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Pekka Bergström
Education GradCert.Eng in Mine Design & Planning,
West Australian School of Mines, Australia
MSc in Geology and Mineralogy,
Oulu University, Finland
Diploma in Mining and Quarrying.
Lappeenranta Technical College, Finland
Professional
Memberships
Member of Finnish Association of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers (Vuorimiesyhdistys ry)
Member of Finnish Mining and Quarrying
Association (Vuoriteknikot ry)
Finnish National Group of ISRM
Specialisation: Geotechnical risk management; open pit and underground geotechnical
monitoring system design; installation and data interpretation; ground support
design; underground design; drill and blast design; operations support; seismic
monitoring.
Expertise:
Pekka Bergström is a Senior Geomechanics Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in hard rock
mining industry (open pit & underground) including over 10 year’ experience working in deep high
stress mines in Finland and in Australia. He holds Graduate Certificate Engineering in Mine Design
and Planning as well as MSc in geology and Mineralogy and diploma in mining and quarrying.
After first working as Mine Geologist at the Tara Mines in Ireland, he held several different positions
as a Mine geologist, Mining Engineer and Geotechnical Engineer in Australia. He worked as a
Geotechnical Engineer in several deep high stress mines in Broken Hill, NSW and Kalgoorlie, W A.
During the most recent 3 years, Pekka has worked as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at the
Pyhäsalmi Mine, Finland. Pekka Bergström worked for SRK Consulting in 2015 – 2016 s Senior
Consultant (Rock Mechanics) and Kevitsa Mining Oy 2016 as Senior Drill, Blast and Geotechnical
Engineer in May 2016.
Pekka’s specialisation includes in mine operations support, ground support designs, underground
mine design, seismic monitoring and seismic hazard management, geotechnical monitoring systems
design and installation and drill and blast designs in underground / open pit hard rock mines.
Employment Record:
2016 - Senior Drill/Blast and Geotechnical Engineer, Boliden Kevitsa Mining Oy,
Finland
2015 - 2016 Senior Geotechnical Consultant, SRK Consulting (Finland) Oy, Finland
2011 - 2015 Senior Geotechnical Engineer, First Quantum Minerals LTD – Pyhäsalmi
Mine, Finland
2010 - 2011 Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Barrick Kanowna – Raleigh Mine, Australia
2008 - 2010 Geotechnical Engineer, Barrick Kanowna – Raleigh Mine, Australia
2007 - 2008 Geotechnical Engineer, Perilya Broken Hill Pty Ltd – Broken Hill Mine,
Australia
2004 - 2007 Geotechnical Engineer, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mine – Fimiston
Open Pit , Australia
2003 - 2004 Voids Technical Officer, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mine – Fimiston
Open Pit , Australia

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1999 – 2003
1998 – 1999
1995 – 1998
Drill and Blast Engineer, MPI Mines – Black Swan Nickel Mine, Australia
Mine Geologist, Outokumpu Mining Australia Pty LtD – Forrestania Nickel
Mine, Australia
Mine Geologist, Outokumpu Tara Mines Ltd – Tara Mine, Ireland
Specialised Software Skills:
IMS Seismic software (IMS) MAP3D (MINCAD Sy stems) GroundProbe Radar Software
Vulcan (Maptek) Phases2 (Rocscience Inc.) AdamTECH (Adam technologies)
Surpac (Gemcom) SWedge (Rocscience Inc.) UnWedge (Rocscience Inc.)
Sirovision (CAE Mining) DIPS (Rocscience Inc.) UnWedge (Rocscience Inc.)
Rockfall (Rocscience Inc.) MS-RAP (ACG) Mine Monitor (Mine Design technologies)
Languages: Finnish (Native); English (Fluent); Swedish (Basic understanding); Spanish
(Basic understanding)
Publication:
Bergström, P., Sahala, K., Hakala, M. (2014) From high stress to destressed – mining in changing
conditions. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Deep and High Stress Mining,
Sudbury, Canada
Industry Experience (Selected):
Boliden Kevitsa Mining Oy, Kevitsa Mine, Finland 2016 – present – Role: Senior Drill/Blast and
Geotechnical Engineer. Responsible for drill and blast activities and rock mechanics of open pit
operation.
 Drill and Blast operations and Geotechnical Engineering at Kevitsa open pit operation.
 Monitoring and optimisation of drill and blast activities/performance as well developing and
implementing sound geotechnical engineering practices as it apply to open pit mining operations.
 Maintain and improve safe work practices in the area of Drilling and Blast and Open Pit slope
management.
 Identify and implement Drill and Blast related continuous improvement initiatives with specific
consideration to Mine to mill optimisation and Limits Blasting practices.
 Ensure that Geotechnical aspects are adequately considered in relation to mine design,
planning and mining operation as outlined in the Ground Control Management Plan (GCMP)
 Maintain and enhance contractor relationships.
 Provide drill and blast engineering services, including blast hole pattern, charging and initiation
design.
 Liaise with planning, geology and production personnel to efficiently schedule drill and blast
activities.
 Manage and mitigate drill and blast related risks for the operation.
 Monitor powder factors, bulk and initiating explosive usage, drill metres and performance metrics
against budget.
 Coordination and review drilling and charging QA/QC data and blast performance data including
but not limited to fragmentation, shovel/excavator productivity, material movement, wall quality
and condition and ore dilution and loss from blasting.
 Take a leading role in the Mine to mill optimisation process.
 Take a leading role in respecting and complying with the health, safety and environmental
practices of the organisation.
 Lead or assist with incident investigations involving explosive usage.
 Consult with the site geological/geotechnical engineer/third party consultant to manage and
optimise pit wall stability.

