Nathaniel Groeneveld
Senior Associate
Nathaniel Groeneveld is a Senior Associate at Enable Advisory with 7 years’ experience in underground metalliferous mining.
Nat is a mining engineer with experience across a range of operational and technical roles in underground metals. His time at Cannington mine in Queensland included mine planning, supervising haulage operations and operational engineering in paste, ventilation and drill & blast. Nat holds a First-Class Metalliferous Mine Managers Certificate of Competency as well as being a Metalliferous Ventilation Officer in Queensland.
Skills & Expertise
- Base Metals, Precious Metals
- Underground Operations – Sub-Level Open Stoping
- Mine Planning (short- and medium-term planning)
- Risk management and compliance to regulation and best practice
- Experience with mining software packages (Deswik, Ventsim, Surpac)
Career Highlights
- Paste bulkhead pressures project – in-field testing and analysis which analysed total and pore water pressures of paste to optimise bulkhead design.
- Middle ore pass filling assessment – designed and risk assessed plan to decommission major ore pass, including calculating airblast exclusion zones.
- Implementation of in-line pressure sensors to reduce binder usage through visual representation of paste column heights in CITECT.
Nat holds a BEng (Mining) (Hons) / BCom (Finance), University of Queensland, a First-Class Metalliferous Mine Managers Certificate of Competency – QLD and a Metalliferous Ventilation Officer – QLD.
