Field and modeling services for effective dewatering strategies
Mining operations can face dewatering challenges during design, operation, and closure. M&A provides field testing, data analysis, and groundwater modeling services to characterize and project conditions in complex, fractured-rock hydrogeologic environments. Our local-scale models are calibrated to observed data and tested for sensitivity to various input parameters so we can predict pit-dewatering requirements. These local-scale models are often coupled with regional models to simulate the long-term effects of existing or proposed mining operations.
Capabilities
- Designing / implementing drilling and testing programs to characterize fractured-rock systems
- Analyzing hydraulic data to estimate aquifer parameters
- Designing / implementing monitoring programs to characterize aquifer conditions and ensure regulatory compliance
- Projecting pit dewatering requirements and filling rates using groundwater flow models
- Projecting local and regional water levels under mining and post-closure conditions
- Developing pit-lake water balances
- Projecting pore pressures so geotechnical engineers can assess rock stability
