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Gordon McPhail
Director
PhD, PrEng, MIEAust, CPEng
Gordon has acquired many specialisations over 38 years of consulting in dam, tailings dam, waste and environmental engineering. These specialisations include: Tailings geotechnics and depositional behaviour, Tailings dam siting, design, management and monitoring, Tailings dam remediation, Slope stability analysis, Seepage analysis, Hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, Hydrological Assessments, Hydraulic engineering, Quantified risk assessment, Risk-based environmental remediation and control, Long term erosion modelling and landform engineering, and Sustainability-based decision-making.
Gordon has qualified as an Arbitrator, a Mediator, an Expert Determiner, and an Adjudicator.
Roxana Ugaz
Principal Engineer
MSc, BSc(EngCivil), MIEAust
Roxana has acquired several specialisations over 9 years of consulting in dam, tailings dam, waste and environmental engineering. These specialisations include but are not limited to: Tailings geotechnics, Tailings dam siting and design, Tailings dam remediation, Slope stability analysis, Seepage analysis, Seismic hazard and Seismic risk assessment, Geotechnical Modelling with Fine Element software, Geophysics analysis and interpretation, Financial and economic assessments for mining projects, Studies on the influence of investment and financing decisions on mining projects at the pre-feasibility stage, Construction of realistic Discounted Cash flow (DCF) models for a mining project, and Assessment of the project and financial risks on investment decisions under uncertainty.
Francisco Garcia
Senior Engineer
MSc(MinEnEcon), BSc(EngCivil)
Francisco has more than twelve years’ postgraduate experience working in mining consulting, in operational underground mines and road construction. He has wide experience in geotechnical and hydraulic design; prefeasibility, preliminary feasibility, feasibility and final feasibility studies; mine planning operations, and scheduling and strategic planning.
In addition, Francisco has experience as a Project Engineer in the mining and transport sectors, with experience in project planning, design, preparation of tender and construction documentation, tender evaluations, construction and construction supervision for roads, TSF’s (conventional tailings and high density) and mine closure.