Mining

Sustainable solutions for the complete mine lifecycle.

Modern mining requires solutions that balance operational performance, environmental stewardship, and long-term sustainability. KCB collaborates with clients across every stage of the mining lifecycle, from scoping and feasibility through operations, closure, and post-closure, delivering integrated engineering and environmental solutions that support safe, responsible, and sustainable mining.

Our multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and closure practitioners designs and delivers critical infrastructure, including dams, water management systems, and tailings storage facilities, with long-term closure objectives in mind. By working closely with clients, we develop practical, sustainable solutions for mine waste management, inspections, safety reviews, and risk management aligned with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM), helping clients create lasting value while supporting the responsible stewardship of natural resources.

Our Global Sector Presence

Serving clients with trusted mine waste, tailings, and environmental solutions on some of the world's most challenging mining projects.

North America

Our Canadian mining operations began in British Columbia seventy-five years ago, and for over three decades, we have been serving clients through offices in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Calgary, Ontario and New Brunswick. We have a long history in providing engineering, geoscience and environmental services to the region’s mining sector such as at the Highland Valley Copper Mine in Logan Lake, British Columbia, and the Jackpine Mine in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Through our Engineer-of-Record services, we play a key role in tailings and water dams stewardship throughout the mining life cycle.

Our operations in the U.S. range from large-scale proposed tailings facilities to helping our clients meet GISTM standards at their legacy tailings facilities.

South America

KCB continues to expand into the South American mining sector. Our offices in Lima, Peru and Belo Horizonte, Brazil support a growing portfolio of projects across the region from Argentina to Ecuador. We have worked on some of the most challenging resource sector projects in the region, specializing in geoscience, environmental science and engineering, including soil and rock mechanics, water management and hydraulics. We are recognised for mine waste, mine water management, and environmental and socioeconomic services to mining and other clients in Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Europe

Our offices in the UK and Ireland support mining opportunities in Europe, Africa and Asia. The UK team is the engineer of record for a tailings storage facility in Sweden that is currently being upgraded to meet internationally accepted design standards.

Australasia

Our Australasian operation services a wide variety of mining clients within Australia and across the Pacific Rim. We are based in two offices, Brisbane and Perth, as well as a regional presence in New South Wales (Newcastle), Victoria (Melbourne), South Australia (Adelaide) and Tasmania (Hobart). We have worked on some of the largest and most challenging resource sector projects in the region, while exporting professional consulting services to a variety of international mining and exploration projects. We are recogniszed for mine waste and mine water management services in remote and equatorial environments, including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos, Fiji and Mongolia.

A key operational project includes the Hidden Valley mine in PNG which is owned by Harmony Gold. KCB has been supporting Harmony with the design and construction supervision of the first large on-land tailings dam in PNG that has become the benchmark for responsible tailings management in PNG. We have also led sitewide integrated closure planning involving interdisciplinary teams to support risk-informed closure designs.