Hatch’s Coal and Mining and Minerals Processing groups offer capabilities in mining and geological support services. The teams, based in Australia and South Africa, specialize in the areas of geology, mining engineering and mine technical computing.

The range of expertise allows integration of all aspects of resource development including:

• Geological evaluation and resource modelling includes geological data acquisition, interpretation, statistical and geo-statistical analysis. Resource modelling, estimation and classification of coal and metalliferous deposits
• Mining engineering involving open cut and underground mine evaluation and planning, optimization, design, reserve estimation/classification (JORC), scheduling, equipment selection, rehabilitation planning, feasibility studies, project evaluation, auditing and troubleshooting of coal and metalliferous deposits
• Technical information services including data management, geographic information systems, technical computing applications and specialized computing tools running on several platforms
• Supporting mining operations such as mine management services, mine optimization, design, scheduling and reconciliation studies, drafting of presentation and working plans, technical data management grade control, drill and blast planning, computer system administration, computer operations, mine equipment selection and cost analysis.