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CORPORATE PROFILE

Mining consultancy | Mine planning | 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 - PRINCIPALS & PROJECT LEADS

JAMEY MITCHELSON | PRINCIPAL MINING ENGINEERADSvy MAusIMM

Jamey graduated with an Associate Degree in Surveying in 2004 and is currently completing post

graduate Mine Engineering studies. He has 24 years of site based open cut mining experience in

technical, operational and management capacities (21 years in open cut coal and 3 years in metals).

Jamey has recently joined MEC Mining as a Principal Mining Engineer and specialises in mine design,

scheduling and mine cost analysis & control.

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.

DAVID PLOWMAN | PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANTB Eng (Mining)

David Plowman joined the MEC team in February, 2015 as a Principal Mining Consultant. He has

more than 20 years’ experience in the coal, copper and gold mining industries, having worked

extensively in both technical and operational roles.

Highly adept at delivering successful mining projects, David has managed owner-operator

operations and mine-contracting companies in both the West and developing countries.

TIM COOPER | PROJECT LEAD

SHYAM SUNDER | PROJECT LEAD

BSc

BEng (Mining)

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 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.

SERVICES

RECENT INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS


Projects that we have recently undertaken include:

Location: Laos

Commodity: Copper and Gold (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Onsite drill and blast training and optimisation

• LG pit optimisation to model the effect of various sustaining capital projects

• Onsite supervision of projects, training of staff and engineering services

• Secondment in a project management role for Sepon project studies

Services Delivered

• Cost Modelling • Mine Design

• Deswik Model Build • Onsite Engineering

• Drill and Blast • Project Management

• Equipment Selection • Scheduling

• Feasibility Study • Training

• Haulage Planning • Lerchs Grossman Optimisation

PROJECT: SEPON

Location: Western Australia, Australia

Commodity: Zinc and Copper (Underground)

Project Scope

• Net Smelter Return (NSR)

• Macro audit validation and modification/updates

Services Delivered

• Technical Audit, validation of the NSR estimation

PROJECT: GOLDEN GROVE

Location: Peru

Commodity: Copper (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Short term planning model

Services Delivered

• Re-established onsite schedule processes and systems

• Mine plan schedule

PROJECT: LAS BAMBAS

Location: Australia

Commodity: Lead and Zinc (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Onsite engineering support for short term planning

• Review of mining practises and reconciliation to the model

Services Delivered

• Grade Control • Mine Design

• Reconciliation • Onsite Engineering

• Review

PROJECT: CENTURY MINE

Location: Australia

Commodity: Copper, Gold, Lead and Zinc (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Life of mine, stope design and mine scheduling


Services Delivered

• Mine Planning • Mine Scheduling

• Drill & Blast • Design

• Mine Studies

PROJECT: ROSEBURY

Location: Nicaragua

Commodity: Civil

Project Scope

• Development of stripping concepts and equipment strategies

• Development of the earthworks project cost model

• Development of a Deswik schedule, landform model and haulage simulation

Services Delivered

• Cost Modelling • Scheduling

• Deswik Model Build • Truck Shovel Engineering

• Equipment Selection • Haulage Planning

PROJECT: NICARAGUA CANAL

Location: Queensland, Australia

Commodity: Lead and Zinc (Underground)

Project Scope


• Macro audit validation and modifcation/updates

Services Delivered

• Technical Audit, validation of the NSR estimation

PROJECT: DUGALD

Location: Australia

Commodity: Coal (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Open cut pre-feasibility study

• Underground Concept Study

• Work Exploration Program

PROJECT: HILLALONG



Location: China

Commodity: Gold (Underground)

Project Scope

• Vulcan Optimisation

Services Delivered

• Pit Optimisation

• Cost Evaluation

PROJECT: YUNNAN GOLD

Location: Western Australia, Australia

Commodity: Copper and Gold (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Onsite drill and blast training and optimisation

• LG pit optimisation to model the effect of various sustaining capital projects

• Onsite supervision of projects, training of staff and engineering services

• Secondment in a project management role for Sepon project studies

Services Delivered

• Cost Modelling • Feasibility Study

• Deswik Model Build • Mine Design

• Drill and Blast • Haulage Planning

• Equipment Selection • Lerchs Grossman Optimisation

PROJECT: YANCOAL PREMIER

Location: Australia

Commodity: Coal (Open Cut)

Project Scope

• Onsite drill and blast engineering

• Onsite scheduling and short term planning

Services Delivered

• Drill and Blast • Onsite Engineering

• Scheduling • Short Term Planning

PROJECT: CAMEBY DOWNS



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

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

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