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Mine Safety & Training
IMC has the capability to design, prepare and implement training programmes throughout the world, and also arrange and co-ordinate Client’s visits to the UK or elsewhere as part of an integrated training package. In response to the training demands of the world market place, the scope of the consultant's training services has been developed to meet the needs of developing countries, intermediate technology countries, and highly developed nations such as UK, USA, Australia and South Africa.
IMC commonly conduct dedicated health and safety audits and risk assessments for both mining companies and government organisations. Aside from the dedicated projects, IMC regularly comment in detail on health and safety aspects in Competent Persons Reports, Due Diligence and Mineral Expert Reports.
Germany: 2000 – Ongoing
Developing a comprehensive model to forecast methane recovery in coal mines. The project includes estimates of remaining cavities in closed mines and the distribution of cavities in the mining concession area, estimate of remaining methane gas in the rock formation, investigations of desorption at the surface in colliery areas and at the surface in areas of water wells, metrological monitoring of gas desorption pipes and behaviour of methane desorption at partly re-filled shafts. Results are used for numerical modelling of methane migration and forecast of methane desorption, development of a three dimensional CAD model and planning of utilisation of methane gas for power generation.
 - Cross-section of Abandoned Mine
Germany: 2003 – Ongoing
Contracted by the city of Herne for project management of four projects to produce CMM from abandoned mines through wells drilled into old mine workings. The scope includes an investigation of technical and geological conditions, study on feasibility of the project and project description, application for funding, set-up of general drilling concept, call for tenders, contracting negotiations, permitting procedures including fire and explosion protection, supervision of drilling and production tests, interpretation of results and reporting to State authorities.
 - Lorraine Deposit CBM Exploration
France: 2006
Carrying out logging and interpretation of two CBM wells drilled by European Gas Ltd. in the Lorraine deposit. Scanning of cores and structural interpretation. The services included the determination of the gas content of coal and rock samples, analyses, determination of porosity and permeability.
France: 2005 – 2006
Commissioned with studies to assess the overall CMM and/or CBM potential of license areas held by European Gas Ltd. covering several coalfields in central and southern France, including a preliminary estimation of the production volumes and periods. Studies were performed for the areas of Nord-Pas de Calais, Gardanne, and the St. Étienne/ Loire Basin.
 - Mine Fire at Strongman Mine
New Zealand: 2005
Examined two abandoned underground mines where mine fires had occurred during operation, ignited by spontaneous combustion, affecting current mining activities of nearby open pit mines. After inspection the team made recommendations to the owner, Solid Energy Ltd., to optimise the fire fighting activities.
China: 2005
Commissioned by the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia with the development of a Safety Management Catalogue for the Chinese coal mining industry. This development should lead to the rapid and impartial identification and evaluation of the mining and operational risk factors in addition to conceptualising basic approaches in preventive risk management.
 - Inspection of Coal Fires in China
China: 2001 – 2004
Carried out a project for GTZ, developing methods to detect, monitor and extinguish coal fires in the Xinjiang Region, PR China. After exploration and surveying, different tailor made technologies were used to extinguish the fires: Levelling the area by dozers, grid drilling of bore holes, water injection to reduce temperature in the burning zone below 100°C (no more danger of spontaneous combustion), sealing with soil to block oxygen and remediation of the area to avoid erosion.
 - Methane Gas Extraction at Soko Mine
Serbia: 2004
Carried out studies to improve mine safety and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the Soko underground lignite mine, where very high amounts of methane gas occur in the roof of the coal seam. The scope of the study was to estimate the gas content and its distribution in the deposit, to assess mining and ventilation methods in view of safety and CH4-contamination compared to European standards, to propose methods of gas extraction and forecast future amounts of extractive gas. Technical aspects of environmental protection had to be considered.
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