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Construction on Mines Buoys Demand for Engineers

Steve Bartels - June 2021

Publication - Article

While infrastructure opportunities in the public sector are still limited by constrained government finances, the mining sector is drawing consulting engineers into a range of construction work to expand production.

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Operational Support for Continuance of Mining after a Large-Scale Instability

Ian de Bruyn

Publication - SRK News Article

After rainfall, a deep open pit in Western Australia experienced a large-scale instability which hampered access to the pit and restricted mining activity.

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Underground Design and Numerical Modelling

Iñaki Garcia

Publication - SRK News Article

SRK carried out a feasibility level geotechnical design for an underground and open pit copper project in southern Morocco.

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Investing in Exploration Vital for South Africa

Joseph Mainama - October 2021

Publication - Article

As the mining sector warns that the opportunities of the commodity boom are fast slipping by, government has committed itself to some ambitious targets in promoting exploration.

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Iron Ore Deposits of the Western United States

Erik Ronald - March 2022

Publication - Presentation

A high level review of iron ore potential in the western U.S., excluding Alaska.

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TSF Monitoring as an Aide to TARP Development for Closure

Francois du Toit - May 2022

Publication - Presentation

Monitoring results are used in the development of Trigger Action Response Plans (TARPs), which address tailings storage facility (TSF) performance outside of expected ranges.

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Doors Opened by Women Engineers and Scientists

Visvanathan Reddy - August 2022

Publication - Article

Women working as consulting engineers and scientists are opening doors of opportunity in mining by breaking down discriminatory attitudes and creating role models for the future, with the consulting engineering sector being an important contributor to gender transformation.

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Engineering Opportunities Benefit Women

Visvanathan Reddy, Avril Owens, Lindsay Linzer, Linda Spies, Yerisha Rajpal - August 2022

Publication - Article

The local working environment has changed to allow women to benefit from opportunities in engineering-related industries, says consulting engineers SRK Consulting MD Vis Reddy.

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Geomorphic Designs Inform Tailings Dam Sustainability

Justin Walls - September 2022

Publication - Article

THE FIELD OF TAILINGS dam design and management has recently seen a ratcheting of standards following a particularly severe and well-publicised dam failure in Brazil in 2019. The event led to the formulation of the Global Industry Standards on Tailings Management (GISTM).

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Reviewing Laubscher's Empirical Method to Estimate Subsidence Limits

Andy Thomas, Jarek Jakubec, Constanza Contreras, Davide Elmo - August 2022

Publication - Published Paper

This paper explains the limitations related to Laubscher's empirical method and evaluates new cases from recent cave mining operations for checking the validity of the empirical subsidence chart.

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