Mike O'Kane

Mike O’Kane, P.Eng., M.Sc., MAusIMM, GCB.D, founded Okane Consultants (Okane) in 1996, a company providing integrated mine planning, closure, and relinquishment solutions to the mining industry internationally. Mike is the chair of Okane’s Board of Directors and continues to work within Okane as a senior technical advisor, using his wide-ranging technical expertise and knowledge on risk management best practices as tools for development and communication of closure planning and project specific objectives and designs. He is a recognized subject matter expert in cover system and landform design, and application of unsaturated zone hydrology and geochemistry, for mine waste management.  Mike is a director of the Landform Design Institute and co-chair of its Technical Advisory Panel.  He holds a Global ESG Competence Boards Designation.

In 2014 Mike received the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Achievement Award for “Global Development of his Business and Corporation, and Philanthropy”

Mike will deliver a talk at the 2025 AMD Workshop titled "Source Control for AMD Risk Management using Cover System and Landform Design–Lessons from a Quarter Century of Practice"