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Brayan González Carvajal

JUNIOR CONSULTANT South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open cut coal.
  • Commodity Experience: Coal.
  • Skills: Reserving for stratigraphic deposits, Short Term Planning, Technical Support.

Shane Bellamy

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT AND TEAM LEAD APAC
  • 20 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in surface mining
  • Methods: Strip Mining – Dragline, Truck & Shovel, Cast/Doze/Excavate; Terrace Mining
  • Skills: Mine Planning, Design & Scheduling (Short, Medium & Long Term); Dragline Planning and Optimisation; Mine Closure Planning; Business Plan Development; Pit Optimisation
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Kevin Lu

MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 10 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining operations. 
  • Methods: Short, medium and long-term planning | Open Pit metals 
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Coal, Gold, Iron Ore.

Sindi Idwin

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 30+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Surface mining – Metal and Coal, Underground Metal
  • Methods: Terrace Mining | Open Pit | Strip Mine,Pit Optimization, JORC calculation, Pit Design, Scheduling, Stope Optimiser and Design
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Coal, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Phosphate, Manganese

Mulalo Matshusa

MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 8+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining hard rock
  • Methods: Room and pillar, Narrow Reef mining and conventional mining
  • Commodity Experience: Platinum

Edgar Mashilwane

MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 6+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground and open pit mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, Open Pit, Quarrying, Underhand cut and fill, Sub Level Stoping, Conventional Narrow Reef
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Platinum, Copper, Coal, Zinc, Iron ore, Manganese, Aggregates

Shale Masindi

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining and Surface mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, Narrow tabular, Truck and Shovel, Long hole open stoping, Mine rehabilitation
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Iron Ore, Platinum, Diamond

Francis Pepin

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 25+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, cut and fill, open stoping, narrow vein, shrinkage
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Nickel, Zinc, Copper

Ana Andrade

SENIOR CONSULTANT South America
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Major experience in underground mining.
  • Methods: Underground Metals Methods in general, for example Cut and Fill and Sublevel Stoping.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Iron Ore.
  • Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Joyce Chung

Global Technical Advisor - Optimisation APAC
  • Mining Engineering and Optimisation Experience: Specializes in underground mining and open pit mining.
  • Expertise: Mathematical Optimisation, Strategic Planning, Material Selection Optimisation etc.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Iron Ore, Nickle, Copper

Adrian Beadle

MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Large open stoping, narrow vein, sub-level stoping, remnant mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Nickel

Jerome Robert Martel P.Eng, M.Sc.

Senior Mining Consultant North America
  • 10+ Years of Experience: Open pit and Underground mining engineering and operation
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Iron, Titanium, Asbestos
  • Methods: Open stoping, Open pit using trucks and shovels
  • Country Experience: Canada (Quebec, Nunavut), Mexico, Guinea
  • Languages: French, English, Spanish

Vitus Meyer

OPS Consultant APAC
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering & Software Experience: Specializes in Digital Mining Technologies
  • Applications: Operational scheduling and execution, SIC (short-interval-control), telemetry, location tracking and 3D visualization, simulation, digital system design and integrations
  • Software Experience: Deswik.OPS, Sandvik OptiMine®, Sandvik MineGame

Seena Sabeti

MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 7+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining. Short, medium and long term planning & design.
  • Methods: On-Seam Strip | Through-Seam Terrace | Open Pit Metals | Block Caving | SLC
  • Commodity Experience: Iron, Coal, Gold, Copper

Palpreet (Paul) Singh

MINING CONSULTANT - SUPPORT APAC
  • 6+ Years of Mine Surveying & Engineering Experience: Specializing in data management solutions for mining operations and Customer Support
  • Methods: Large- and small-scale open stoping, SLC
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Cobalt

Graham MacRae

Technical Lead – Operational Products North America
  • 14+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Long hole open stoping, Transverse stoping, Avoca mining, cut and fill, Long Room Continuous Mining, Panel Chevron Mining, Narrow vein, Dragline Mining, Dredge Mining, Sub Level Caving.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Platinum, Potash, Phosphate.

