Itasca Australia maintains a diverse, accomplished staff of engineers. Backgrounds range from field engineers experienced in all aspects of mining operations to research and development engineers in rock and soil mechanics. Maintaining a broad-based pool of engineering expertise is critical to achieving our goal to provide clients with practical, focused results that produce the most advantageous solutions to their particular problems. Additionally, the diverse background of personnel ensures that staff are thoroughly familiar with typical design and construction issues and are also uniquely equipped to attack challenging or non-standard problems, while providing practical solutions. Itasca Australia's capabilities and project work cover a large range of applications, including areas such as:
- evaluation and layout of underground mining methods and sequencing for existing mines and new orebodies
- specification of ground support for civil or mining excavations
- numerical modelling and analysis of surface and underground stability problems in geomechanics, including pillar stability and rockburst potential evaluations, dynamic analysis of underground excavations and earthquake analysis for liquefaction potential of dams and foundations
- analysis and design of open pit slopes, tailings dams and waste dumps
- analysis and design of large underground excavations including storage caverns, subway stations, crusher chambers, hoist rooms and hydro power stations
- analysis of mining and excavation induced subsidence
- foundation design and analysis
- due diligence reviews and audits for safety and mine planning purposes
All Itasca Australia engineers have extensive work experience in the mining and civil construction industries, and are familiar with the problems faced by on-site engineers and management. We strive to develop a close working relationship with each client, so that we fully understand their needs, and to develop solutions to problems that are innovative, cost effective and sensitive to the practicalities of implementation. We recognize the importance of staying in touch with the daily realities that comprise each project. In this way, when clients see the final result of our work, they know how it was conceived and executed.
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- Underground Mine Design
- Slope Stability and Design of Pit Slopes
- Cave Mining
- Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM)
- Flow of Caved Rock
- Subsidence Evaluation
- Underground Infrastructure Design
- Mine Backfill
- Tunneling
- Borehole Stability
- Retaining Structures
- Foundations
- Process Engineering
- Waste Isolation
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Bre-Anne Sainsbury — geotechnical engineering. Ms. Sainsbury has worked as a consultant in the civil, mining and environmental industries both in Australia and the USA, and has extensive experience in site investigation and instrumentation. She also is experienced in the practical application of numerical models to soil/foundation interaction, slope stability, including tailings basin design, and underground mine design and planning.
cv David Sainsbury — mining, geotechnical engineering. Dr. Sainsbury is a geotechnical engineer specializing in the stability analysis of underground mines and large-scale open pits. He has operations experience in the analysis, design and monitoring of large-scale open-pit slopes, along with applied-research and consulting experience in the areas of mine backfill, exposure stability, extraction strategy design in burst-prone environments, caveability analysis and mining-induced subsidence evaluation.
cv | publications David Wines — rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering. David is a geotechnical engineer with extensive experience in both the mining and civil industries. He has on-site and research experience in the analysis, design, implementation, and monitoring of large-scale open pits. He also has experience as a consultant in various civil and mining projects involving foundations, retaining structures, dams, pavements and soil and rock laboratory testing programs.
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