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Mining and Geotechnical Consultants

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SRK Consulting is an independent, international consulting practice providing focused advice and solutions to the earth and water resource industries. For mining projects, we offer services from exploration to mine closure.

Established in 1974, SRK employs more than 1,400 professionals internationally in over 45 offices on six continents.

Mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and career geologists

We employ leading mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and career geologists. Our integrated services and global presence have made the company a leading international practice in due diligence, mining feasibility studies, mine waste management and mine closure.

We employ leading mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and careers geologists, who can use a range of geological modeling codes.
Our mining services include mining feasibility studies, mine design, mine planning, equipment selection and rock engineering.
Our tailings experience includes various ore types and disposal methodologies.
We develop solutions to mine drainage issues.
We have extensive experience in tunnel investigation, design and construction monitoring.

Exploration, geological and resource consulting services

Our geological services include structural interpretations to establish controls on mineralization, geological modeling, remote sensing, geophysical data interpretation and exploration program management.

Models for mining feasibility studies

We prepare resource models, based on a sound understanding of the underlying geology for mining feasibility studies, operating mines and evaluations. Our geostatistical experts apply the most appropriate methods, ensuring that geological and geometric controls are considered throughout the estimation process.

For independent reporting, we have “qualified persons” in many jurisdictions to facilitate reporting in accordance with the CNI 43-101, JORC and other applicable codes.

Mining pre-feasibility studies and mining feasibility studies

SRK employs experienced mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and career geologists with a strong operational background. We offer mining consultancy services for due diligence audits, technical reports, scoping studies, and mining pre-feasibility studies and mining feasibility studies compliant with relevant standards.

Our services include mine designs, layouts, production scheduling and equipment selection. We use a range of software including AutoCAD, Gemcom, Whittle, Vulcan, MineSight and Mine2-4D.

Underground and open-pit rock engineering

Our mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and career geologists have extensive experience in both underground and open-pit rock engineering for projects involving precious and base metals, diamonds and industrial minerals. By combining expertise in rock mechanics with an understanding of the mining business, we provide practical advice to reduce project risks.

Tailings, heap leach and waste rock management

SRK Consulting is extensively involved in permitting, design, operation and closure of mine tailings, waste rock and associated water disposal/management facilities. Our experience includes a wide range of mine waste products, extensive geochemical knowledge, hands-on knowledge of proven management techniques and a broad range of climates and seismic regimes. We provide management solutions that can be practically implemented and successfully completed.

Ore placement and solution management greatly influence the design and layout of earthworks for heap leach facilities. Our approach is to assess and optimize earthwork and lining requirements based on the topographic and geotechnical characteristics of the site, the engineering characteristics of the ore, and the project’s environmental objectives.

Our design teams provide comprehensive services for tailings, heap leach and waste facilities. These include site selection, geotechnical and geochemical investigations, construction-level design, specification and bid document preparation, and construction quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA).

Environmental, water and mine closure consulting services

SRK’s practical experience with a range of mining facilities – in cold, wet and arid climates on all continents – assures that we identify critical environmental issues on your project. We create risk-based frameworks to facilitate decision making for project acquisition, permitting, operation and closure.

Our water professionals can assist with mine water management, water supply and water quality strategies. We regularly develop solutions to mine drainage issues – ranging from severe acidity to unusual trace elements – for new mine permitting, optimization of existing operations and closure plans.

We have worked with clients to develop closure plans at all stages of the mine life cycle, and have successfully implemented these plans at many properties.

Civil and geotechnical consulting services

SRK Consulting’s mining consultants, geotechnical consultants and career geologists have extensive experience with geotechnical investigations and design for foundations, tunnels and dams.

White Papers

  • Managing Mineral Resource Risk

    A mineral resource is a concentration or occurrence of solid material of economic interest in or on the Earth's crust in such form, grade or quality and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction.

Press Releases

  • Converting Data into Information into Decisions

    At SRK, we understand the dynamics of mining: the variability of the deposit, the practical constraints which prevent ideal solutions from being implemented, the challenges of working in remote locations, the factors which really drive costs, etc. 

