Woodie Woodie, operated by Consolidated Minerals, is one of Australia’s largest suppliers of high-grade manganese ore.
With a historical dewatering rate of 250–2,000 L/s, Woodie Woodie is also one of the top ten dewatering operations in the world, by historical pumping volume.
Rockwater developed and maintains an eight-layer FEFLOW model to simulate drawdowns around pit sumps and production bores with extraction rates of up to 150 L/s. The client’s regional Leapfrog geological model, geophysical datasets and historical water level and pumping data, were used to define high-permeability faults and low-permeability barriers, which dominate groundwater flow in the mine corridor.
The FEFLOW model is also used to assess environmental impacts on stygofauna and other environmental receptors in the region.