Manos Kyriazis

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT Europe
  • 18+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in both underground and surface mine design and planning, technology implementation and process improvement, as well as mine plan optimization.
  • Methods: Long Hole Open Stoping, Block and Sub-Level Caving, Drift – Cut and Fill, Room and Pillar, Long Wall Panel, Open Pit, Terrace and Strip mining.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Iron, Potash, industrial minerals.

Yulius Shoid

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 19+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Surface Mining
  • Methods: Open Cut Coal I Strip Mining I Terrace Mining
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Luke Babao

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, underhand cut and fill, large open stoping, narrow vein, SLC and block caving.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper.

Marcela Sepúlveda

SENIOR CONSULTANT South America
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining and mine closure
  • Commodity Experience: Nickel, Gold, Coal, Limestone

Ian Neilsen

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in opencut mining and closure projects
  • Methods: Strip | Open Pit | Terrace Mining; Pit Optimization, Short, Medium & long-term planning; Developing Scheduling and Landform & Haulage models; Progressive and Integrated Mine Closure Planning
  • Commodity Experience: Coal (Metallurgical & Thermal)

Daniel Thomas

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specialises in open cut and underground coal.
  • Methods: Strip | Open Pit | Terrace Mining; Bord and Pillar, Longwall.
  • Short, Medium and Long Term Mine Planning; Design & Scheduling; Drill & Blast; Landform and Haulage.
  • Commodity Experience: Coal, Gold, Copper

Rachel Marshall

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Europe
  • 11 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Chartered Mining Engineer (CEng) specializing in mine planning systems
  • Capability: Underground and open pit planning across all planning horizons
  • Interest: Open pit optimisation, pit, waste dump, stockpile and road design
  • Commodity Experience: Iron ore, Bauxite, Gold, Coal, Aggregates and Base Metals
  • Country Experience: Sweden, Finland, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Australia and Spain

Jorge Moris

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground and open pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Copper

Somayeh Behraftar

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in operational and technical underground mining and Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Methods: Large- and small-scale open stoping, narrow vein, remnant mining, SLC, and block caving.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, lead, zinc, silver, copper.

Steven DiFilippo

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Iron Ore, Nickel, Copper, Lithium

Eliezer Amaral

Junior Consultant South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit Mining.
  • Methods: Open Pit – Short, Mid & Long-Term Planning.
  • Commodity Experience: Iron Ore, Copper
  • Languages: Portuguese and English

Sebastián Carvallo

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • +12 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining.
  • Methods: Long Hole Stoping, Cut and Fill, Narrow Vein and Room and Pillar.
  • Commodity Experience: Cooper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc.
  • Country Experience: Chile, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia.

Hein Fourie

CONSULTING MANAGER Africa
  • 25+ Years of Mining Consulting Experience: Specializes in Open pit mining
  • Methods: Truck and Shovel, Dozer operation, Mine rehabilitation.
  • Commodity Experience: Coal, Platinum, Gold, Lithium and Graphite.

Jaco Saunders

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, Narrow Vein, Conventional Breast Mining, Narrow Reef Mechanised Mining and Long Hole Stoping
  • Commodity Experience: Gold and Platinum

Freddie de Bruin

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 30 Years of Mining Experience: Specializes in Surface mining
  • Methods: Truck and Shovel, Dozer operation, Mine rehabilitation
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Coal, Rutile, Diatomaceous Earth

Benjamin Williams

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specialist in underground coal & metals mining, with exposure to surface coal and metals planning
  • Skills: Project management, enterprise data management, integrated planning models, financial modelling, process design and development, training systems.
  • Methods: large open stoping, narrow vein, room and pillar, longwall & place change, surface coal strip & terrace.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Coal

Cristián Anabalón

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • Almost 20 years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: All mining underground methods, Supported, unsupported and caving methods.
  • Commodity Experience: Precious metals, industrial metal, including Lead, Coal, Lithium, rare earths.
  • Country Experience: South America, Central America, Mexico and Canada.
  • Languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English

Jaco Enslin

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 15 Years of Mining Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Conventional, Mechanical, Bord and Pillar, Sub Level, Narrow Vein, Massives
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Platinum, Chrome, Diamond

Dalton Moncion

MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 6+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada (P.Eng)
  • Methods: Large open stoping, narrow vein
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Platinum, Palladium

