About Us
Experience is…Boots on the ground
History
Multi-service consultancy providing deep technical and financial knowledge.
Minserve was founded in 1989 to provide specialist services to mine operators and the mining sector. Since then, the Group has added new skills and capabilities to meet expanding resource sector requirements to become one of the foremost mining consultancies in Australia.
The structure of Minserve was devised to enable independent member consultants to provide an integrated service to the mining industry.
Individual members have graduated from senior operations and technical management positions in some of Australia’s largest open-cut and underground mines. All have wide experience in the resources industry and several hold statutory Mining Certificates of Competency for the metalliferous and/or coal sectors.
Minserve's skills base is ideally structured to provide a personalised and high quality technical service on both small and large projects. Our skill and commitment will make the difference to your project.
Our People
Optimisation starts with experience
Russell Aspland
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AD (CARTOGRAPHY)
Over 30 years of experience in cartography, graphic design and illustration, primarily for the mining industry. Specialising in high-quality CAD outputs for mine planning, mine closure visualisations, and environmental studies using Autocad, ARC Gis. Preparation of data and supporting documents for Qld's for ERC and PRCP legislation. racad.com
Rodney Bedggood
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BE MINING, GRAD AIC DIRECTORS, GRAD DIP APPLIED FINANCE & INVESTMENT, QLD SSE COAL-UG MET, WA 1ST CLASS MINE MANAGER'S CERT
Over 26 years of managerial, operational and technical mining experience, which is underpinned by a BE Mining and a Grad Dip Applied Finance and Investment.
Rodney’s experience covers a variety of commodities including gold, lead, zinc, silver, copper and coal in both underground and open pit operations throughout Australia and Internationally.
Mark Bryant
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BE (HONS) MINING, MAUSIMM
Over 25 years of evaluation, planning and operational experience in coal mines and stratified deposits; specialising in pit design and scheduling, project evaluation, reserve statements and evaluation of established and innovative mining methods and systems. A skilled and experienced user of mine planning software.
Tony Harrison
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BE (HONS) MINING, CERT. APPLIED FINANCE, UNDERGROUND SHIFT SUPERVISORS CERT
Over 25 years of mine consulting, project development and operational experience in open cut and underground mining. Recent projects include due diligence acquisition studies, strategic planning and evaluation, scoping through to feasibility studies, execution planning and tender preparation in Australia and offshore.
Conor te Kloot
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BE MINING (HONS), MAUSIMM (CP), RPEQ
Conor is a Mining Engineer with 15 years of experience in open cut and underground mining in multiple operations for different mining companies. His background includes both technical and operation roles. With experience across a range of commodities, mine and geological settings, company scale and geographic locations. This includes experience in underground stoping and caving, and open pit strip mining.
Dan Gosper
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BE MINING, DIP MGT, SSE,MAUSIMM
Dan has significant experience across various operational, technical and management roles of open cut mining. Key skills include legislative compliance, costing and financial evaluation, mine planning, technical review, mine optimisation, investigation lead, and general study management. His background includes statutory mine management, project management, continuous improvement and project evaluation.
David Drew
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BE MINING, MAUSIMM
David has 18 years of experience in open-cut mining in both operational, corporate planning, technical and consulting roles. Recent consulting projects include due diligence studies in Australia, strategic mine planning, JORC reserve generation and planning on various mine expansion and mine optimisation projects.
Paul Stewart
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CERTIFICATE OF CARTOGRAPHY
Over 50 years of experience in cartography, plan production, technical graphics and mining tenements for the mining industry. CAD outputs for mine planning, environmental studies, cadastral and geological maps using GIS, Autocad and graphics software.
Hsin-Wei Wu
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DIP. MINING, M ENG SC, PHD, MAUSIMM.
Over 20 years of experience in consulting, teaching and research in mine ventilation and mining economics including mine ventilation design and planning, mine ventilation surveys, mine fire simulation and emergency preparedness, real time ventilation monitoring, contaminants monitoring and control, economics of mine development and mining financial techniques.
James Bartlett
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BE (HONS) MINING, MAUSIMM
With a decade in the mining industry, James has extensive experience in both underground and open pit mining operations, across a broad range of commodities and mining methods. James specialises in long term and strategic mine planning (Deswik), as well as cost modelling and studies at various levels.
Jonathan Kelly
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BE MINING (HONS)
Jonathan is a qualified Mining Engineer with over 10 years of experience in both opencut and underground mine engineering and operations, including experience as a mining and production supervisor. Proficient in software packages such as Deswik, Spry, Vulcan, XPAC, Talpac, 3D Dig.
Lachlan McInnes
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BE MINING
Lachlan is a Mining Engineer with 8 years of experience across a variety of different commodities and operations. His skills include operational design and scheduling with expertise in using and developing Deswik Models. Furthermore, he has helped developed detailed Final Rehabilitated Landform Designs which show the costs associated with chosen design constraints.
Brendan Spanner
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M MINING, GD MINING, MAUSIMM
Brendan is a Mining Engineer with 12 years experience in underground mining in multiple operations for different mining companies. His background includes both technical and operational roles.
He has experience across a range of commodities, mine and geological settings, company scale and geographic locations. This includes experience in sub-level caving, block caving and stoping.
David Hornsby
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BE MINING (HONS), MAUSIMM (CP), RPEQ
Over 40 years of experience in minerals processing, coal preparation and coal quality including plant commissioning and operation; planning and management of bore core and bulk sampling testing programs; flowsheet development, simulation; yield prediction and product specification; plant audits, feasibility studies and due diligence and technical assessment. Experienced user of process simulation software.
Rowan Johnson
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MCELROY BRYAN GEOLOGICAL SERVICES
Since 1970, McElroy Bryan Geological Services (MBGS) has provided high-quality service to the Australian and international coal mining industry. Our senior management team each has 20 to 45 years experience as a coal geologist in Australia and the international arena. As a result, we have an extensive appreciation of the geology of coal deposits around the world.
Hayden Jones
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BE MINING, MAUSIMM, QLD LIMITED MINE MANAGER'S CERTIFICATE, QLD OPEN CUT EXAMINER CERTIFICATE
Over 25 years of experience in open cut mining including mine operations, management, project management, due diligence, mine optimisation, mine planning and scheduling. Skilled and experienced user of mine planning software including MINEX, Minescape, XPAC and Talpac.
Global Experience
Collective experience covers all aspects of the coal, metalliferous and extractive minerals industries from initial exploration through evaluation studies and project development to operations support.
Projects completed cover a diverse range including:
- Operations audits
- Mine ventilation
- Network and fire simulations
- Due diligence studies
- JORCcode compliant statements
- Investment opportunity analyses
- Mine planning
- Contract technical services
- Rock stress analyses
- Expert witness advice
- Feasibility studies
- Preparation plant
- Design and upgrades
- Competitor studies
- Resource evaluation