Training

Key areas covered:

• Types of waste dumps
• Shear strength theory of loose rock – Barton Kajernsli, Mohr Coloumb
• Laboratory testing
• Deriving shear strength parameters
• Loading conditions
• 2D and 3D analysis
• Design charts

Key areas covered

• Why do we need to carry out laboratory testing?
• Field work, sample management and point load testing
• Developing a lab testing program for Pilbara settings
• Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Indicator tests
• Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Classification and unsaturated behaviour
• Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Shear Strength Tests
• Geotechnical laboratory testing for rocks – UCS and Hoek Triaxial
• Geotechnical laboratory testing for rocks – Direct Shear Tests
• Geological/structural model and data validation
• Developing rock mass models
• Assessing the fundamental geotechnical parameters
• Estimating reduced parameter values for sensitivity analyses.
• Developing the geotechnical design parameters
• Statistical evaluation of data

Key topics covered:

• Need for Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.
• Natural condition of Unsaturated Soils
• Phase properties of soils
• Stress state variables for unsaturated soils
• SWCC Introduction and definition
• Dimensionless & Normalized Water Content
• Wetting curves and drying curves
• Equations
• SWCC parameters
• Lab testing
• Permeability function
• Overview of theory of shear strength of
  saturated soils
• Extended Mohr-Coulomb Failure Envelope for Unsaturated Soil
• Comparison and discussions
• UDST lab tests
• Developing the extended MC envelope from lab testing
• Case Studies
• Monitoring

Key topics covered:

• Phase properties of soils
• Grading curves
• Atterberg Limits
• Soil classification
• Saturated permeability
• Saturated shear strength
• Consolidation
• Laboratory testing

Key topics covered:

• History
• Development of the ALM
• Numerical Modelling
• The incorporation of anisotropic shear strength into the method of slices
• AM1, ALM2, ALM3
• Using the ALM model

Key topics covered:

• What information is to be used
• Understanding the geological setting
• Hydrology and hydrogeology
• Geotechnical laboratory testing
• Geological/Structural model and data validation
• Developing rock mass models
• Assessing the fundamental geotechnical parameters
• Developing the geotechnical design parameters
• Geotechnical model and domains
• Assessing potential failure modes
• Stability analysis procedures
• Evaluating stability analysis results and domaining
• Recommendations and actions

Key topics covered:

• Introduction
• The Importance of Geotec – Safety Continuity of Production
• The Importance of Geotec -Financials & Continuity of Production
• Geotec Design vs Geotec Operations Management
• The Geotechnical Design Process
• Failure Mechanisms
• Slope Design Considerations (Introduction)
• Basic Mechanics
• Data Collection
• Laboratory Testing and Interpretation
• Rock Mass Strength and Deformation
• Geotechnical Data Analysis
• Rock Defect Strength and Deformation
• Case Study – Parameter Strength Estimation
• Groundwater
• Rotational Failure
• Planar Failure
• Wedge Failures
• Complex Modes of Failure
• Aniosotropic Linear Model and Ongoing Research
• Case studies – Slope stability analyses
• Slope Design Considerations Incl Batter-Berm Design
• Sensitivity Studies
• Mining through Voids
• Slope Formation
• Limits Blasting
• Slope Monitoring
• Interpretation of Deformation Behaviour

Key topics covered:

• Introduction
• SV Designer creating 2D models
• SV Designer Creating 3D models
• SVSlope – 2D LEM slope stability analysis
• SVSlope – 3D LEM slope stability analysis
• SVFlux – groundwater and consolidation modelling
• SV Solid – Deformation finite element modelling
• SV Soils
• Case studies

Key topics covered:

• Theory of InSAR
• Sensors/ Satellites
• Beam modes
• Data processing
• Examples

Key topics covered:

• Introduction and overview for closure
• Regulatory issues
• Types of waste landforms
• The landform development process
• Design and types of covers for PAF and NAF waste dumps
• Basic design principals
• Advanced design principals (store and release covers)
• Water balance modelling
• Numerical modelling
• Construction and blending of materials
• Closure bunds
• Management after reliquishment
• Case studies

Key topics covered:

• Case studies and learnings from the past
• Organisational risk management
• Risk managment methodology for managing large waste landform risk
• Managing the physical risks of open pit mining
• Managing the geochemical risks
• Managing the operational risks
• Closure risks
• Managing waste landform risks for closure and in abandonment
• Managing risks in perpetuity