AGE has extensive experience in providing services to the mining industry including:

• Environmental impact assessment of proposed mines;
• Monitoring of subsidence impact on the groundwater regime;
• Evaluation and development of groundwater supplies;
• Groundwater inflow assessment for pits and underground mines;
• Design and installation of dewatering / depressurization / interception systems;
• Water disposal investigation, design and management;
• Mine closure and rehabilitation studies;
• Regional and site specific numerical flow and contaminant transport modelling;
• Site contamination assessment and remediation;
• Final void hydrology studies;
• Environmental compliance auditing.

 Over the last 10 years AGE has undertaken several hundred groundwater related investigations for mining projects. The investigations have covered the:

• Base and precious metal provinces of Queensland and New South Wales;
• Bowen/Surat Basin and Hunter Valley coal regions;
• Major coastal sand and gravel deposits, and
• Mining areas in South America, Africa and Asia.

Click here for examples of projects undertaken for the mining industry.