SERVICES

Seawave Mining provides a full range of Ventilation, Gas Drainage, Strata Control, Geotechnical services and general mining technical support from its Mackay based Queensland operation. Services provided consist of:

Operational Ventilation and Gas Drainage Services –

• Gas Drainage Management – Seawave Mining personnel are able to design both surface to inseam and inseam gas drainage by development of scopes and tender documents through to complete project management such as goaf drainage. We can provide gas monitoring and gas drainage management services for specific project work including day to day support for mine site based projects.
  
• Ventilation Management - Ventilation officer assistance or statutory provision as well as all facets of Ventilation. Including, Final seal management plans, Inertisation plans and implementation. Ventilation modelling, Ventilation design for mine closure or expansion. Ventilation surveys, gas monitoring interpretation.
  
• Operational Strata Control Services –
  
• Borescope Studies (Mine supplied only) – whilst not a common strata management tool at a mine site level, borescope studies are of great value in defining actual conditions in areas where monitoring data may not be available and visible conditions may be misleading. It is a valuable and low cost input into secondary support design where meaningful knowledge of existing conditions is an essential aspect in determining appropriate and cost-effective support measures.
  
• Audit/Review Studies – external consultants can be of value in the undertaking of audits and reviews of such issues as support rules, mine layouts and Strata Management Plans. A perspective unencumbered by formal links with an operation, yet still fully covered by Duty of Care considerations, whilst not essential, can add much to their efficiency and overall effectiveness.
  
• Strata Design and Feasibility Studies – our Mackay based staff are able to act as the local contacts and project manager for larger geotechnical design and feasibility type studies by utilising our own knowledge and experience base and provides for far better interaction with local mine sites.
  
• PUR Injection Design and Fault Consolidation – Seawave Mining has knowledge and experience, gained through practice in PUR injection and strata consolidation, in both proactive and reactive measures for Longwall and Development mining operations. Our staff can provide professional guidance, project management and design for all strata consolidation situations.
  
• Extensometer or Tell Tale Monitoring and Data Input
  Our Business manager and secretarial support can input data cost effectively and combined with our consultants interpretation experience can provide a outsourced external monitoring support and provide the client with daily updates and notification of any variations which require attention which can be missed onsite due to resource demands. The service also provides an advantage of data management and document control which is also a task which does not get priority due to resource demands onsite.

General Mining Technical Support – The Queensland operation has staff capable of providing varied mining technical support and project management. The experienced staff can provide services for short durations up to regular ongoing support. Examples of the type of services that can be provided include:

• Peak Demand Assistance – as with most operational roles, strata control ventilation and mine planning has peaks and troughs in terms of resource demand. For example, the driveage of longwall installation roadways is an increased strata control risk and often requires round the clock monitoring and management as does Final sealing Longwall panels for ventilation. Similarly, site based Technical Services personnel cannot be on-site 52 weeks a year. Our Mackay office is able to offer a short-term Technical Services contracting service to assist mine management provide adequate experienced Technical Services resources as and when required.
  
• Mine Design and Mine Planning – Seawave Mining can provide mine design and mine planning for specific projects, resource recovery, annual reports or life of mine scheduling. Planning and scheduling can be carried out using spreadsheet based software or MS Project, Suretrak,XPAC with mine plans and design work shown graphically using AutoCAD.
  
• Project Management – Queensland Office personnel have the skills and experience to complete project management services from contract development through to full contract support for mine site based projects. This includes liaison between the company and the contractor to ensure compliance, quality of work, cost control and safety requirements are achieved.
  
• Supervisory Assistance – Seawave Mining can offer supervisory assistance for most operational and technical roles where personnel are on leave or during peak periods of work. The Mackay Office has personnel with current statutory qualifications and operational experience to assist with statutory inspections and production leadership for all aspects of mining.
  
• Risk Management and Systems Development – Experienced staff are able to act as risk management facilitators to proactively risk assess mine site issues, new equipment or as a means of incident investigation. Systems and procedures can be developed to meet the mine’s objectives, statutory requirements or improve productivity. The secretarial support can provide onsite fast provision of risk assessment documentation and other documentation which can be neglected onsite due to lack resources.
  
• Audit/Review Studies – As an external consultant, Seawave Mining can undertake audits and reviews of such issues as statutory procedures, management systems, mine layouts and Hazard Management Plans even quality assurance development, implementation to accreditation. The Mackay Office staff can perform gap analysis and system verification as a simple tool to assist the mine to meet its compliance objects.
  
• Training and Assessment - Our staff can provide the missing link between operational and technical services with the ability to not only design and implement but provide training and assessment to competency based training or develop training package for site specific innovation that can be mapped to a competency standard. The ability to provide training in combination with a 3rd Class Certificate of Competency and Ventilation Officer competency allows a complete package to be developed.