Track Record

• At Clermont Open Cut Mine, Daniel developed a process map for their haulage model, allowing him to generate a report to focus on optimising areas that required improvement. As a result the process was streamlined and costs were reduced over a 3 year period by the reduction of two trucks from the fleet total.
• Joining Hail Creek at the commencement of the first new expansion pits, he was instrumental in developing Stage Plans for the box cut and first strip advance. This process identified a number of improvements to the pit design. As a result, the pit was kicked off successfully with a significant reduction of issues faced compared with previous box cut.
• At Hail Creek Daniel built a financial model to run through the different ROM and Product profiles for both bulk and selective mining options under a number of different loss scenarios. The financial model indicated that even under conservative loss estimates, bulk mining delivered a better outcome with lower operational complexity. Daniel was able to roll this out to site at a benefit of ~$2/ROMt to the operation.
• He developed additions to the Life of Mine production model at Hail Creek to include gas content in the coal data, and added new processes, dependencies, and schedule output fields to enable reporting functionality for both direct emissions from mined blocks, as well as indirect emissions from gas bearing strata in the immediate pit floor. This was of particular importance for Hail Creek, as the pit floors contain carbonaceous material in most areas. As a result of this process, the site was able to provide information both on a restated historical basis, as well as forecasting, which was critical for understanding the site’s potential risk exposure under the new safeguard mechanism.