  • SRK at Mine Closure 2019

    SRK will be holding a number of technical presentations at Mine Closure 2019 in Perth, Australia, next month.

  • SRK to Host SEC Mining Disclosure Workshop

    This short course provides an overview to help mining companies and investors understand the new disclosure requirements and provide management with a strategy for navigating the changes and achieving compliance ahead of time.

  • SRK Consulting Merges with Labrecque Technologies, Inc.

    SRK Canada is delighted to announce its merger with Labrecque Technologies Inc. LTI specializes in conducting dynamic process simulations to help mining companies predict future performance so they can optimize productivity and avoid costly mistakes.

  • Improving Mill Feed: A Miner's Perspective

    Over the decades, with decreasing ore deposit grades, miners have turned to economies of scale and bulk mining to gain advantage. This has resulted in an inherent dilution of feed to the mill. However, a point is being reached for most ore deposits where the mill feed grades for the selective mining unit (SMU) sizes are too low to be deemed economic. So what can we do to improve mill feed?

  • H2O Insight a Critical Resource

    Groundwater is a critical ingredient in production at most mines in Australia. So, Brian Luinstra finds it astounding that many mine operators still see demonstrating the viability of a water source as a “regulatory tick box” rather than a critical factor in the feasibility of their projects.

  • DRC: The Right Time for Exploration is Now

    With the improvements in the copper price, mining interest will soon be returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to SRK Consulting country manager Susa Maleba.

  • SRK Global Appoints New Chairman

    SRK Global has appointed Corporate Consultant Jeff Parshley as its new chairman. Jeff brings to the role 35 years of worldwide project experience, including 28 with SRK (US).

  • SRK Consulting Welcomes Back Engineer Steve Boyce

    SRK Consulting welcomes back the familiar face of Steve Boyce, an engineering and environmental permitting expert who worked at SRK's Elko office from 2000 to 2008. With 28 years of local and international mining experience focused on environmental permitting and mine development, operations, and closure, Steve has extensive knowledge to share with SRK Elko.

  • SRK Consulting Merges with Mine Ventilation Services (MVS)

    SRK is pleased to announce that it is merging MVS's ventilation services into its US practice. MVS specializes in addressing engineering and ventilation challenges associated with mining operations and other subsurface facilities. The amalgamation aligns with both companies' visions of expanding their reach and services within the mining and minerals industries.

  • SRK Opens Hong Kong Office

    SRK Consulting, one of the world's largest resources consulting groups, has opened a new practice in Hong Kong, its 7th in Asia and 50th around the globe.

  • SRK Re-Enters Peru

    SRK Consulting has repositioned itself to grow with Peru's expanding mining industry through a merger with Lima-based firm, SVS Ingenieros.

  • SRK Opens Second Office in Argentina

    SRK Consulting is expanding its presence in Argentina, opening a second office in the country to service the increasing demand from mining industry clients. The new office in Mendoza will complement SRK’s Buenos Aires office, which opened two years ago. SRK Argentina managing director

  • SRK Global Appoints New Chairman

    SRK Global has appointed a new chairman, Mike Armitage, who has been with the company for 20 years. A geologist by profession, Armitage has been instrumental in the company's expansion into Europe and Russia and has worked in the minerals industry for more than 25 years. He replaces SRK

  • SRK Opens Mongolia Office

    SRK Consulting expects staff numbers in its new office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to increase significantly next year as exploration and development activity in the country's nascent mining sector accelerates. Having built a successful presence in China, and serviced the Mongolia market

  • SRK Opens New Office in Zacatecas, Mexico

    A strong resurgence in investment activity in Mexico's minerals industry in the wake of the GFC as well as solid relationships with a number of key clients have prompted SRK Consulting to open its fourth office in Latin America. The leading international mining consultancy inaugurated

  • SRK Australia Turns 15

    Leading multi-disciplinary consulting firm SRK Australia is recruiting again after a hiatus in the first half of 2009. If the past 15 years is anything to go by, the new arrivals can expect to see plenty of the world if they stick around. The Australian business arm of global compa

