Principal Associate
MinEx Associates
Total years of experience :46 years, 4 Months
2002 - Present MinEx Associates (& ExMin Mozambique), Principal Associate. See below detail.
2006 - 2007 WARDROP ENGINEERING (Tetratech Group), Manager & Initiator, UK Operations.
2005 - 2006 Operations Director, Subterana International Resources Ltd., Nigeria.
2004 - 2005 Chief Metallurgist & Geological Coordinator, Montana Exporadora, Glamis, Project Management, Guatemala. Due diligence on an exploration project in Guatemala.
2003 - 2004 Due Diligence, Operations Management, and Independent Consultant, Kampe Valley Mining, Nigeria.
2002 - 2004 Turnkey Project Management, Operations Director, Dutchbalt Ltd., Nigeria.
2002 - 2003 Productivity/Environmental & Systems Consultant, Independent Process Consultant, Sevalco, Colombian Chemicals Ltd., Phelps Dodge, UK.
2000 - 2002 Process Manager, design, project work, fabrication, commissioning & re-commissioning, Oryx Natural Resources, DRC.
2000 Independent Consultant (mining, process and sampling), W S Atkins (now Atkins), UK, Guinea.
2000 Independent Consultant, CSMA Associates (now Wardell Armstrong), UK, Kazakhstan, operations and process assessment and redesign for Central Asian Goldfields.
1996 - 2000 Independent Consultant, AMCAN Mining, Rex Mining and other clients, Sierra Leone, Alluvial projects.
1996 - 1998 Independent Process Consultant, Archangel Diamond Corporation, Russia.
1994 - 1996 Regional Health & Safety Manager, ARC (now Hansen Group), UK.
1992 - 1994 Director & Project Manager, Rise Management Consultancy, Swaziland.
1987 - 1992 Plant Superintendent - Project Manager, Dvokolwako, Trans Hex Group, Swaziland. Involved as process consultant on all T-Hex other projects
1986 - 1987 Project Manager & Group Loss Control Co-ordinator, The Buffalo Corporation, South Africa & Swaziland.
1985 - 1986 Assistant Plant Superintendent, Havelock Asbestos Mine, Swaziland, T&N, later Gencor.
1978 - 1985 Graduate trainee to acting Plant Superintendent, Anglo American Corporation, & AMCOAL, South Africa, & De Beers Botswana Mining Company.
City & Guilds AutoCAD lll Piquette Training, Plymouth, UK, 1999
National Diploma, Risk Assessment, Safety (and Loss Control) Management (NADSAM), Technikon Johannesburg, S Africa, 1989 (Equivalent to HND)
BSc. (Hons.) Minerals Exploitation (Major, Mineral Processing), University College Cardiff, UK, 1979