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Richard is a Chartered Engineer with significant practical experience in design, analysis, evaluation, and construction of geotechnical structures including slopes, retention dams, foundations, and lining systems. Richard specialises in assessment and design of rock and soil slopes, numerical modelling, design and management of ground investigations, design and management of ground performance monitoring schemes, technical due diligence, and audits of slopes and waste storage facilities for project evaluation, technical performance, and regulatory compliance.
He is also experienced in providing expert witness services to insurers and lawyers in relation to his areas of specialisation. Richard has worked on base, precious-metal, coal, and industrial mineral projects throughout the UK, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.
The new Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) published in August 2020 is a governance standard that adds to, rather than replaces, existing technical tailings management standards.
Learn MoreFollowing catastrophic failures at Brumadinho (Brazil; 2019), Mariana (Brazil; 2015) and Mount Polley (Canada; 2014), there has been an ever-increasing focus on Tailings Storage Facility safety, both within the mining industry and by the wider public.
Learn MoreSafety audits of operational waste rock dumps and tailings storage facilities (TSF) account for a significant proportion of the workload in the SRK UK and SRK Kazakhstan Mine Waste Engineering teams.
Learn MoreAssessing the safety and security of operational TSFs has been a significant proportion of the SRK UK Mine Waste Engineering team’s workload since catastrophic failures at Brumadinho and Mariana, Brazil, and Mount Polley, Canada.
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