Amanda Desjardins
P.Eng, MBA
Amanda brings over 15 years experience in the mining industry with more than 5 years in resource consulting.
She has experience in multiple mining methods and commodities, ranging from underground hard rock to open pit energy. Within the mining industry, Amanda has had the opportunity to work in a range of roles, including short and long-term planning, reclamation, equipment manufacturing, and continuous improvement. She obtained her MBA in 2023 and applies this business focus to her projects.
Expertise
- Mine Scheduling
- Mine Design and Planning
- Mine Engineering
- Mine Optimisation
- Financial Optimisation
Track Record
- Amanda completed preliminary design work for a major expansion within an underground base metals mine in Northern Mantioba. This included ensuring that all underground infrastructure, including dewatering, electrical and ventilation was aligned with current and in-use infrastructure.
- At a North American based underground uranium producer, Amanda implemented a short interval control and work management software as a way to increase development footage. This included software configuration, process mapping, and training of key users, which helped the site to achieve its required development footage, identified as a bottleneck within its process.
- Worked on and project managed the creation of life of mine plans for multiple assets within the oil sands industry in Northern Alberta. This work began from the design phase and through to investigating multiple scenarios. Consideration of waste placement, dyke building, and tailings capacity had to be balanced with production and blending requirements.
- Amanda aided in the implementation of 5S and production loss tracking as part of a continuous improvement initiative as a North American based underground uranium producer.
- Provided design work and NPV optimisation guidance for a greenfields project at a Canadian gold mining company. This project included an underground and open pit portion with multiple pits and zones within the underground workings. Part of the optimisation included consideration of blending open pit and underground mill feed whilst also ensuring that geotechnical constraints were adhered to.