Peabody is a leading coal producer, providing essential products to fuel baseload electricity for emerging and developed countries and creating the steel needed to build foundational infrastructure. Their Coppabella and Moorvale complex in Coppabella, 140km southwest of Mackay in Queensland, Australia, combines two open pits and mines PCI coal using dragline and truck & shovel.
Like many organisations and industries, the Peabody site at Nebo was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. This along with several other factors lead to Peabody finding themselves short on essential team members and specific skillsets.
They were missing an important team player who had the technical capacity and engineering skills to provide guidance, mentorship and to maintain good communication with the operations team.
Datamine’s team has expertise in a wide range of commodities including coal, gold, platinum, iron ore, uranium, diamonds, nickel, zinc and lead as well as the full range of open pit and underground mining methods.
Our network of regional offices is staffed with experienced engineers and geologists that have worked around the world on different mining projects. Their experience and broad perspective allow them to provide insight on the best application of software tools and processes in a variety of mining methods and commodities. Our consultants deliver a range of benefits and outcomes all tailored to client’s operations and business needs.
Our team of mining engineers assists clients with a range of services to complement in-house capabilities, drawing from years of diverse experience. This includes short- and long-term assignments, as well as periodic requirements such as annual life of mine plan updates.
Our team of geologists are experienced in all aspects of geology from exploration field work to detailed resource estimates. Utilising Datamine’s industry standard software for 3D resource/reserve modelling allows our team to rapidly complete work that is of a high standard.
Datamine was contracted by Peabody for a period totalling more than six months in the last two years. They requested Datamine to provide an on-site consultant to fill essential positions as well as assist the planning team complete project work. Datamine provided Peabody with various consultants over the contract period including a drill and blast engineer, mid-term dragline planning engineer and a truck and shovel engineer. Datamine’s consultants were employed onsite on a weekly roster and later remotely, providing mid-term support on a fixed term contract.
Our technical support allowed the Peabody team to focus their efforts on their mining sequence whilst maintaining quality design and scheduling. Our experienced team members also offered mentorship and guidance to young engineers within the team and identify gaps with the current process to improve the overall technical capacity of the team. Peabody was able to use the Datamine team members to backfill positions ensuring planning and operations remained steady.
The Datamine consultant became the natural choice for the Onsite position, thanks to his previous knowledge of the Coppabella mine, long-standing working relationship and his extensive mining expertise. Blake Harris, Strategic Planning Superintendent at Peabody said: “The consultant was a real asset to the team and I highly recommend him.”, whilst Technical Services Superintendent Gerry Morales praised the consultant for his ‘quality of work, positive attitude and good professional reputation’.
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