  • SRK Poised to Grow with Argentinian Mining Industry

    The Argentinian mining industry may still be small compared with Australia, Canada and Chile, but SRK Consulting believes it has huge potential. VS Consultores (VSC), a Buenos Aires-based consultancy that has been working with SRK's Chile office for seven years, is an ideal entry point into the c

  • SRK Opens Second Chinese Office

    Increasing opportunities in China have convinced leading consulting group SRK Consulting to open a second office in the country, in Nanchang. The new office in Jiangxi Province represents a sister operation to the existing Beijing branch, opened in 2005. Dr Yonglian Sun, managing direct

  • SRK Opens Jakarta Office

    SRK Consulting has opened a new office in Jakarta in a move aimed at cementing a stronger foothold in the expanding Indonesian mining market. The office expands existing ties to the region established via a number of major projects that SRK has been working on over many years, according

  • SRK Group Celebrates 35 Years in Business

    After 35 years in business, SRK Consulting has plenty of reasons to be excited about the future. Established in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1974 by three talented and enterprising consultants, the company has not only grown to almost 900 staff in 2009, but has also spread its global

Projects

  • Scotia Mine, Nova Scotia, Canada

    The Scotia mine is a fully-permitted zinc-lead open-pit mine located in the province of Nova Scotia in Canada and is owned by y ScoZinc, a Canadian metals mining company.

  • Candelaria Copper Mining Complex

    The Candelaria mining complex includes the Candelaria and Ojos del Salado copper mining operations in the Atacama region, Chile. The mines produce copper concentrates from open-pit and underground mines.

  • Hope Bay Gold Mine, Nunavut

    The Hope Bay gold mine is located approximately 685km northeast of Yellow Knife and 125km south-west of Cambridge bay, in the western Nunavut territory of Canada, one of the top ten gold producing countries.

  • Salares Norte Project

    The Salares Norte project is a blind epithermal gold and silver deposit in the Atacama region of northern Chile.

  • Cascabel Copper-Gold Project

    The Cascabel copper-gold project is a large high-grade copper-gold porphyry exploration mine located in the Cascabel region of northern Ecuador.

  • Phoenix Gold Project, Red Lake, Ontario

    The Phoenix gold project involves the development of an underground mine in the Red Lake district of Ontario, Canada, which is one of the largest gold producing countries in the world.

  • Madaouela Uranium Project

    Madaouela is an advanced-stage uranium project being developed near Arlit in north-central Niger. The project is located within the most significant sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in the world.

  • Damang Gold Mine

    Spread across an area of 23,666ha, the Damang Gold mine is located 30km north of Tarkwa in South West Ghana. The mine is owned and operated by Abosso Goldfields (AGL), which is owned by Gold Fields Ghana Holdings (71.1%), IAMGOLD (18.9%) and the Ghanaian Government (10%).

  • Windfall Lake Gold Project, Quebec

    Windfall Lake is a high-grade gold mine owned by Osisko Mining, previously known as Oban Mining Corporation. It was earlier owned by Eagle Hill Exploration, which was acquired by Osisko in August 2015.

  • Karma Gold Mine

    The Karma Gold Mine is an open-pit mine located 20km east of Ouahigouya and approximately 185km north-west of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

  • Bovill Kaolin Project, Idaho

    I-Minerals’ Bovill Kaolin Project, covering a total area of 5,140.6 acres, is located near the town of Bovill, in Latah County, Idaho, US.

  • Ngualla Rare Earth Project

    The Ngualla Rare Earth Project is located approximately 4.5km north of the village of Ngwala, and 147km from Mbeya in the edge of the East African Rift Valley, southern Tanzania.

  • Namoya Gold Mine, Maniema

    Namoya open-pit gold mine is located in the Maniema Province of Democratic Republic of the Congo. The mine is situated at the southwestern end of the 210km-long Twangiza-Namoya gold belt, and is owned by Banro Corporation (Banro).

  • Tongo Diamond Project

    Stellar Diamonds’ wholly owned Tongo Diamond Project is located within the mining licence EXPL05/07, roughly 45km north-north-east (NNE) of the regional town of Kenema, Sierra Leone.

