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Mining consultancy | Mine planning | Geology | Onsite management | Technical services solutions

TRUSTED EXPERTISE. PROVEN OUTCOMES.

MEC Mining is a global mining consultancy specialising in mine planning, onsite

management, geology and technical services solutions for the international mining industry.

Since 2005, MEC has grown into a leading consultancy firm with an experienced team of

consultants; specialising in both the open cut and underground coal and minerals sectors.

MEC Mining understands the risks associated with using external consultants; therefore

quality of outcomes is paramount, people and experience matter.

We deliver high quality work that enhances the value of our clients’ projects and our team of

experienced consultants bring a diverse range of knowledge to each project.

Importantly, we offer a flexible approach to all services and will gladly tailor our services to

meet individual project or company requirements.

OUR APPROACH

KEY PEOPLE- DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT

MARIA JOYCE | GENERAL MANAGERBEng(Hons)(Mining), MAusIMM(CP), RPEQ 11510

Maria’s Journey with MEC Started in 2007, she is currently the General Manager . With over 12 years

experience in the mining industry working with several major mining houses. Maria’s strength and

expertise are technical service team management, scheduling solutions, along with short, medium

and long term strategic planning’s. Maria and her experienced team services both open cut coal and

metalliferrous mining operations from site based support through to JORC and feasibility studies.

SIMON COHN | MANAGING DIRECTORBEng(Hons)(Mining), MAusIMM(CP), RPEQ 11902

Simon joined MEC as a Director in May 2007 and was appointed Managing Director in 2011.

Simon has over 17 years experience in the mining industry, having worked in a range of open cut/

underground metalliferous and coal mines throughout Australia and overseas.

DANIEL CHIPPENDALE | DIRECTOR | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING BEng(Mining), BBus(Man), MAusIMM(CP), RPEQ 11901

Daniel founded MEC in Mackay in 2005 after working in a range of open cut coal mines in the Bowen

Basin between 2001 and 2004. He is now based in MEC’s head office in Brisbane. Daniel has a dual

degree in Mining Engineering and Business and specialises in operations improvement, mine design

and technical services management.

TED BOULTON | DIRECTOR | CONSULTING BEng(Hons)(Mining)

Ted graduated with a Mining Engineering degree in 1998 and worked in a range of open-cut coal mines in

the Bowen Basin before joining MEC as a Director in 2006. After several years in MEC’s Mackay office, Ted

is now based in Brisbane and specialises in mine design, cost estimation and reserve estimation.

BRANT PETERS | GENERAL MANAGER - SOUTH AMERICABEng (Mining)

Brant joined MEC Mining in 2013 as the General Manager- South America based in our Santiago,

Chile office. He brings over 15 years experience to the MEC team, having worked in Open Pit and

Underground operations around the world at varies Coal, Zinc, Gold, Copper and Iron Ore Mines.

KEY PEOPLE - MANAGEMENT & PROJECT LEADS

JULIA KOUBA | COMMERCIAL MANAGERBBus(Acc) & LL.B

Julia joined MEC in April 2012 as our Financial Controller and has now been appointed as the Commercial

Manager. She holds a dual degree, Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and Bachelor of Laws, CPA and has

over 10 years experience in accounting. Julia is part of our management team and displays skills in finance,

management and leadership.

CHRISTOFER CATANIA | PROJECT LEADB.Eng(Mining) MAusIMM 228366

Christofer’s journey started with the MEC team in July 2011 as Senior Mining Consultant/Project

Lead. He has strong technical skills both in operations and technical studies across commodities

such as Zinc, Iron Ore, Copper/Gold and Coal. Operationally Chris presents strong truck & shovel

and drill & blast experience in both metals and coal. He is has a good track record in operational

and provides on-site mentoring to a variety of clients.

TIM COOPER | PROJECT LEADBSc

Tim joined the MEC team in June 2011 as a Senior Mining Consultant/ Project Lead. He has over

10 years experience in engineering geology and mining engineering with solid operational and

technical skills in coal and exposure to Copper/Gold orebodies. Tim has acted as Project Lead for

several major studies and demonstrates strong skills in short; medium and long term scheduling

across a suite of software including XPAC, XACT and Deswik Scheduler/Landform.

SHYAM SUNDER | PROJECT LEADBEng (Mining)

Shyam Sunder started with MEC in March 2014. He has over 15 years experience across a range of

commodities throughout Australia and overseas. His areas of expertise include pit optimisation,

strategic, short, medium and long term planning, feasibility studies, team management and

training, drill and blast, equipment selection, cost analysis and production planning.

