Consulting: Mining

Staff

Itasca consulting engineers with significant experience in mining engineering are listed below. Links on individuals' names will lead to the main Itasca staff page, where short biographical descriptions, curriculum vitae, and publications lists are also available. Links on the office names will lead to the page on this site that describes the office.

Itasca Denver, Inc.

Denver, Colorado

Lee C. Atkinson, Ph.D.
Principal Hydrogeologist.
Hydrogeology, mine dewatering design and implementation.

Steven G. Axen
Senior Hydrogeologist.
In-situ leaching, design, implementation of hydrogeologic field programs.

Mark Board, Ph.D.
Principal Engineer.
Mining engineering, rock mechanics.

Sandra J. Hodge
Associate.
Ground-water hydrology, conceptual hydrogeologic modeling.

Houmao Liu, Ph.D.
Senior Engineer/Technical Manager.
Ground-water and contaminant hydrology, software development.

Alexander Shchipansky, Ph.D.
Senior Hydrogeologist.
Ground-water flow, mining and contaminant hydrogeology, dewatering, deep aquifer hydrogeology.

Daniel B. Stone, Ph.D.
Principal Hydrogeologist.
Mining hydrology, hydrologic impacts assessment, ground-water flow and transport modeling, glaciology.

Jeffrey C. Wright
Senior Project Hydrogeologist.
Water resource development, mine dewatering, ground-water remediation.

Itasca Africa (Pty) Ltd

Johannesburg, South Africa

Tony Leach, M.Sc.
Principal Rock Mechanics Consultant.
Rock mechanics, mining engineering.

Alan Cook, M.Sc.
Senior Engineer.
Methane engineering.

Itasca Australia Pty Ltd

Melbourne, Australia

David Sainsbury, Ph.D.
Senior Geotechnical Engineer.
Mining engineering and rock mechanics.

Bre-Anne Sainsbury, M.E.
Senior Geotechnical Engineer.
Geotechnical engineering.

David Wines, M.E.
Senior Geotechnical Engineer.
Geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics.

Itasca Consultants S.A.S.

Ecully, France

Daniel Billaux, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant.
Numerical modeling, hydrogeology, and geomechanics.

Céline Bourdeau, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Engineering geology.

Caroline Darcel, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Hydrogeological modeling.

Fabian Dedecker, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Mechanics of granular materials, numerical modeling.

Itasca Consultants GmbH

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Heinz Konietzky, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant.
Rock and soil mechanics, field testing.

Lothar te Kamp, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Rock and fracture mechanics, laboratory and field testing.

Itasca Consulting Canada Inc.

Sudbury, Canada

Patrick Andrieux, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Mining engineering, geomechanics.

Richard K. Brummer, D.Eng.
Principal Geomechanics Consultant.
Mine geomechanics, deep mining mechanics.

Luigi Cotesta
Project Engineer.
Geotechnical, mining engineering.

Marty Hudyma
Project Engineer.
Seismicity and rockbursting in mines, mine design, stope design, ground support.

Hao Li
Project Engineer.
Geomechanics, software development.

Christopher P. O'Connor
Project Engineer.
Mining engineering, mineral resource engineering.

Alexandr Turichshev
Project Engineer.
Rock engineering.

Huanchun (Peter) Zhu
Project Engineer.
Geomechanics, engineering geology.

Itasca Consulting Group, Inc.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Terje Brandshaug
Senior Rock Mechanics Consultant.
Rock mechanics, numerical modeling.

Mark C. Christianson, M.S.
Senior Engineer.
Applied rock mechanics, computer graphics & numerical modeling.

Andrew Corkum, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics.

Peter A. Cundall, Ph.D.
Principal Geomechanics & Software Engineer.
Geomechanics, numerical modeling.

Branko Damjanac, Ph.D.
Project Engineer.
Civil engineering, rock mechanics, and groundwater flow.

David O. DeGagné, M.Sc.
Project Engineer.
Mining Engineering, rock mechanics

Charles Fairhurst, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant.
Rock Mechanics, civil engineering.

Matthew E. Pierce, M.Sc., P.Eng.
Project Engineer.
Mining engineering and rock mechanics.

Itasca Consultores S.L.

Asturias, Spain

Pedro Varona, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant.
Rock mechanics, mining engineering.

Pedro Velasco, M.Sc.
Project Engineer.
Geotechnical engineering and numerical modeling.

Itasca Geomekanik AB

Stockholm, Sweden

Eva Hakami, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant.
Mine hydrology and mine geomechanics.

Hossein Hakami, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant.
Soil and rock mechanics, experimental studies, in-situ measurements.

Itasca S.A.

Santiago, Chile

Loren Lorig, Ph.D., P.E.
Principal Rock Mechanics Consultant.
Rock mechanics, numerical modeling.

Patricio Gómez
Project Engineer.
Applied geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics, and numerical modeling.

Rodrigo Silva, B.Sc.
Project Engineer.
Mining engineering, applied geotechnical engineering.

Itasca Associates

These individuals act as occasional employees and advisors to Itasca.

Emmanuel Detournay, Ph.D.
Geomechanics Consultant.
Geomechanics and mining engineering.

José V. Lemos, Ph.D.
Senior Numerical Modeling Advisor.
Geomechanics and numerical modeling.

Fritz Rummel, Ph.D.
Senior Mining Advisor.
Geophysics, rock physics, and applied rock mechanics.

R. Paul Young, Ph.D.
Senior Mining Advisor.
Applied seismology and rock mechanics.

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