GWP CONSULTANTS LLP

Mining Geologists, Geotechnical Engineers, Mine & Quarry Designers and Afteruse, Water Management, Project Management, and Specialist Surveying

GWP Consultants (GWP), originally established in 1973, is a limited liability partnership providing independent specialist advice to the international minerals industry.

Clients include mine and quarry operators and contractors, exploration companies, local government organizations, funding agencies, and companies in the construction, finance, insurance, planning and waste management sectors.

GWP offers expertise in:

• Mining and geotechnical engineering
• Mineral deposit evaluation
• Design and evaluation of mines and quarries and related structures
• Groundwater and surface water management
• Specialist surveying techniques

A wholly owned subsidiary business, BlastLog Ltd offers blast monitoring and design expertise.

ACTIVITIES

Mineral deposit evaluation:

• Geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological field investigations, testing and interpretation;
• deposit modelling;
• resource and reserve estimation.

Geotechnical engineering:

• Appraisal of geotechnical settings;
• slope stability analysis and design of excavated or tipped slopes;
• rockfall assessment;
• diggability assessment;
• blast design and monitoring;
• design of restoration landforms;
• underground excavation and support design;
• subsidence analysis.

Surface water management and hydrology:

• Catchment hydrology, flood risk assessment, water quality and sediment erosion studies, drought analysis, design of storage, treatment and pumping systems.

Mine and quarry planning:

• Openpit and quarry design, including layout of ramps, haul roads and tips;
• computation and scheduling of mineral and waste volumes;
• preparation of phase plans;
• diggability assessments;
• blast design;
• equipment selection;
• dewatering arrangements.

Hydrogeology and groundwater:

• National and regional strategic planning, groundwater resources abstraction and protection, flood alleviation, water control and dewatering, contamination remediation and impact assessment.

Waste tips and lagoons:

• Design of waste tips, lagoons and tailings dams;
• design of landfill containment cells within mineral operations;
• waste scheduling to ensure progressive restoration and optimise site operations;
• specification of monitoring systems;
• surveying and setting out;
• construction supervision.

Engineering and land surveying:

• Fully 3 dimensional quarry and land surveys;
• specialist engineering and geotechnical surveys.

Mining economics:

• Feasibility studies;
• technical and financial audits;
• assessment of technical and commercial risks;
• advice on loss control measures and risk mitigation;
• mine restructuring;
• mineral property valuations;
• assistance with raising mining finance.

Contract and litigation support:

• Advice on contract drafting and mitigation of contractual risk;
• advice on strengths and weaknesses of contractual claims;
• technical investigations and preparation and presentation of experts' reports related to geotechnical and mining engineering.

Health and Safety:

• Training and advice in respect of geotechnical hazard appraisal;
• accident and incident investigations.

TYPICAL PROJECTS
CZECH REPUBLIC - Due diligence studies relating to acquisition of cement plant and associated limestone quarry.
GREAT BRITAIN - Geotechnical assessments and design remediation solutions in steep dip opencast coal operations. Design and phasing of active and proposed quarry operations. Assessment of contractors claims, opencast coal sites. Design and remediation of silt ponds and tips. Design of mineral recovery and material storage facilities, Terminal 5 Heathrow project. Design of rockfall protection measures in active and former quarries.
IRELAND - Design and phasing of active and proposed quarry operations.
Open pit planning for cement raw materials.
ITALY - Back analysis of failure of large tailings dam.
POLAND - Due diligence studies relating to acquisition of cement plant and associated limestone quarry. Market study and due diligence for sand and gravel deposits.
ROMANIA - Risk assessment relating to influence of quarrying operations on the stability of a landslip.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Evaluations, preparation of contracts and supervision of installation of new crusher for aggregate quarry.
INDIA - Pre-feasibility study and pit design for proposed cement raw material quarries. Assessment of behavior of iron ore in transit.
HONG KONG - Expert blasting advice relating to fatal accident.
INDONESIA - Design of highwall slopes for large surface mines. Expert determination of coal prices to be included in power supply contract.
TRINIDAD - Training courses in quarry design for quarrying industry and government. Strategic Environmental Impact assessment for the establishment of mining zones.
MONTSERRAT - Advice concerning operational matters and reserves for aggregate quarry.
VENEZUELA - Geotechnical, hydrogeological and hydrological aspects of feasibility study for opencast coal project.
NIGERIA - Hydrogeological site investigations and modelling at major cement raw materials quarries.


EXPERIENCE IN
EUROPE & CIS:
Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA:
United Arab Emirates

AFRICA:
Angolo, Botswana, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe

SOUTH ASIA:
India, Maldives, Sri Lanka

EAST ASIA:
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia

PACIFIC:
Australia, Fiji

NORTH AMERICA:
Canada, Greenland, USA

CARIBBEAN:
Trinidad, Montserrat

SOUTH AMERICA:
Brazil, Venezuela

SECTORS AND DISCIPLINES
Architecture: Building and land surveying
Construction: Civil & specialist engineering
Construction: Contract advisory
Construction: Materials
Construction: Quarrying
Construction: Surveying
Engineering: Consulting
Engineering: Project
Environment: Impact assessment
Environment: Waste management
Financial: Legal advisors / solicitors
Industry: Engineering
Industry: Mining and minerals
Infrastructure: Engineers
Infrastructure: Surveyors
Maritime: Survey & geosciences
Privatisation: Due diligence
Privatisation: Efficiency assessment / audit
Water: Dams
Water: Hydrology
Water: Surface & groundwater resources
Water: Urban / rural supply
Water: Wastewater
Construction: Geotechnics
Financial: Expert witness

SECTORS AND DISCIPLINES

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