MARK SLATER | SENIOR MINING CONSULTANTBEng (Mining), B AppSc (App Geo), MAusIMM(CP), RPEQ

Mark Slater joined MEC in May 2014 as a Senior Mining Consultant with over 11 years of experience.

He has a proven track record in providing technical and operational support to underground clients;

utilising his substantial operational experience to add value to his client’s operations/projects. He

is familiar in the mining of Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper and Nickel; winning ore through open

stoping, remnant pillar, cut-and-fill, and narrow-vein mining techniques.

SERVICES

RECENT PROJECTS

RECENT PROJECTS

MEC MINING BRINGS A COMPREHENSIVE SKILL SET TO ALL OUR PROJECTS. OUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE ACROSS A RANGE OF MINING

ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES ENABLE THE BUSINESS TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE CLIENT TO FIND AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION.

RECENT PROJECTS

Projects that we have recently undertaken include:

Location: Nicaragua

HKND engaged MEC Mining to provide engineering assistance for the HKND Nicaragua Canal. Being one

of the largest civil projects in the world MEC is proud of its contribution to the project. MEC’s primary

focus has been on the route selection/optimisation and equipment selection. During the project MEC also

focused on optimising truck and shovel haulage using Deswik to perform numerous schedule iterations

and landform designs. MEC continue to play a pivotal role in the development of this project and will

continue to support HKND as the project progresses to development.

Location: Papua New Guinea

Mayur holds a number of assets in PNG and has engaged MEC to undertake numerous studies in order

to determine how to extract the greatest value from their projects. A multi commodity company, Mayur

holds interests in coal, mineral sands and copper/gold projects. MEC has completed a number of pit

optimisations, concept studies, geological model builds and has acted as Mayur’s in-house consulting

team.

Location: Laos

With world class assets across the globe, MMG is one of the largest mining houses in the world. MEC has

been selected as one of MMG’s preferred consultants and has engaged MEC on a number of different

projects including onsite operational support, operational improvement, pit optimisation, life of mine

planning and to complete a number of feasibility studies. MEC has also provided project management

support for a number of Sepon Mine studies.

Location: Russia

Located on the north eastern coast of Russia, with its existing port in the Bearing Sea, lies Tigers Realm’s

world class coal deposits. MEC has been working with Tigers Realm to transition its projects from

exploration through to operations. MEC has completed a number of significant open cut and underground

studies for Tigers Realm with the recent release of the Amaan North Bankability Study; showcasing what

great potential these deposits have. Tigers Realm owns a number of assets in the region and MEC will

continue to add value to these deposits as exploration progresses.

Location: Australia

Cockatoo Coal’s Baralaba North Mine is one of the few greenfield coal mines to open in Queensland

in recent years. This is a testament to all parties involved with the development of the mine. MEC is

fortunate to have been involved with this project from its inception. MEC completed the first JORC

Reserves in 2010 which progressed into a Bankable Feasibility Study, the outcome of which assisted in the

company achieving funding in a very tough environment. The mine has now progressed into operations

and MEC are continuing to support Cockatoo Coal with mine planning, onsite operational and offsite

consulting support.

CORPORATE SERVICES

ASSET MANAGEMENT

PROJECT EVALUATION

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT

RISK AND HAZARD MANAGEMENT

CONTRACT AND TENDER EVALUATION

AT MEC MINING, OUR CORPORATE SERVICES TEAM CAN PROVIDE YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE

MANAGEMENT TOOLS IT NEEDS TO PROSPER.

OUR TEAM HAS SPECIALIST EXPERIENCE IN :

CORPORATE SERVICES

GEOLOGICAL SERVICES

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

GEOLOGICALLY MODELLING

JORC REPORTS

DATA MANAGEMENT

EXPLORATION MANAGEMENT

GEOLOGICAL SERVICESAT MEC MINING OUR GEOLOGY TEAM OFFERS EXPERTISE IN COARSE GOLD, BASE METAL

AND COAL EXPLORATION FROM GRASSROOTS TO ADVANCED STAGE RESOURCE DRILLING

CAMPAIGNS. OUR EXPERIENCED TEAM HAS A VAST RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE INCLUDING

NEAR-MINE AND MINE-EXTENSION WORK FROM SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND WORKINGS.

