Senior Lecturer
(MEA Node: UNSW School of Mining Engineering)

Email: d.chalmers@mea.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385 5727

Qualifications

B.E. n Mining Engineering, University of NSW, 1976
M.E.(Honors) in Mining Engineering, University of Wollongong, 1988
Graduate Diploma in Education, 1983
NSW & QLD Certificates of Competency
Colliery Deputy, 1977
Colliery Undermanager, 1978
Colliery Manager, 1983
Mines Rescue, 1976
Powderman, 1996
Explosives TAFE NSW S.A, 1994

Employment

1971 – 72 AIS/ BHP, Corrimal Colliery. Miner
1977 – 79 AIS/BHP Bulli Colliery. Deputy and Shotfirer
1974 – 76 AIS/BHP, Corrimal, Cordeaux, Appin, Tower & Metropolitan Collieries. Mine Trainee
1988 – 98 Illawarra Inst Tech. Wollongong. Head, Mining
1973 KCC, Coalcliff Colliery. Miner
1979 – 81 Metropolitan Colliery. Undermanager
1988,91,97 Relieving Mine Manager
1981 – 87 TAFE, Wollongong. Teacher of Mining
1998 –  UNSW School of Mining Engineering. Senior Lecturer
Coordinator Statutory Ventilation Officers’ Course/ Graduate Diploma in Mine
Ventilation

Professional Societies

NSW Colliery Managers Association, Member
Institute of Quarrying Australia, Fellow

Teaching Areas

Mine Ventilation
Explosives
Mining Methods
Mine Design
Mine Management
Mine Materials Transport

Research Interests

Permitted Explosives, Mine Management, Safety Management, Mine Ventilation Systems, Blast Design,
Environmental Management, Roadway Behaviour, Mine Layout, Quarry design, Quarry management,
Risk Management

Selected Publications

Chalmers, D R & Moreby, R, 2002. Ventilation Training – Planning Tools, in Proc. North American Ninth
U.S. Mine Ventilation Symp., Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Chalmers, D 2004. The use of blasting fumes to inertise underground coal mine atmospheres, in Proc.
North American Tenth U.S. Mine Ventilation Symp.,Anchorage Alaska, USA
Fowler, C & Chalmers, D R 2006. The application of infra-red ‘open path’methane detection and
measurement to Australian underground coal mines, in Proc. North American Eleventh U.S. Mine
Ventilation Symp.,Penn.State Pennsylvania, USA
Chalmers, D R 2006.Ventilation education and Training, in Proc. North American Eleventh U.S. Mine
Ventilation Symp.,Penn.State Pennsylvania, USA
Chalmers, D R, Freak, K & Freeman, A 2004. Permitted Explosives for 21Century – Stage 1 Final Report
ACARP

Professional Interests and Consulting

Fellow, Institute of Quarrying, Australia
Consultant to industry in ventilation management and control, blasting systems, permitted explosives,
training and crib room talks programs