Mining and Exploration

The growing number and impact of extreme weather events has led to increasing awareness in the extractive industries of the potential negative impacts of climate change. The mining and exploration industry has started thinking about their own vulnerabilities and the risks climate change could pose. Projections of hazards such as heavy precipitation, drought, and heat indicate these effects will get more frequent and intense, increasing the physical challenges to mining operations. Such changes have the potential to jeopardize buildings and built structures, slope stability, tailings and water retention structures, and site hydrology.

Our core services for the Mining and Exploration sector include:

• Weather monitoring and observation
• High-resolution gridded historical climate data sets
• Weather and climate estimation at ungauged sites
• Improvement of risk information Early Warning Systems
• Hydrometeorological forecasting and model development
• Statistical and dynamical downscaling of climate change scenarios data
• Tailored climate impact drivers data (e.g. climate hazard indices)
• High-resolution modelling of site-specific weather and climate extremes
• Climate impacts modelling, vulnerability, and risk assessments
• Hydrological and water management modelling