OUR SERVICE OFFERING COVERS:

METALS CAPABILITY

Drill & blast , truck & shovel, haulage and dump design & optimisation

Ventilation engineering

Training and mentoring of on-site personnel and systems development and review

Operational design, planning, scheduling and optimisation including supply of

software where necessary

Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement

Short to medium term design, planning and scheduling solutions

Technical services teams for full project support

Ventilation and Drill & Blast Capability (Underground)

Relief role coverage from technical services engineers, geologists and surveyors

through to management positions

ONSITE OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

Surpac & MinSched Mine2-4D & EPS Deswik CAD & Scheduler Minex

Vulcan / Vulcan Optimiser Minesight Minescape

XPAC / XACT TALPAC XERAS 3D Dig

ArcGIS DataVis Shotplus / BLASTPLAN Ventsim

SOFTWARE (UNDERGROUND AND OPEN CUT)

CONSULTING SERVICES SUPPORT

COMMODITIES

Studies - conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility

JORC resource and reserve reporting

Scheduling model builds

Contract and tender evaluation

Life of mine planning, scheduling and long term planning, optimisation, design and

scheduling

Cost modelling and project optimisation

Asset Management

Contract and tender evaluation

Base Metals Precious Metals Bulk Commodities

Mineral Sands & Rare Earths

METALS CAPABILITY AT MEC MINING, WE COMBINE OUR EXPERIENCES TO OFFER A UNIQUE LEVEL OF SUPPORT

WITH TWO MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS:

OPEN CUT METALS

Commodity:

Gold / Silver / Copper

Commodity:

Copper / Gold

Commodity:

Silver / Lead / Zinc

Commodity:

Silver / Lead / Zinc /

Copper / Gold

Commodity:

Copper / Gold

Commodity:

Iron ore

Project / Deposit Style

Small scale open pit - high-sulphidation epithermal style deposit.

Project Experience:

Short to long term planning, drill and blast, system setup, long term

pit design updates and cutback design.


Multiple open pits - near surface high grade supergene chalcocite

and oxide copper, disseminated gold, oxide and primary.

Project Experience:

Short-long term planning and design, engineer training and

mentoring, operations support and contractor management.


Large scale open pit - shale hosted, fine grained mineralisation.

Project Experience:

Operations support, short-long term planning, geological modelling,

reserving, pit design, drill and blast.


Underground - massive through to vein like sulphides.

Project Experience:

Site engineering support, life of asset scheduling.


Small satellite open pits - greenfields.

Project Experience:

Operations support and mine design.


Open pit arctic conditions - banded iron formation.

Project Experience:

Mine planning, operation systems and support, life of mine planning.

UNDERGROUND METALS

Project:

Cannington, North

Queensland

Commodity:

Silver / Lead / Zinc

Project:

Selwyn / Mt Elliott,

North Queensland

Commodity:

Copper / Gold

Project:

Elura / Endeavor,

Cobar, NSW

Commodity:

Lead / Zinc / Silver

Project:

Challenger, South

Australia

Commodity:

Gold

Project:

Rosebery, Tasmania

Commodity:

Silver / Lead / Zinc /

Copper / Gold

Project:

Osborne, North

Queensland

Commodity:

Copper / Gold


Transverse, Long-hole open stoping / in ag-rich massive sulphide

lenses.

Project Experience:

Planning, design and scheduling, project engineering, and

underground engineering.


Open stoping / in massive sulphides and narrow-vein.

Project Experience:

Underground management, Drill and Blast, planning and

scheduling, ventilation.


Long-hole open stoping and remnant pillar mining / in massive

sulphides.

Project Experience:

Underground mining, Drill and Blast, planning and scheduling,

ventilation.


Long-hole stoping / in narrow-vein mineralisation.

Project Experience:

Short-term to medium-term planning, Life-of-Mine planning &

scheduling, strategic reviews.


Long-hole open stoping / in massive through to vein-like sulphides.

Project Experience:

Site engineering, Life of Asset Scheduling.


Up-hole bench stoping / in ironstone hosted replacement style

copper and gold.

Project Experience:

Mine Geology.

