About Us

The Science Behind Success

Mine Environment Management (MEM) is a leading geoscience and environmental engineering consultancy headquartered in Wales, UK.

As mining consultants we deliver practical and pragmatic answers for the mining industry worldwide across the full life of mine cycle, from planning through operations to closure and regeneration.

MEM was established with the core aim to utilise sound scientific principles to develop novel and innovative solutions for the management of the mining environment. We strongly believe science is behind the success of your project.

Our mining consultants have extensive practical and applied experience of the planning, design and management of tailings and waste rock storage facilities across a broad range of geographical and climatic site settings and commodity types. Our fields of expertise in applied geoscience is broad and reflects our comprehensive commercial and research project track record.

We have significant international experience having worked on projects in Scandinavia, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, Central and Southern America, Canada, Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines.

We have a strong research track record and our staff have authored over 20 published scientific papers relating to mine site geochemistry, laboratory testing, mine waste management and mine closure planning and have presented widely at international conferences in South America, Africa, Central Asia, China, Europe, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

We collaborate with other consultants on research projects. Our current collaborations are on carbon sequestration, fragmentation and modular water treatment projects.

What We Offer

Integrated mine planning, waste scheduling and waste management optimisation
Operational technical support for mine geology, planning and environment
Tailings and waste rock storage facility environmental management, planning and concept design
Mine site geochemistry, waste characterisation and predictive modelling
Carbon capture and sequestration
Innovative laboratory testing
Waste storage facility intrusive investigation (sonic drilling)
Water quality assessment, management and sustainable treatment technologies
Mine closure planning, site rehabilitation and repurposing
Technical training and development of site manuals/operational procedures

Site auditing of waste storage facilities and management practice

Our Vision & Values

We are actively engaged in, and invested in; innovative scientific research programs to develop management technologies and tools for the future. Our approach is to challenge the status quo and to constantly develop and keep exploring novel answers to problems and to develop practical and useful tools for the successful management of the mine environment.

Our commitments to clients are to: