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Quarry Design

Having a sound, well thought through quarry design is a fundamental part of the safe and cost effective operation of any site.

In many cases, the designs new clients bring to us are more in line with long-term indicative “sketches” produced for external stakeholders during the quarry approval or extension approval process and are not suitable for operational use.

We can take these designs and using world-class Deswik software, work with you to ensure that they are detailed, practical designs that are achievable with the equipment and resources available.

Along with the design process, we create a Design Guidelines document that is used to record all the relevant reports and the parameters used in the design.

Did you know?

Engineers working for Queensland based companies must be a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) to provide engineering services? The rule applies to all persons who in their employment provide engineering services to their employer. The exception is for persons who practise under the direct supervision of an RPEQ – find out more RPEQ here.

Generally most quarries will have a life of quarry plan and perhaps some staging plans. Generally both types of plans are a “best guess” unless they have been optimised. We have found that optimisation is great not only for overall pit shape, but to ensure that the stages are correct also (this makes a huge difference to the estimation of stripping and development).

QUARRY DESIGN

Services we offer

  • Short, medium & long term designs
  • Waste dump plans
  • Haulroad plans
  • Quarry extraction staging plans
  • Traffic Management Plans

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