SRK's 45th Anniversary

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary This Municipality in the Eastern Cape has a Water Service Authority responsible for the provision of water and sanitation services. SRK was appointed to assist with emergency drought intervention programmes in 2016 and 2019. This included the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Marula Platinum Mine is in the process of constructing a new tailings dam abutting their existing tailings dam. SRK completed the detail design of the new tailings dam and assisted with the Water Use Licence Application (WULA)...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary South Africa has a comprehensive governance framework informing environmental management compliance in the mining sector. Legislation requires mines to acquire relevant environmental authorisations for projects. Over the past two decades, SRK environmental practitioners have provided independent technical...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary The Kamoa-Kakula Copper project has been independently ranked as the world’s largest, undeveloped, high-grade copper discovery and comprises a near-surface, relatively flat-lying copper deposit located within the Central African Copperbelt. SRK has assisted Kamoa since 2016 with...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Bisha is a polymetal operating mine in Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa. SRK’s team participated in multiple projects and provided operational assistance to this mine from 2014 to 2019. The work included annual reserve updates, strategic...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2016, SRK was appointed to act as the Environmental, Health and Safety Manager for a 9 megawatt hydropower plant. The plant is located on the Nkusi River on the border of Hoima and Kibaale Districts, Western...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Sasol appointed SRK as the independent Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) to facilitate the environmental authorisation processes associated with the construction and operation of the Sasol Secunda Fine Ash Dam (FAD) 6 project. The FAD 6 project plays...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary An engineering geological study of the entire seafront of the Maputo harbour, in Mozambique was conducted between 2013 and 2014. The investigation consisted of 132 rotary core boreholes to average depths of about 25 m; 8 piezo...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In Uganda, economic growth has had a negative impact on the environment, to the extent that environmental degradation has resulted in a decline in economic growth. The cause of this degradation is inadequate environmental governance. While Uganda...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK prepared Mineral Resource estimates and models for 11 bauxite deposits in Alliance Mining Commodities’ Koumbia Mining Concession area in Guinea to support a definitive feasibility study. The study focused on the extraction of export quality bauxite...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has been working with mining companies to assess the potential to upgrade or pre-concentrate feed ahead of the process plant. This can be done through a combination of screening, bulk sorting and particle sorting. At the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has been involved in the project since 2016, assisting in geology development and bulk sampling. The Meya project is a field of significantly diamondiferous, steeply dipping kimberlite dykes and is geologically associated with the Koidu Mine...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK was contracted by the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) to carry out exploration and evaluation of seven selected targets across Rwanda for multiple commodities. SRK led the exploration in Rwanda, shadowed and supported by...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2019, SRK was retained by a limestone mining company in India to review the mine geotechnics, assess opportunities for slope steepening and to develop a slope management programme. The deposit occurs in a structurally complex terrain...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2015, SRK was commissioned by Goldstone Investment Co. Ltd. to review a copper project in Shangri-la, Yunnan province, China as a potential investment. The Hongniu (Red Bull) copper project was under construction at the time. Once...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2017, SRK was appointed by the Public Authority for Mining as lead consultant of a consortium with Wood Mackenzie Limited and Mayer Brown LLP to deliver a multi-disciplinary review of the Oman mining sector and develop...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has provided consulting assistance to Hindustan Zinc Limited for their multiple operating mines and projects located in India since 2005. The commissions initially commenced from a London Stock Exchange Listing Competent Person’s Report and since then...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK assisted with the development of pre-feasibility level closure plans for Sepon, a large open-pit copper mine in central southern Laos. The mine site included more than 40 pits, some backfilled, and 13 waste rock dumps. SRK...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK completed a Qualified Person’s Report and Independent Valuation of the Bukit Besi iron project in Malaysia. The work was done in support of Fortress Mining’s successful listing on the Catalist, the secondary board of the Singapore...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK undertook a multi-disciplinary design of an integrated hydroelectric power, mine waste rock and tailings storage facility. The design features a 190.5 m high asphalt core rockfill dam, two diversion dams, a 35.5 m high cofferdam, two...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK completed the underground mining engineering components of a Feasibility Study for Heron Resources’ Woodlawn Project. Woodlawn is a volcanogenic massive-sulphide (VMS) copper-zinc deposit comprising two significant resource-based assets, the Woodlawn Underground Project (WUP) and the Woodlawn...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK provided Capricorn Copper with independent reviews of the development and reporting of resource estimates under guidelines for best practice and the JORC Code for orebodies at its Capricorn Copper Mine in North Queensland. The mine is...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK prepared an Independent Specialist’s Report, consisting of a technical assessment and valuation of Crater Gold Mining’s base metal, graphite and gold exploration assets comprising the Croydon Project in Queensland, Australia. The report was prepared under the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has worked with Sirius Minerals on its polyhalite project in North Yorkshire, UK since 2010. Sirius is currently constructing a deep shaft mine, to around 1500 m below ground level to produce some 10 million tonnes...