Get to know us
Shannon Mackenzie
Senior Principal Geoscientist / Director
BAppSc(EnvMgt), BSc(Hons)(Geol).
With 25+ years’ experience managing multidisciplinary closure projects in Australia and overseas, Shannon leads Mine Earth with industry insight and experience. He’s taken on senior peer and technical advisory roles, geological assessments of mine waste and landform design, closure performance assessment, and relinquishment planning.
Dr Véronique Lévy
Senior Principal Geochemist
BSc(EarthSci/Chem), PHD(Chem/Micbio)
Véronique brings over 25+ years of experience in geochemistry and water chemistry. Her skills include AMD prediction, geochemistry modeling, environmental impact assessments, and water treatment to inform mine operation and closure.
Matt Braimbridge
Senior Principal Geoscientist
BSc(Env).
Matt uses his 25+ years’ experience in assessing soil, waste rock and tailings properties, soil-water relations, soil profile morphology, soil erosion and amelioration, to inform landform design, rehabilitation and mine closure.
Stacey Gregory
Senior Principal Scientist
BSc(Env), MSc (EnvBio).
Accompanied by a knack for data management, Stacey has 23 years’ experience in mine closure and rehabilitation planning. She’s adept at closure risk and gaps assessments, undertaking monitoring assessments, closure performance data and statistical analysis.
Elis Smedley
Senior Principal Engineer
BEng(AOS)(Hons).
Elis brings 17 years’ experience in environmental engineering aspects of mine closure to Mine Earth. This includes closure and drainage design, earthworks modelling, options identification and evaluation, closure cost estimation, closure works supervision and conformance verification.
Jeremy Durbin
Senior Principal Scientist
BNatRes; DipBusMgt
For 20 years, Jeremy has focused on mine and asset closure planning, rehabilitation and revegetation management and supervision, plus environmental approvals, and project management.
Steph Lakis
Senior Principal Engineer
BEng(Mining)(Hons).
25+ years' experience across civil engineering, tunnelling and mining, in project management, project engineering, contract management, construction assurance and supervision.
Nicole de Kever
Senior Principal Geoscientist
BSc(Hons)(Geol) BA(Arch), MAIG
Nicole has 25+ years' experience in exploration geology, mine waste mapping and business management roles.
Sarah Perry
Principal Geoscientist
BSc(Hons)(SoilSc)
Utilising 23 years’ experience in environmental approvals, Sarah is an expert on closure planning, soil science and managing complex multidisciplinary projects.
Glendon Wesley
Principal Environmental Geologist
BSc(AppGeol)(Hons), MSc(EnvGeol)
As our Senior Environmental Geologist, Glendon has 19 years' of industry expertise in site-based geology roles. This includes mine waste sampling, geochemical and physical characterisation, and development of mine waste management plans.
Bronwyn Smedley
Senior Geoscientist
BSc(LandMgt) (Hons)
16 years' experience in soil, waste rock and tailings characterisation, rehabilitation trails and erosion assessment, with a focus on integration with landform design and mine closure planning.
Emily Denholm
Senior Environmental Engineer
BEng(Env), MEng(Env)(Hons)
With 7 years' in the engineering field, Emily prepares closure cost estimates, landform closure designs and supports the execution of closure works.
Nkosi Ndlovu
Senior Engineering Surveyor
BSc(MinEngSvy), GDip(MinEng[1st Class]), MSc(SpatialTech).
Nkosi is an experienced engineering surveyor and has 16 years' of experience in surface and underground mining. Nkosi's skills and experience span geographic information systems, land and aerial surveying, remote sensing, artificial intelligence applications, and 3D data acquisition and analysis. Nkosi is certified in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operations and emergency rescue.
Harry Crisp
Environmental Scientist
Bsc(EnvSci)
Harry has 2 years' experience in environmental consulting, occupational hygiene and spatial data modelling / visualisation.
Dinitha Bandaranayaka
Environmental Engineer
Bsc(EnvEng) (Hons)
Dinitha has 2 years' experience including the preparation of closure of cost estimates, and landform options definition and evaluation.
Kelsey Eldridge
Environmental Scientist
Bsc(EnvSci)
Kelsey is an Environmental Scientist with 3+ years’ experience in planning and executing mine rehabilitation projects.
Kelsey’s experience in mine rehabilitation has included supervising earthworks, conducting flora and fauna monitoring, coordinating native seed management, and ensuring the timely and safe delivery of rehabilitation projects.
Kelsey joined Mine Earth in early-2024 and brings her enthusiasm and practical experience to both the Soil and Closure groups.
Kedhar Adhikari
Civil Engineer
BEng(Civil)
Kedhar is a civil engineer with 7 years’ of experience in flood modelling and drainage design.
Kedhar has developed skills in software such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, EPA SWMM, ArcGIS, QGIS and HECRAS.
He also has experience in cost estimation, site supervision and project management.
Kedhar joined Mine Earth in August 2023 and supports the engineering team with his modelling, design and project management skills.
Samantha Ross
Office Manager
Ensuring Mine Earth's administration runs smoothly behind-the-scenes is no small task. With 16+ years' experience in administration and project management across multiple industries, Samantha makes it look easy.
Let's work together
info@mineearth.com.au
+ 61 8 9431 7318
Unit 1, 94 Forsyth Street
O’Connor, Western Australia 6163
PO Box 172
Grange LPO
QLD 4051