His experience covers both practical engineering geology including field assessments and data collection, rock strata monitoring, managing of data for input design, in situ stress measurement as well as interpretation of data for input to numerical and theoretical design.
He has extensive experience in rock mass characterisation and the use of such methods in the determination of rock mass strength for stability assessment. Ian currently designs room and pillar panels for pillar extraction in coal mines in India, where he also trains personnel in this method.
– Shortwall, coal and geotechnical logging.
– Quarries, design by measurement.
Ian’s international expertise is based upon his initial career experience in the United Kingdom’s coal mining industry. His experience has grown globally, working in regions including Europe, Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Ian has worked in varying rock types ranging from soft ductile ground to hard brittle lithologies. Ian’s wealth of experience of using instrumentation and monitoring within underground spaces, particularly using rock mass in-situ stress measurements to develop ground characterisation and stability models, enables him to assess instrumentation and monitoring projects from a highly practical as well as technical viewpoint.
Additionally, his innate knowledge of using rockbolt support systems for excavations in both hard and soft rock geospheres gives him a deep and judicious understanding of support requirements for varying conditions and excavation size and depth.
Such as Mining, consultancy, and support. Then Rock stress measurement. Otherwise Instrumentation, CSIRO Cell or training SRK. Professional mining consultancy with global expertise in the whole mine life cycle like mining.
Ian has over 36 years operational and consulting experience in mining and civil rock mechanics working in mines, tunnels, shafts and caverns. Ian has held various positions over the course of his career: geologist, project engineer, and geotechnical engineer within operational and consultancy companies.
Since 2003, Ian has held the position of Lead Rock Mechanic at Golder Associates UK Ltd. Ian previously worked at Rock Mechanics Technology Ltd (RMT). RMT and their staff were acquired by Golder with the primary aim to further develop key areas of rock mechanics and transfer this technology to companies and institutions worldwide. Ian moved on from Golder November 2020.
Ian has been working closely with national mining boards, and local/global companies to implement the design by measurement approach. This technique involves making the best use of a full understanding of ground responses to mining to inform future designs. To achieve this, Ian has helped multiple mines to implement monitoring systems. First identifying areas at risk of adverse ground movement, then understanding and mitigating those risks, before altering the mining design and extraction methods to optimise a holistic approach to “working with the ground”.
Such as Rock Stress Measurement, high-stress environment, or underground. However, borehole and extensometer such as telltale, rockbolt, cable bolt, and resin. Firstly Hard rock, instrumentation, overcoring, and design like CSIRO, USBM, and ENGINEERING GEOLOGY. Otherwise Slope, legacy mining, mg, and feasibility. SRK. Mining consultancy services.