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 Undertakes study/analysis of the Drilling and Blasting cost in relation to its downstream
benefit/effect on the whole mining value chain and take appropriate action to achieve/maintain
optimum outcome.
 Undertakes benchmarking with sister site in term of Drilling and Blast performance management
process.
 Provide coaching to junior colleague.
 Investigate and introduce innovation/technology new product to improve Drilling and Blasting
performance. In liaison with the Chief Geologist ensure that geological information pertinent to
the geotechnical aspects of slope stability are collected through mapping and faces inspection,
analysed, interpreted and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
 Develop and maintain geotechnical database based on the geotechnical setting and the mining
environment at Kevitsa open pit.
 Undertake stability evaluation and analysis as required with specific attention on the compliance
to the specified design parameters across the pit and occurrences of weak zones and geological
structures affecting slope stability.
 Develop and implement process and/or procedure to manage alteration to final pit limit.
 Use the GCMP to continuously assess and evaluate the suitability of current mine design and
overall slope stability; develop adequate stability monitoring program to determine wall stability
conditions.
 Ensure industry best practices are applied to pit limit blasting
 so as to prevent damage to the rock mass behind the design line.
 Lead and Coordinate third party periodic geotechnical audits.
 Undertake ground awareness training for mine personnel as required
SRK Consulting (Finland) Oy, Finland 2015 – 2016 – Role: Senior Consultant (Rockmechanics).
 Geotechnical projects in Finland / Norway: rock mechanical training, slope stability assessments
 Part of the SRK Consulting project teams in several projects in Scandinavia.
First Quantum Minerals LTD, Pyhäsalmi Mine, Finland 2011 – 2015 – Role: Senior Geotechncial
Engineer. Responsible for rock mechanics of 1.4Mtpa underground operation.
 Geotechnical management and support to underground operation and mine planning.
 Ground support design and scheduling and ground support quality control.
 Seismic system management and development for high stress, high seismic risk deep
underground mine.
 Seismic data analysis and seismic risk management.
 Open pit and underground geotechnical inspections.
 Design and implement geotechnical monitoring programs as required (seismic monitoring,
wireless extensometer monitoring).
 Stope designs and stope stability assessments for open stope underground operation.
 Interaction with Mine Planning Engineers regarding mine design and scheduling and production.
 Provide ground awareness training to Underground Personnel, inclusive of major seismic event
and fall of ground presentations.
 Design and implementation of ground damage mapping system.
 Geotechnical shaft inspections.
Barrick Kanowna, Raleigh Gold Mine, Australia 2010 – 2011 – Role: Senior Geotechnical
Engineer. Responsible for rock mechanics of small narrow vein underground operation.
 Geotechnical management and support to underground operation and mine planning.
 Ensure awareness of all ground control issues and effectively communicate with production
personnel and technical staff.
 Regular site inspection, as required by the ground control management plan.
 Design, implement and maintain the site ground control management plan and setting ground
control standards in accordance with the site requirement, industry and regional standards.
 Ensure that quality control as stipulated by the sites ground control management plan is
undertaken (support, support installation, support performance).