Gabriel Toledo

MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, overhand cut and fill, sublevel open stoping and vertical retreat mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Iron ore

Zac Immonen

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Underhand cut and fill, long hole stoping, narrow vein, block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel

David Patzel

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Projects and Life of Asset
  • Methods: Open Cut
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Greg Stokes

Technical Sales Consultant North America
  • 12+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: open pit and underground mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, cut and fill, longhole stoping, narrow vein, caving, longwall, truck and shovel, evaporative
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Nickel, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lithium, Salt, Manganese, Potash, Soda Ash, Uranium, Cobalt

Amanda Alves

TRAINEE South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Major experience in underground mining.
  • Methods: Cut and fill, Sublevel Stoping.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper

Rike van Zyl

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Data Management, Underground and Open Pit Mining and Mineral Sands.
  • Methods: Dredging, Narrow Tabular, Open Pit Truck and Shovel
  • Commodity Experience: Chrome, Zinc, Copper, Coal, Iron Ore, Platinum, Gold

Borja Arias Gutierrez

CONSULTING MANAGER Europe
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining.
  • Methods: Long Hole Open Stoping, Cut and Fill, Room and pillar, Long Wall Mining.
  • Commodity Experience: Base and precious metals, coal and potash.
  • Education: Meng Mining Engineering, MEng. in Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering & MBA Executive.
  • Professional Licenses: CEng., MBA, MIMMM, PMP®
  • Country Experience: Canada, Colombia, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Kazakhstan, Ireland, Morocco, Germany, Norway, Spain & UK
  • Languages: Spanish and English

Sarah Cassidy

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in hard rock undergound mining
  • Methods: Large open stoping, narrow vein, SLC and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Base Metals, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Nickel, Coal, Iron Ore, Quarry Material

André Freitas

Team Leader South America
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit Mining.
  • Methods: Open Pit – Short, Mid & Long-Term Planning.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Iron Ore, Copper and Vanadium
  • Languages: Portuguese and English

Reed Tolotti

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT AND TEAM LEAD North America
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Copper, Coal, Phosphates, Lithium, Oil Sands

William Carpio

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 14+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Copper

Damien Wright

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 7+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit Coal mining
  • Methods: Strip Mining | Terrace Mining, Pit Optimization, Short, Mid & long-term planning
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Kristie Peloquin P.Eng

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 10+ Years of Mine Engineering & Operations Experience: Specializes in underground
  • Methods: Longhole open stoping, narrow vein, cut and fill
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Nickel, Platinum-group, Potash

Maria Fernandes

TRAINEE South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Underground mining and drill and blast
  • Methods: Room and pillar, sublevel stoping
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Manganese, Iron

Rhys Zippel

MINING CONSULTANT - SUPPORT APAC
  • 7+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining, drill and blast, MDM and technical solutions
  • Methods: large open stoping, remnant mining and SLC
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc and Silver

Sofia Oliveira

SENIOR CONSULTANT South America
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Major experience in underground mining
  • Methods: Cut and fill and Sub-Level stoping
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Nickel
  • Languages: Portuguese and English

Lucas de Paula

TRAINEE South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Open pit mining.
  • Methods: Open Pit Short, Mid and Long-Term Planning.
  • Commodity Experience: Iron Ore, Gold, Copper.

Lucas Matias

MINING CONSULTANT – SUPPORT APAC
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Open pit mining and mineral processing. Specializes in customer support and training delivery of suite products.
  • Methods: Open pit metals and open-cut coal
  • Commodity Experience: Iron, gold, coal

Rafaela Almeida

MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 4+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit Mining.
  • Methods: Open Pit – Short, Mid & Long-Term Planning.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Iron Ore, Copper and Nickel.
  • Languages: Portuguese and English

Kevin Braund

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 30+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specialising in Surface Mining – Coal and Metals
  • Methods: Strip | Open Pit | Terrace Mining, Pit Optimization, Mid & Long-Term Planning
  • Commodity Experience: Coal, Gold, Silver, Copper, Phosphate

Yu Nakagawa

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Surface mining
  • Methods: Strip Mining – Dragline, Truck & Shovel; Terrace Mining
  • Skills: Mine Planning, Design & Scheduling – Short, Medium & Long Term; Mine Closure Planning; Business Plan Development
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Ben Richardson

