Resource Infrastructure

Kemerton Lithium Project

A Lithium hydroxide Product manufacturing plant and associated infrastructure, within the Kemerton Strategic Industrial Area (KSIA), approximately 17 kilometres north-east of Bunbury.

Our services included:

• Establish and maintain primary survey control network
• Audit checks on contractor’s secondary control networks
• Earthworks conformance, design, machine control setup and support
• Earthworks volume calculation
• UAV data & Aerial image capture
• Concrete and HD bolt conformances,
• Road conformances, existing road asbuilt
• Settlement and deformation monitoring, piling monitoring
• Structural and mechanical verticality and alignment checks
• Underground service asbuilts, service set outs
• Bill of quantities calculations, check on contractors monthly and final claims
• General survey support for clients miscellaneous requests

BHP Mining Area C & South Flank

The proposed South Flank project is located adjacent to BHP’s existing
Mining Area C operation in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This contract consisting of the enabling works of Mining Area C to facilitate the expansion.

Scope of work includes:

• Establish and maintain a survey control network
• Set-out of bulk and detailed earthworks including machine control management
• Set-out road works and drainage
• Set-out concrete and HD bolts
• Structural steel set-out and verticality surveys
• Set-out and alignment of conveyors to tie into existing crusher plant

Sunrise Dam Power Station

New gas inlet and distribution system and a new power station adjacent to the existing power station. The new power station (SRDPS7) will provide an addition 8.6MW of power to the mine site.

Xcel Surveying is contracted by ECM to provide site surveying services

Scope of work includes:

• Establish and maintain primary survey control network
• Set-out of bulk and detailed earthworks
• Set-out concrete and HD bolts
• Structural steel set-out and verticality surveys
• Set-out and alignment of generators and motors

Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal

Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal Pty Ltd (WICET) is owned and being developed by existing and potential coal exporters located in Queensland to provide increased long term export coal capacity.

Xcel Surveying is contracted by Worley Parsons to provide audit surveys as the client surveyor on behalf of WICET Pty Ltd. This $2.5 Billion project comprises a rail receiver facility to handle 7600 tonnes per hour, a 5.5 Km long overland conveyor, a stockyard area for 1.9 million tonnes of coal, a 2Km long jetty conveyor to a single berth travelling ship loader filling ships at 8250 tonnes per hour.

Our services included:

• Establish and maintain primary survey control network
• Audit checks on contractor’s secondary control networks
• Earthworks conformance, design, machine control setup and support
• Earthworks volume calculation
• Concrete and HD bolt conformances,
• Road conformances, existing road asbuilt
• Settlement and deformation monitoring, piling monitoring
• Structural and mechanical verticality and alignment checks
• Offshore/marine control checks, offshore stickbuilt fabrication checks
• Underground service asbuilts, service set outs
• Bill of quantities calculations, check on contractors monthly and final claims
• General survey support for clients miscellaneous requests

Newmont Mining Boddington Gold Mine Expansion

Xcel Surveying was contracted by Survey Link to provide it’s surveying services for the erection of structural steel and the installation of 4 Ball Mills. These mills were the largest ever constructed. Survey work on the ball mills was conducted to the strictest tolerances being +/- 1mm for XY and +/- 0.25mm for Z. All work had independent checks by Metso engineers (vendor) and were found to be within tolerances.

Fortescue Metal Group Anderson Point Port Facilities

XCEL was contracted by Survey Link to provide project surveyors to audit all contract surveyors on site and provide primary control for the construction of rail, wharf, roads, mechanical structures, civil foundations and a train unloader.

This project was developed for a phase 1 capacity of 45Mtpa and including the following packages:

Marine facilities, comprising conveyor trestles traversing 1,400m over complex ground conditions, a 90m approach jetty, two dolphin berths to accommodate vessels up to 270,000dwt and a ship loader support structure. The expansion of the ship manoeuvring area, departure area and berthing basin included some 4.5 million m3 of dredged silt and sandstone used in strategic reclamation of the stockyard area. Work included full delivery of all marine structures, ship loading equipment, dredging, stockyard areas and rail interfaces.