COAL CAPABILITY

Minescape ArcGIS Minesight

Datamine DataVis Mine 2-4D & EPS

AutoCAD Deswik Vulcan

Xpac Xeras Micromine

COAL CAPABILITY AT MEC MINING, WE COMBINE EXPERIENCES TO OFFER A UNIQUE LEVEL OF SUPPORT WITH

TWO MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS:

CONSULTING SERVICES SUPPORT

ONSITE OPERATION SUPPORT

METHODOLIGIES

SOFTWARE (UNDERGROUND AND OPEN CUT)

Studies- conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility

JORC resource and reserve reporting

Scheduling model builds

Life of mine planning, long term planning, optimisation, design and scheduling

Cost modelling and project optimisation

Technical services teams for full project support

Operational design, planning and scheduling

Operational review, cost modelling and operational improvement

Training and mentoring of on-site personnel and systems development and review

Short to medium term design, planning and scheduling solutions

Relief role coverage from technical services engineers, geologists and surveyors

through to management positions such as Senior Engineer and other Statutory roles

Ventilation (Underground)

Development planning (Underground)

Conventional open cut

Strip mining

Terrace mine

Dragline

Dozer Push

Truck shovel

IP systems ie IPCC

Longwall Mining

Board and Pillar

Hydro Mining

Conventional and Mechanised

Open cut: Underground:

OPEN CUT COAL CAPABILITY

Project:

Carmichael Mine,

Queensland

Commodity:

Coal - Thermal

Project:

Hail Creek Mine,

Queensland

Commodity:

Coal - Metallurgical

Project:

Baralaba North,

Queensland

Commodity:

Coal - PCI and

Thermal

Project:

Tigers Realm, Amaam

North Russia

Commodity:


and Thermal

Project:

Cameby Downs,

Queensland

Commodity:

Coal - Thermal

Project:

Oaky Creek Mine,

Queensland

Commodity:



Open cut / Shallow dip

Project Experience:

Project Experience- Build of a Deswik schedule and haulage model for

the 8 year open cut plan including haulage and landform, scheduling of

alternate operating scenarios using Xpac for the Feasibility Study.


Open cut / Shallow to steep dip

Project Experience:

Ramp 6 Boxcut design and planning, dragline sequence and spoil balancing,

generated final landform quantities from life of mine dump profile.

Operational planning for the dragline and short term scheduling, build of a

Deswik haulage and landform model including the IPCC and Xact short term

schedule model.


Open cut / Steep Dip

Project Experience:

Bankable feasibility study, Detailed mine planning , Cost modelling,

calculation and publishing of a JORC reserve statement, Drill and Blast

engineer support.


Moderately steep dip open cut, underground

Project Experience:

Pre-feasibility study.


Open cut / Not steep

Project Experience:

Onsite drill and blast engineering support, onsite scheduling and short

term planning.


Open cut

Project Experience:

Pre feasibility study including the schedule model build, reserving,

haulage and landform. Calculations in Deswik , scheduling in Xpac,

modelling of overburden strata Oaky North mine and onsite geology

support

UNDERGROUND COAL CAPABILITY

Project:

Pre-feasibility Study,

Queensland

Commodity:


Project:

Carborough Downs,

Queensland

Commodity:


Project:

Oaky Creek Coal,

Queensland

Commodity:


Project:

Ventilation Shaft,

Queensland

Commodity:


Project:

Integra, New South

Wales

Commodity:


Project:

Surface to Seam Gas

Drainage, Queensland

Commodity:



Underground Coal Resource

Project Experience:

Undertook a pre-feasbility study for a brownfield project on an

existing mine site.


Underground Longwall and Bord and Pillar Operation

Project Experience:

A member of the management team that conducted the entire process

from concept study, construction and operation at Carborough Downs.


Underground Longwall

Project Experience:

Operational support within the Technical Services department

performing geological, geotechnical and superintendent roles.


Underground Longwall Ventilation Shaft construction

Project Experience:

Project managed from mobilisation to commissioning of the ventilation

shaft sinking. Site was signed off on acceptance as intake ventilation

airway.


Underground Longwall and Open Cut Truck & Shovel

Project Experience:

Implementation of the Long Term Planning process, project managed the

strategic planning process,and conducted the supply chain process for

the complex.


Long-hole open stoping & remnant pillar mining / in massive sulphides

and sub-vertical lenses.

Project Experience:

Project managed trial of medium radius drilling gas drainage project.

This early trial proved successful with some innovation to the drilling

techniques.

GENERAL ENQUIRIES:

[email protected]

PO Box 10652, Brisbane QLD 4000

www.mecmining.com

+61 7 3832 0301

+61 7 4957 2734

+56 9 5646 2123

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