Mining
Matrix Solutions has a deep understanding of the complex environmental and business challenges that face the mining industry. Our goal is to help you manage your environmental risks and liabilities, including social and regulatory requirements to operate and ongoing protection of the natural environment. Our professional experience encompasses surface mining of coal, oil sands, minerals and metals and solution mining of potash and lithium.
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Our services support your mine’s full life cycle. We provide initial planning and environmental assessment services, water management design, and engineering and environmental support for preliminary economic assessment, pre-feasibility assessments and detailed feasibility assessments. Our suite of services also includes environmental compliance monitoring and audits, risk management plans, and mine abandonment remediation and reclamation.
Learn more about the services and solutions we provide to our Mining Sector clients
Contact our Mining Sector Lead, Geosciences
Eric Pelletier
epelletier@matrix-solutions.com
Related Projects
Mine Water and Selenium Management Plan
Matrix was engaged to design a water and selenium management program as part of a Feasibility Study and to complete baseline environmental monitoring and assessments to support the groundwater and surface water components of an EPEA application for the Tent Mountain open pit coal mine project.
Lithium Brine Deposit Resource and Reserve Estimate
Our client was in the resource delineation and quantification stage of planning a lithium brine project in South America. As part of this exploration, it was recognized that hydrogeological aquifer modelling could be incorporated to refine mineral resource estimates and optimize production plans.
Numerical Modelling for Mine Dewatering
Our client needed to plan future mine operations to minimize the risk that groundwater inflow would impair mining activities and resource recovery.