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 15+ Years of Mining Experience: Specializes in underground and open cut coal mining.
  • Methods: Bord and pillar, longwall, open cut strip/terrace mining. Pit optimization | Long, medium, and short term design and scheduling | Haulage modelling | Surveying
  • Commodity Experience: Coal (metallurgical & thermal)

James Walton

MINING CONSULTANT - SURVEY APAC
  • 15+ Years of Mining and Tunnelling Experience: Specializes in Underground Surveying
  • Methods: Underground Hard Rock Mining, Roadheader and Drill and Blast Tunnelling
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Uranium

Irene Medina

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 14+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining operations.
  • Methods: Short, medium and long-term planning | Open Pit metals | Multi-seam open pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Coal, Gold, Silver, Nickel

Ben Gardiner

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT - SUPPORT APAC
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializing in underground mining, and the building of schedule models / mine planning systems.
  • Methods: Open stoping, bord and pillar, narrow vein, remnant mining.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Platinum, Iron Ore

Francisco Miranda

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 12+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining and Enterprise Data Management.
  • Methods: Cut and fill, open stoping, narrow vein and Room and Pillar.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper.

Jared Olmos

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Cut and fill, long hole stoping, narrow vein and Room and Pillar.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Fluorite

Bruna Rozendo

TECHNICAL SALES UNDERGROUND South America
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Major experience in underground mining
  • Methods: Sublevel Stoping, Vertical Retreat Mining, Cut and Fill, Vertical Retreat Mine, Room and pillar.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper

Nigel Forsyth

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in surface mining
  • Methods: Open Pit Metals
  • Skills: Optimisation, Design & Sheduling – Short, Medium & Long Term, Mine Rehabilitation and Closure
  • Commodity Experience: Iron Ore, Gold, Lithium, Copper

Ana Moreira

SENIOR CONSULTANT South America
  • 5+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Major experience in underground mining.
  • Methods: Cut and fill, sublevel stoping
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper.
  • Languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Tom Giffney

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 10+ Years of Mining Geology and Engineering Experience: Skilled in underground mining, specializing in geology, geotech, mine design and data management.
  • Methods: Large- and small-scale open stoping, SLC and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Base Metals, Lithium, Iron Ore

Maria Fernanda Marín

TRAINEE MINING ENGINEER – CONSULTING South America
  • 1+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Open Pit Mining, Training and Support.
  • Commodity Experience: Coal.

Patrick Braden

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT AND TEAM LEAD North America
  • 8+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Under/overhand cut and fill, Longhole stoping, Room and pillar, Narrow vein
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Nickel, Copper, Salt

Josh Duforest

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Europe
  • 6+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Large Open Stoping, Sublevel Stoping and Narrow Vein
  • Commodity Experience: Aggregates, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Zink
  • Country Experience: Finland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Zambia
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Dan Cassidy

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT AND TEAM LEAD APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, underhand cut and fill, large open stoping, narrow vein, SLC and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Coal, Gypsum, Antimony, Diatomaceous Earth
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Andre Stengl

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT & PRACTICE LEAD APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in Surface mining – Metal and Coal.
  • Methods: Strip | Open Pit | Terrace Mining, Pit Optimization, Short, Mid & long-term planning
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Coal, Diamond, Phosphate, Oil Sands

Italo Koyama

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 15 Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Strategic mine planning
  • Skills: Value optimization, Due diligence, Risk analysis, Mineral Reserves Audits
  • Commodity Experience: Iron ore, Gold, Copper, Polymetallic, Nickel, Lithium, Coal, Phosphate and Bauxite

Augusto Paula

Trainee South America
  • 7+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Underground mining.
  • Methods: Sublevel Stoping.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold.
  • Languages: Portuguese.

