Leave or vacancy coverage
Temporary Environment Manager, Superintendent or senior advisory support.
Environmental Leadership | Rehabilitation | Mine Closure
Experienced environmental capability when mining operations need it most.
Interim leadership, rehabilitation and closure delivery, approvals, due diligence and senior project support—provided by a site-capable mining environmental professional with more than 25 years of experience.
Townsville-based • FIFO, remote and international assignments
When NG Mining Environmental can assist
Additional senior capacity without the delay of a permanent appointment.
NG Mining Environmental can mobilise into temporary leadership roles or defined projects, rapidly establish priorities and help maintain environmental performance while longer-term arrangements are made.
Capability gaps
Senior direction, mentoring and environmental-function stabilisation.
Rehabilitation delivery
Renewed focus on progressive, legacy or earthworks-based rehabilitation programs.
Care and maintenance
Compliance continuity, risk prioritisation and early restart planning.
Project workload
Additional capacity for approvals, closure studies, audits and operational readiness.
Investment decisions
Environmental and closure due diligence for acquisitions or project evaluation.
Core services
Practical support from strategy through to site delivery.
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Interim Environmental Leadership
Temporary leadership during leave, recruitment, organisational change or periods of increased operational demand.
- Environment Manager and Superintendent coverage
- Team and contractor leadership
- Risk, compliance and performance oversight
- Regulator and stakeholder engagement
- Care-and-maintenance and restart support
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Rehabilitation & Closure Delivery
Senior support linking environmental outcomes with mining, survey, earthworks, contractors and operational priorities.
- Progressive and legacy rehabilitation
- Earthworks campaign oversight
- Closure planning and liability reviews
- Costing and financial provisioning support
- Specialist closure-study coordination
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Approvals, Compliance & Readiness
Approvals, assurance and management-system support across development, operational change and transition into operations.
- Approval strategies and submissions
- EA amendments, PRCP and ERC support
- Compliance and audit closeout
- Management systems and plans
- Construction and operational readiness
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Projects, Due Diligence & Senior Capacity
Defined work packages for mining companies, investors, project teams and consultancies requiring experienced capability.
- Environmental due diligence
- Environmental and closure liability reviews
- Senior workstream leadership
- Consultant and study coordination
- Independent technical review and assurance
Representative experience
Experience across the full mining lifecycle.
Operational and project experience across Australia, Africa and Southeast Asia—from approvals and construction through to operations, care and maintenance, rehabilitation and closure.
25+years in mining environment and operations
3regions: Australia, Africa and Southeast Asia
~1,000 haannual progressive rehabilitation under team accountability
Full lifecycledevelopment, operations, rehabilitation and closure
Interim leadership
Environmental continuity through operational change
Maintained environmental governance across multiple copper assets during voluntary administration and transition into care and maintenance, while supporting the re-establishment of exploration and early restart planning.
Rehabilitation
Large-scale progressive rehabilitation
Led teams responsible for rehabilitation, revegetation and land-management programs covering up to approximately 1,000 hectares annually at a major bauxite operation.
Closure and liability
Integrated closure management
Developed closure cost estimates, advised on provisioning, coordinated technical studies and oversaw tailings and waste-rock rehabilitation at Tanami Operations.
Award
Newmont Chairman’s AwardRecognised for planning and delivery of the Groundrush rehabilitation and closure project.
Insights from practice
Practical observations from mining environmental leadership.
Short articles exploring environmental leadership, rehabilitation, closure, approvals and operational delivery—grounded in practical site experience.
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Interim environmental leadership is not just about filling a vacancy
Why experienced short-term leadership matters when obligations continue through leave, recruitment, organisational transition and periods of increased workload.
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Nathan Goodwin
Environmental Engineer and mining professional with more than 25 years of experience across project development, construction, operations, care and maintenance, rehabilitation and closure.
Nathan has held senior environmental leadership roles with major and mid-tier mining organisations, leading multidisciplinary teams, contractors and consultants in remote and highly scrutinised operating environments.
His Environmental Engineering qualification, Graduate Diploma of Mining and practical operational experience allow him to work effectively across environment, mining, survey, technical services and contractor interfaces.
International capability
Host-country approvals and lender-aligned environmental performance.
Experience supporting internationally financed mining projects against host-country requirements, IFC Performance Standards, lender assurance expectations and Equator Principles-aligned frameworks.
Ghana
Ahafo North ESIA baseline studies
Managed multidisciplinary environmental and social baseline studies aligned with Ghanaian regulatory requirements and IFC Performance Standards. The studies subsequently supported approval and financing processes.
Vietnam
Nui Phao construction-to-operations transition
Led environmental management through construction, commissioning and operational ramp-up, including operating approvals, IFC monitoring support and lender environmental and social assurance.
Short-term FIFO assignments
•Leave relief
•Fixed-term contracts
•Defined work packages
•Remote support
•Associate consulting
Start a conversation
Discuss your environmental capacity or project requirement.
Share a brief outline of the requirement and Nathan will respond directly. For immediate or confidential enquiries, phone or email using the details below.
Nathan Goodwin
Principal Consultant — NG Mining Environmental
+61 477 841 028
ngoodwinconsulting@gmail.com
Townsville, Queensland
FIFO, remote and international availability
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