POBA has provided specialist advice pertaining to:
Open Pit
- Assessment of ground influence on wall stability and slope stability management
- Slope failure remediation and stabilisation
- Geotechnical mapping of pit walls using traditional methods and Sirovision photogrammetry
- Design of rock reinforcement for berm crests
- Minimisation of blast damage to batters
- Design of slope monitoring schemes and interpretation of monitoring results
Underground
- Portal establishment and ground support requirements
- Site selection for in-situ stress measurements using the over-coring method
- Shaft stability assessment, construction method selection and sidewall support
- Numerical modelling of stope extraction sequences and results interpretation
- Ground support design and implementation for challenging rock mass conditions
Civil Construction Projects
- Slope stabilisation and ground support for excavation and construction
- Ground support design for TBM access shafts and portals
Other
- High level geotechnical review of mining operations as part of due diligence reviews for financial institutions
- Preparation of Ground Control Management Plans and other geotechnical documents to comply with government statutory guidelines for open pit and underground mining.
Clients have engaged POBA to undertake work in a wide variety of commodities including: gold, silver, nickel, iron ore, graphite, lithium, cobalt, chromium, copper, lead, zinc, diamonds, manganese, niobium, silicon, scandium, vanadium, tantalum, tin, phosphate, kaolin.
POBA has undertaken work at a large number of mines and prospects throughout Australia and internationally including: Algeria, Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, PR China, DR Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Indonesia, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mongolia, New Zealand, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