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK undertook a maiden JORC compliant MRE and PFS for the Almalyk mining and metallurgical complex in Uzbekistan. This state owned mine is one of the largest copper porphyry deposits in the world, currently processing 35 Mtpa...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Since 2011 SRK has been involved with the DNK mine which exploits a world class chromite deposit located in north-west Kazakhstan, operated by the European Resource Group. In 2014, SRK undertook a technical study on implementing the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary The Blagodatnoye gold mine is a large operation in central Russia operated by Polyus Gold. The deposit is characterised by strong bedding and structural features. Slope stability is further complicated by the presence of a stream and...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Gyproc in Ireland, part of the French company Saint-Gobain, extract gypsum from shallow underground room and pillar mines and an open cut located in County Monaghan, Ireland. SRK have been involved in providing underground geotechnical services at...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has, in 2019, once more undertaken Coal Resource and Reserve audits on behalf of SUEK in Russia. This included mobilising teams of experienced coal specialists for visits to SUEK’s 40 open pits, underground mines and processing...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary On November 13, 2018, Kazatomprom made its stock market debut in London and Astana with an implied valuation of US$3bn on initial trading. In support of the listing process, SRK authored a Competent Persons’ Report on the...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary This open pit copper mine near Princeton, British Columbia, resumed production in 2011 after the mine’s 1996 suspension. A permit condition of resumption was the segregation and separate management of waste rock with potential for acid rock...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK remains heavily involved in the South 32 Hermosa project in southern Arizona. This work focused on developing a robust geological model, scalable to support regional exploration as well as detailed feasibility study work for resource estimation...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK developed a production simulation of the mine design for the extraction level of the Kemess Underground block cave mine. The model scope included production LHDs, secondary breaking equipment, rockbreakers and crushers. The simulation was used to...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In the past three decades, modern mechanised cave mining has proven to be a successful mining method for the exploitation of large low-grade deposits that could not otherwise be economically extracted. In this decade, cave mining projects...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary The Faro mine was once one of the world’s largest lead and zinc mines. The mine closed in 1998, when the operator became insolvent, leaving behind a legacy of 320 million tonnes of acid-generating waste rock and...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Beginning in 2015, SRK has been providing environmental consulting and permitting expertise to Twin Metals, a subsidiary of Antofagasta plc, for the development of an underground copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold and silver mine in northern Minnesota...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has provided geology development, evaluation and resource estimation for the Kennady North project, owned by Kennady Diamonds, a subsidiary of Mountain Province Diamonds. It is located north of the Gahcho Kue diamond mine that is operated...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK hydrogeologists completed field studies in cooperation with the SRK rock mechanics and tailings teams to support design of an expanded mine design for the Galore Creek project, British Columbia. The project area, a remote location in...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK assisted in providing information for decisions on the best slope steepening alternative for closure of the pit. The methodology included three main tasks: Evaluation of the probability of failure (PF) representative of the stability conditions of...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has been involved in various studies relating to river dynamics for a confidential client to inform decisions on the reclamation of watercourses impacted by mining activities. One study involves the evaluation of riverbed sediment grain size...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Since 2014, SRK has worked on the closure of the Pascua-Lama gold project on the border of Chile and Argentina, owned by Barrick Gold. The pre-feasibility level closure plan was developed for the mine pit, rock dumps,...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK assisted the client in the construction of a tunnel and risers on the Matanza-Riachuelo project. The project consists of a tunnel that is 4.9 m in diameter and 12 km in length that will flush treated...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2013, SRK designed the excavation sequence for the placement of rockfill protection under the dock at La Plata, Argentina. Numerical models and analytical verifications of the background stability and the stability of the sheet piling of...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary During 2015-18, SRK worked on the Rincon project in Salta, undertaking a geotechnical investigation for the process plant and spent brine disposal ponds, and developed the feasibility and detailed engineering studies for the spent brine disposal facility...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Chinchillas is a high-altitude silver, lead, and zinc deposit in northern Argentina. SRK worked on this project from 2015 to 2019 encompassing different levels of studies including preliminary economic assessments, pre-feasibility and feasibility. SRK provided mine operating...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary In 2017, the Government of Bolivia appointed SRK to prepare a resource estimate of the Salar de Uyuni brine deposit. Uyuni is known as the largest lithium resource in the world, though no official estimate has been...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary SRK has created a hydrological and hydraulic model that simulates extreme hydrological events that could cause a significant impact due to rising water levels within the river channel. This was used to provide more accurate information regarding...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Hochschild Mining operates the Inmaculada Mining Mine Unit, a gold and silver operation in the province of Páucar del Sara Sara, Peru. SRK’s work consisted of establishing exploratory drilling plans to increase the level of confidence in...

Download A4 | Letter SRK News | Issue 60 : SRK's 45th Anniversary Atacocha Mining Company proposed the expansion of the Glory Hole open pit in Pasco, Peru and the development of new components. These involved the development of three pits, Glory Hole, GH West Satellite, and GH East Satellite;...