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 Seismic system data collection, seismic system management, seismic system upgrade and
management of seismic system expansion.
 Follow up on all ground control reports (FOG, damage, seismic activity) and provide adequate
feedback to production personnel and technical staff.
 Seismic emergency procedure development.
 Ground support design and scheduling – manage and optimise ground support layout designs
and support standards across the site.
 Undertake and interpret geotechnical data collection.
 Management and scheduling of the site scaling program.
 Regular geotechnical open pit inspections.
 Prepare and present ground awareness sessions.
 Supervision and training for Geotechnical Engineer.
Barrick Kanowna, Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, Australia 2008 – 2010 – Role: Geotechnical
Engineer. Responsible for rock mechanics with other Geotechnical Engineers of 1.4MPa underground
operation.
 Advice and provide consultative services on geotechnical issues.
 Process and interpret seismic data and efficiently present results to production personnel and
staff.
 Seismic system management (maintenance and upgrade).
 Site geotechnical inspection as required by the ground control management plan.
 Ground support quality control management.
 Follow up on all ground control report and provide adequate feedback for all personnel.
 Manage the site scaling programme.
 Manage and undertake geotechnical core logging and core logging validation.
 Manage and update MS-RAP (mine seismicity risk analysis) program.
 Manage, update and interpret data from geotechnical database (geotechnical mapping; ground
support quality control; stope design and reconciliation; damage reports; incident reporting).
 Design and document rehabilitation and ground support memorandums as required from
inspections.
 Supervision and training for Graduate Geotechnical Engineer.
 Undertake open pit geotechnical inspections.
Perilya Broken Hill Pty Ltd, Perilya Mine, Australia 2007 – 2008 – Role: Geotechnical Engineer.
Responsible for rock mechanics with other Geotechnical Engineers of 3 different underground
operations.
 Advice and provide consultative services to Technical Services and Mine Departments on
geotechnical issues.
 Ground support design, quality monitoring, and performance in deep mine excavations
 Design and installation of ground monitoring systems including micro seismic, extensometers,
prism monitoring, smart cables.
 Geotechnical/geological mapping to input into rock mass domain modelling, ground support
design of excavations.
 Provide ground awareness training to Underground Personnel, inclusive of major seismic event
and fall of ground presentations.
 Regular shaft geotechnical inspections.
 Working with production staff and consultants to ensure ground support is planned, designed and
installed in timely and appropriate matter.
 Collect rock mass geotechnical data from the underground mines.
 Geotechnical inspections of the open pits and underground mines.
 Operate and maintain mine geotechnical monitoring systems such as seismic monitoring system.
 Monitoring and installation of mechanical extensometers.
 Micro seismic system management and data interpretation.
 Seismic risk management.
 Document and analyse seismic activity with respect to mining.

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 Accident / Incident inspections (geotechnical issues).
 Stope stability analysis.
 Prepare and issue ground control designs (ground support) to facilitate safe mining conditions.
Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Fimiston Open Pit, Australia 2003 – 2007 – Role:
Geotechnical Engineer & Voids Technical Officer. Responsible for rock mechanics with other
Geotechnical Engineers of 85MPa open pit operation
 Encouraging and enforcing a safe working environment in the open pit relation to old
underground workings.
 Advice and provide consultative services to Technical Services and Mine Departments on
geotechnical issues.
 Ground support design, scheduling and supervising (contractor).
 Working with production staff, contractors and consultants to ensure slope ground support is
planned, designed and installed in a timely and appropriate manner.
 Geotechnical mapping and core logging.
 Geotechnical inspections.
 Presplit drilling and blasting quality control and monitoring.
 Management of prims monitoring system (ATS).
 Monitoring and installation of electronical and mechanical extensometers.
 Ground water monitoring.
 Micro seismic system (ISS) management and data interpretation.
 Assistance of Mt Charlotte Mine (underground operation) Geotechnical Engineer when required.
 Utilised and applied GroundProbe slope stability radar monitoring systems as well implementing
slope failure alarms after domain and trigger based slope failure back analysis.
 Rock fall trials and analysis.
 Working with production personnel to ensure that batter clean ups are done in timely and safe
manner.
 Subsidence notification and investigations.
 Access permission for equipment and personnel relation to old underground workings.
 Probe drilling designs to detect old underground workings.
 Deep blasting designs for old underground workings.
 CALS cavity3D surveys and data handling.
MPI Mines, Black Swan Nickel Mines, Australia 1999 – 2003 – Role: Drill and Blast Engineer.
 Blast hole drilling and charging designs (long hole open stoping).
 Co-ordinating underground drill and blast operations with the contractors.
 Cable bolting designs.
 Working with geotechnical staff and consultants to ensure stope ground support is planned,
designed and installed in a timely, safe and appropriate manner.
 Development a geotechnical program for Cygnet ore body (new ore body) by assessing ground
conditions in underground openings using geotechnical mapping and core logging.
 Underground geotechnical mapping.
 Underground mine layout designs (stopes & development).
 Monthly reports of drill and blast and geotechnical activity.
 Stope production scheduling.
Outokumpu Mining Australia Pty LTD, Forrestania Nickel Mines, Australia 1998 – 1999 – Role:
Drill and Blast Engineer and Mine Geologist
 Blast hole drilling and charging designs (long hole open stoping).
 OMS Logg (geophysics) measurement, calibration and data handling.
 Geological interpretation of OMS Logg geophysical data.
 Percussion sample drilling planning and sampling.
 Underground geological and geotechnical mapping and core logging.
 Stope production scheduling and monthly production reporting.

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Outokumpu Tara Mines Ltd, Tara Mines, Ireland 1995 – 1998 – Role: Mine Geologist
 Installation of the OMS Logg geophysical system to the mine and training employees (use and
maintenance).
 OMS Logg measurements, calibration and data handling.
 EMS (drill hole dip and direction indicator) measurements.
 Production diamond drilling designs, core logging and sampling.
 Exploration diamond drilling core logging.
 Reserve calculations
 Underground inspections and geological / geotechnical mapping.
 Geological interpretation for mine planning.