Hi, my name is
Lyon Momple
I am a Planning Engineer passionate about the mining industry and the technology shaping its future. My current area of focus is developing Deswik Modules tailored to clients' workflows that dramatically increase their productivity.
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Years Underground2.0km
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About Me
Hello! My name is Lyon Momple, a Planning Engineer who thrives on blending engineering expertise with a love for coding. I work at the Gwalia Deeps gold mine in Leonora, where I've worked my way through the underground planning disciplines — around two years of drill and blast engineering on the long-hole rigs, then ventilation and backfill, before stepping into my current planning role. During my breaks, I delve into developing Deswik Modules, aiming to enhance productivity.
My colleagues observed my enthusiasm and encouraged me to help automate tasks and improve efficiency for others. I'm dedicated to making work more intelligent and efficient by combining engineering and coding.
I am also building Sarastar, a CAD-style design tool written in C++, focused on heavy multithreading and robust design capabilities. It features a potent node-graph automation system for end-users, drawing inspiration from the likes of Blender, Godot, and Unreal Engine.
Outside of my day-to-day role, I volunteer on site with our Emergency Response Team (ERT), training and competing in emergency response challenges alongside my colleagues — a hands-on reminder that safety and teamwork underpin everything we do on site.
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What I Do
Mine Planning
Long- and short-term planning for one of Australia's deepest underground gold mines — scheduling, design, and pulling the engineering disciplines together so the mine plan actually holds.
Deswik.CAD · Scheduling · Underground PlanningDrill & Blast
Two years of production drill and blast on Gwalia's long-hole rigs — ring design, charge plans, and the daily problem-solving that keeps stoping on plan.
Ring Design · Long-Hole StopingVentilation & Backfill
A year running two of the mine's most safety-critical systems — modelling airflow and planning fill sequences so both stay ahead of the mining front.
Ventilation Modelling · Fill SchedulingSoftware Development
The other half of my brain: C++ and C# tooling that removes manual work — custom Deswik modules, process maps, and web portals for mining clients, plus Sarastar, a multithreaded CAD package I'm building from scratch.
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Experience
Planning Engineer
Genesis Minerals · Gwalia
Long- and short-term planning for the mine — scheduling, design, and coordinating the engineering disciplines I used to work in day to day.
Ventilation & Backfill Engineer
Genesis Minerals · Gwalia
A year running the mine's ventilation and backfill engineering — keeping two safety-critical systems planned ahead of the mining front.
Drill & Blast Engineer
St Barbara / Genesis Minerals · Gwalia
Two years of production drill and blast on the long-hole rigs, growing from graduate to engineer through the St Barbara to Genesis transition — ring design, charge plans, and keeping stoping on plan.
Graduate Mining Engineer
Westgold Resources · Fortnum
First site role — a graduate rotation across the underground engineering disciplines.
Education
Masters of Professional Engineering
Mining Engineering · University of Western Australia
Bachelors Degree
Engineering Science · University of Western Australia
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Projects
Sarastar
A CAD package built for speed, with a heavily multi-threaded C++ core. Inspired by Blender, Godot, and Unreal Engine, Sarastar features a node-graph-based automation system that gives end-users powerful design and automation capabilities — here running a live underground ring design.
C++ · CAD · Node GraphsVisit Sarastar
IBT Survey Portal
A web portal built for IBT Mining on top of the IBT Deswik module — drill plans, surveyed holes, QC metrics, rigs, and drillers managed in one place across dozens of Western Australian sites, instead of scattered spreadsheets.
React · TypeScriptIBT Deswik Module
Deswik · C#A custom Deswik module that simplifies surveyed hole data processing for IBT Mining. What previously meant shuffling data between Deswik and multiple Excel sheets is now handled entirely within Deswik.CAD, cutting processing time down to seconds.
Deswik Process Maps
Deswik · SQLProcess maps and modules that connect Deswik directly to remote databases, eliminating laborious Excel exports. They reliably export drill holes to ring setouts for surveys and automate drill hole setup for underground timing plans, removing 20-minute manual processing tasks.
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