Underground Mining
Planning and designing
For over 30 years Minserve has been providing clients with underground mining assistance and expertise. Through this time, we have obtained a wealth of underground metals and coal experience over all aspects of operations, technical and mine management, across all major commodities. This includes all facets of design, scheduling, ventilation, mine operations, safety, contract tendering and statutory management.
As underground mining has evolved over the last 30 years, Minserve have been at the forefront of this progression, working with some of the world leading cave and sub-level caving operations. This has given Minserve the tools to provide industry leading solutions to any underground mining situation.
Minserve’ underground services range from onsite operational assistance to all forms of studies and can be tailored to suit the client needs. Our capability is underpinned by extensive operational experience and robust technical capabilities that range all major mining softwares.
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.
- Technical expertise across all underground mining methods from
- caving, to stoping, to longwall operations
- Underground mining infrastructure
- Contract tendering
- Specialist ventilation support
- Statutory management and ventilation capabilities
- Strategic mine planning studies (options studies, Hill of Value, etc)
- Studies, from concept to bankable feasibility
- Cost modelling
The Minserve team includes experienced users of leading mine planning and geological modelling software tools.
- Vulcan
- Surpac Minex
- Spry
- Deswik
- XPAC and TALPAC
- HaulSIM
In addition to off-the-shelf packages, Minserve personnel have developed a range of in-house modelling tools to solve site specific challenges as they arise.