Black Lion Limited
Black Lion Limited
A specialist Mining and Quarrying Consultant, managing mineral resources and extraction operations in New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
Founded in November 2013; our mission is to provide personalised, focused, cost effective, professional solutions for our customers. Putting our clients first by keeping our overheads low and nurturing a synaptic working relationship using communication tools freely available to reduce costs across the board.
Expertise
Safety Management Systems
Leading specialist in UAV Survey for mines and quarries
Geotechnical Consulting in Mines & Quarries
Principal Hazard Management Plans
Mine & Quarry Planning
Rehabilitation Planning
Mine water management
Geotechnical Site Investigation
Strata Control
Slope Stability Assessment
Underground Voids, Gas & Fires
 Busy split heading, Westconnex M5 |  Slimline Geophysics |  Dawn Drilling at Westport Quarry |
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 QuarryNZ 2015 Exhibition |  Sparks from RH11. New M5 |  Mine Infrastructure, Jamaica |
 Geological Mapping, Kwazulu-Natal |  Underground Mining, South Africa |  Stockton Coal Mine, NZ |
 Holing through cross passage. |  Slope Failure, Stockton, NZ |  Reinforced Slope, Stockton, NZ |
 Underground Support Assessment, NZ |  Cascade Mine, NZ |  No.2 South Cutback, Stockton, NZ |
 Sense of distance. Westconnex New M5 |  UAV Operation, Whitehall Quarry, NZ |  Sausage Sizzle, Buller Fireworks, NZ |
 Russell Street Office, Westport |  Geotechnical Investigation, Maruia |  Underground Mining, South Africa |
 Robodrill in the trailing heading. |  Geotechnical Drilling, Jamaica |  Site Investigation Drilling, Jamaica |
 Underground Mining, South Africa |  Heli Drilling, West Coast NZ |
Our Latest News
2017
Underneath Sydney's Inner West.
Westconnex New M5 Tunnel
Our Principal Consultant, Alex Phillips, has been assisting Golder Associates' Sydney team with their Construction Phase Services since February 2017.
The New M5 will provide twin underground motorway tunnels, nine kilometres long, from Kingsgrove to a new St Peters Interchange at the site of the old Alexandria landfill facility. The St Peters Interchange will provide motorists with connections to Alexandria and Mascot. It also includes connections to the future Sydney Gateway and M4-M5 Link. The New M5 tunnels also include underground connection points for the M4-M5 Link and the proposed Southern Connector.
Alex has been undertaking round the clock geotechnical mapping, verification of ground conditions and recommendations for additional support where required.
July 2017
ACC Silver Accreditation for Johnson Bros.
Johnson Brothers Transport Safety Management Plan.
Following last year's assistance in developing an updated Safety Management System to Johnson Brothers Transport (2006) Ltd; a significant local business and employer, we were pleased to hear that they have achieved ACC Silver Accreditation. This accreditation directly affects their bottom line as a business with significantly lower ACC levies, keep up the good work JBT!
May 2016
Data in the Cloud!
Symmetric Software Distribution.
In May 2016 Black Lion Limited and K&A Epimetron entered into partnership for Australasian Distribution and first level support for their product Symmetric.
Symmetric is a Complete, Intuitive, Dedicated, Geotechnical Drilling management Software Platform. It allows you to enter, process and monitor Geotechnical data wherever they are, wherever you are, in real time, over the Internet.
Best of all, the information is immediately available to supervisors, managers, clients and users alike, whether they are on the road or in the office.
To find out more click here....
May 2016
Assisting local business to achieve H&S excellence.
Johnson Brothers Transport Safety Management Review.
We have been asked to assist Johnson Brothers Transport (2006) Ltd; a significant local business and employer in developing an updated Safety Management System. This work involves a review of their existing systems and then implementing a few changes to enable them to achieve ACC Fleet Saver accreditation. Attaining this will have a significant bottom line impact on their business in terms of levies and reputation.
1/1/16
Explosive Start to 2016!
Buller Fireworks Extravaganza
We were really pleased to be able to assist again in this year's Buller Fireworks. What a great event and subscibed, we felt, by more people that 2015.
Great effort by all concerned and hope to be able to make this a regular New Years Day event for our region.