach to geotechnical issues provides clients with the information to assess and optimise their mine designs for maximum stakeholder value.
Open pit geotechnical engineering
- Data collection and analysis
- Identification of failure modes
- Limit equilibrium, probabilistic and numerical analysis
- Quantification of geotechnical risk and slope design optimisation
- Interface with resource optimisation
- Interface with production planning and scheduling
- Support design
- Blastability, blast design and explosive selection
- Stability monitoring
- Remedial solutions
- Numerical modelling
- Rockmass monitoring / instrumentation
Underground geotechnical engineering
- Rock mass quality assessment
- Failure mode identification
- Mining method selection
- Underground access design and location
- Stope and/or pillar layout, design and sequencing
- Support design
- Modelling of stress and displacement
- Modelling of structurally-controlled failure modes
- Monitoring of underground openings
- Remediation design
- Blastability assessment and specialised blast design
- Stress assessment
- Material property determination
- Rockmass monitoring / instrumentation
- Rockburst investigation
For more information please contact our Geotechnical group on geotech@snowden.com.au
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