  • Kvanefjeld Rare Earth – Uranium Project

    Greenland Minerals and Energy's (GMEL) flagship Kvanefjeld Rare Earth - Uranium Project is located within the municipality of Kujalleq, approximately 8km from the town of Narsaq, and 35km from Narsarsuaq, in southern Greenland.

  • Okvau Gold Project

    The Okvau Gold Project involves the development of the Okvau Deposit, which is located in the Mondulkiri province of eastern Cambodia, approximately 275km north-east of the capital city, Phnom Penh.

Products & services

  • Geology, Resources and Exploration

    With state-of-the-art targeting tools, we can minimise your risks, cut your costs and reduce your timeframes. Our independent assessments and advice provide the basis for your decision making.

  • Mining Services

    SRK's experienced personnel and practical technology give you options and solutions.

  • Mining Project Evaluation

    SRK’s experienced personnel and practical approach give you achievable options, opinions and solutions together with an understanding of the associated risks.

  • Geotechnical Engineering Services

    SRK can support your excavations, your buildings, your roads, your rivers and canals, the bridges over them and the tunnels under them.

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SRK Vancouver
Suite 2200, 1066 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6E 3X2
Canada

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SRK Lubumbashi
2056 Lukonzolwa Avenue
Quartier Golf
Congo (DRC)
Lubumbashi
South Africa

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SRK Johannesburg
265 Oxford Road
2196 Illovo
Johannesburg
South Africa

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SRK Kolkata
SRK Mining Services (India) Private Limited
CE 106, Sector-1
Salt Lake
West Bengal
Kolkata 700 064
India

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SRK Almaty
SRK Consulting (Kazakhstan) Ltd
11th Floor
Almaty
39 Gogol St
050002
Aksai
Kazakhstan

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SRK Perth
10 Richardson Street
West Perth
Level 1
Perth
WA 6005
Australia

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SRK Sydney
Level 2
44 Market Street
NSW 2000
Sydney
Australia

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SRK Brisbane
Level 5, 200 Mary Street
Queensland, 4000
Brisbane
Australia

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SRK Buenos Aires
Chile 300 (C1098AAF)
Buenos Aires
Argentina

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SRK Chile
Av Vitacura 2939
Piso 5
Santiago
Las Condes
Santiago
Chile

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SRK Belo Horizonte
Edifício Inimá de Paula
Rua Santa Rita Durão , 74 – 12º andar
Funcionários, 30.140-110
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Brazil

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SRK Moscow
Building 1, 3rd Floor
4/3 Kuznetskiy Most Street
125009 Moscow
Russia

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SRK Sweden & Finland
c/o Bright Norr AB
Storgatan 31C
931 32, Skelleftea
Sweden

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SRK Toronto
155 University Avenue, Suite 1500
Toronto
Ontario M5H 3B7
Canada

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SRK Beijing
B315 Cofco Plaza
No 8 Jianguomennei Dajie
Beijing 100005
Dongcheng District
China

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SRK Tucson
Suite 240
3275 West Ina Road
Tucson, AZ
85741
United States of America

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SRK Reno
Suite 300
5250 Neil Road
Reno, NV
89502
United States of America

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SRK Denver
1125 17th Street, Suite 600
Denver, CO
80202
United States of America

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SRK Ankara
2156. Sokak, No: 8/2
(SRK Consulting - Turkey)
Mustafa Kemal Mah., Çankaya
Ankara 06530
Turkey

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SRK Cardiff
5th Floor
Churchill House
Cardiff
17 Churchill Way
CF10 2HH
United Kingdom

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SRK Exploration Services
12 St. Andrew’s Crescent
Cardiff
CF10 3DD
United Kingdom

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SRK Accra
113A Mbabanie Lane
East Legon
PO Box KA 9159
Accra
Ghana

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SRK Mongolia
Ambassador office 4-403
Sukhbaatar District
Peace Avenue 15A/5
Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia

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SRK Peru
Av. La Paz 1227, Miraflores
Lima 15074
Peru

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SRK Anchorage
SRK Alaska
Suite 110, 11901 Business Blvd
PO Box 770401
Eagle River
99577 Alaska
United States of America

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SRK Saskatoon
Suite 600, 350 3rd Ave North
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan S7K 6G7
Canada

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