Ian R Brown Associates Ltd has carried out a variety of coal resource
and mining assessments, covering many of the larger New Zealand
coalfields as well as a brown coal deposit in Victoria, Australia.
Our expertise covers:
- planning and managing exploration programmes
- field mapping and sampling
- drilling supervision, cuttings logging, and geological interpretation
- geotechnical core logging
- open-pit design using 12d software
- slope stability analysis using TSLOPE3 and
other industry-standard software
- landowner, iwi and regulatory authority consultation
- underground mine pillar design
- evaluation of open-pit mining, underground mining and
coalbed methane (coal seam gas) potential
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In the North Island, Ian R Brown Associates Ltd has carried
out detailed assessments in the Maramarua, Huntly, Waikare, Rotowaro,
Whatawhata, Kawhia, Tihiroa, Te Kuiti, Mangapehi, amd Mokau
coalfields. In the South Island, detailed assessments have been
carried out in the Buller, Pike River, Greymouth, central Otago,
Kaitangata, and Ashers Waituna coalfields. In Australia, an assessment
was made of the Flynn deposit in the Latrobe valley, Victoria.
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