Jeremy Fox

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 11+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound & open cut mining
  • Methods: Room and pillar, large open stoping, narrow vein, Block caving, strip & terrace mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Coal, PGE

Anthony Walker

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT (MINING & CIVIL) APAC
  • 20+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in surface mining and civil earthworks
  • Methods: Strip Mining, Terrace Mining, Cut to Fill Bulk Earthworks
  • Skills: Mine Planning, Design & Scheduling; Mine Closure Planning; Earthworks Planning – BIM, Mass Haulage, Construction Scheduling
  • Commodity Experience: Coal

Michael Pritchard

MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 10+ Years of Mine Surveying & Engineering Experience: Specializing in data management solutions for mining operations.
  • Methods: Large and small scale open stoping, SLC and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Cobalt

Mulalo Matshusa

MINING CONSULTANT Africa
  • 8+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining hard rock
  • Methods: Room and pillar, Narrow Reef mining and conventional mining
  • Commodity Experience: Platinum

Filipe Rodrigues

JUNIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 3+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining
  • Methods: Open Pit – Short, Mid & Long-Term Planning
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron Ore, Vanadium

Ali Arbi M.Eng.

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT North America
  • 13+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in underground mining
  • Methods: LHOS, Room and pillar, Cut and fill, Narrow vein and Sub Level Caving.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Uranium, Potash

Vijay Subramanian

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT (ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS) APAC
  • 25+ Years of Mining Technology Experience: Specializes in enterprise implementations and integrations
  • Methods: Underground and open cut
  • Commodity Experience: Coal, Copper, Gold, Silver

Alex Greenhalgh

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializing in underground mining and Data Management
  • Methods: Stoping, narrow vein and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten and Coal

Alexander Owen

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 15+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in surface mining
  • Methods: Open pit metals, narrow vein, strip & terrace, push-back design and sequencing
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Lithium, Iron

Wei Liang

Technical lead – Underground Mining North America
  • 18+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining
  • Methods: Cut and fill, open stoping, narrow vein, and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Nickel, Copper, Platinum-group, Potash

Mariaan Loots

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 8+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in surface mining
  • Methods: Open pit metals, Terrace mining
  • Skills: Optimisation, Mine Planning, Design & Sheduling – Short, Medium & Long Term
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Coal, Iron Ore, Nickel

Gustavo Castro

MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Copper, Iron Ore, Niobium, Magnesite

Andrey Cherepanov

Territory Manager Europe
  • 20+ Years of Mining and Geology Experience: Specializes in Exploration, UG mining and Mine Management.
  • UG Methods: Sublevel Caving.
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Manganese.
  • Country Experience: Russia, Northern Africa, Australia and the UK.
  • Languages: Russian and English

Damien Hersant

PRINCIPAL MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 30+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializing in operational and technical elements of underground mining
  • Methods: Large and small scale open stoping, benching, SLC and block caving
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Uranium, Diamonds, PGMs

Marta Diaz Losas

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT Europe
  • 6+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in undergound mining. Experienced in drill & blast projects, geotechnical and operational roles.
  • Methods: Room and pillar (R&P), long hole open stopes (LHOS)
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
  • Education: Meng Mining Engineering (Spain) , MSc Mining Engineering & geotechnical risks (France) & Meng Engineering Management (Ireland).
  • Professional Licenses: Shiftboss license, Blasting License for Underground Mining, Member of IOM3 (MIMMM)
  • Country Experience: Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal, Spain & UK
  • Languages: Spanish, English and French

Caroline Zorzi

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT South America
  • 12+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit and underground and mining
  • Methods: Sublevel Stoping, Narrow Vein, Open Pit
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc
  • Languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English

Michael Neale

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 10+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in mineral sands and abnormal applications of Deswik like tailings dams, electrical cable networks, civil earthworks.
  • Methods: Dredging, dozer trap mining, hydraulic mining, truck and shovel, strip mining
  • Commodity Experience: Mineral sands, Platinum, Iron Ore, Coal

Ray Wedmaier

SENIOR MINING CONSULTANT APAC
  • 40+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in shallow open pit metal deposits
  • Methods: Underground: Open and bench stoping, SLC. Open Pit: Coal strip mining, shallow open pit metals
  • Commodity Experience: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Coal, Bauxite, Quarries

Luiz Felipe Faria

Trainee South America
  • 2+ Years of Mining Engineering Experience: Specializes in open pit mining
  • Methods: Open Pit – Short, Mid & Long-Term Planning. Bench and Strip mining.
  • Commodity Experience: Copper, Gold, Iron, limestone, lithium.
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