MINING ONE AUSTRALIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Adrian is a Senior Mining Engineer with extensive underground technical experience along with contractor, management and corporate exposure gained over 20 years in the mining industry. He is able to offer effective management of small to medium workforce through supportive and productive supervision of staff utilising his strong communication and interpersonal skills. Adrian has superior organisational and planning ability, having implemented many Life of Mine plans, production schedules and financial models.
Job Titles:
- GM Indonesia / Principal Geologist
Adrian is a Geologist with over 19 years of experience in project generation, project management, business development, exploration (field mapping and drilling supervision), resource development and mining of coal, industrial minerals in Indonesia and abroad. A competent person for JORC (Joint Ore Reserves Committee) coal resource reporting. He is an expert user and trainer in Minescape coal software.
Job Titles:
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
- Senior Mining Geotechnical Engineer
Andrew is a Senior Mining Geotechnical Engineer who has over six years of experience in the mining industry. His operational experience encompasses various geotechnical engineering roles. These include Dugald River Underground Mine, Century Open Cut Mine, Costerfield Underground Mine, and Savage River Open Cut Mine. He has also been involved in numerous mine design studies, including at a pre-feasibility and feasibility level. His mining experience includes the monitoring and co-management of significant pit wall failures, data collection for various operational mine life stages, and geotechnical requirements for production and mine development. He was also a part of the Dugald River Trial Stoping Program and the Institute of Mine Seismology (IMS) open pit seismology program.
Andrew's underground experience stems from the participation in the successful sub-level open stoping (SLOS) from the Dugald River Underground Mine Trial Stoping Program, working with numerous industry and technical leaders. This includes geotechnical data collection for hanging wall stability assessments, installation and interpretation of geotechnical instrumentation, geotechnical implications in drill and blast practices, numerical modelling using MAP3D, ground support design and QAQC of ground support installation. He has established and implemented geotechnical systems and worked with mining contractors to improve and maintain safe operational practices.
With Mining One, Andrew has been involved in pre-feasibility and feasibility studies in both open cut and underground operations in various resources including iron ore, copper, magnetite, zinc and gold. He has continued his operational experience undertaking a series of both underground and open cut operational roles, providing operational leadership and managing stakeholders.
Over the last 10 years Anthony has specialised in scientific analysis and interpretation of complex geological data, including surface and downhole structural, geochemical and geophysical data, in order to develop robust, resource ready, implicit 3D models for the purposes of asset acquisition, longevity and iterative geoscientific studies to expand orebody knowledge.
Berry is a Senior Hydrology and Hydrogeology Engineer with over 10 years of experience working on various mine projects across Indonesia. He provides expert assessments on soil and water quality combined with effective evaluations, models and management plans. Previously an operational director for a coal mine, Berry carried the project management experience into other projects such as the Sitanduk Hydro Power Plant. He has demonstrated his expert knowledge through training others in short courses covering material related to hydrology and hydrogeology.
Job Titles:
- Principal Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Cameron is a Principal Mining Engineer who has a diverse background in mining. With over 20 years as a mining professional, Cameron has become an effective leader in both operational and technical roles across a broad sprectrum of commodities including Copper, Iron Ore, Gold, Diamonds and Coal where he has learnt to understand the fundamental value drivers for the respective commodity. Cameron holds an engineering degree as well as a MBA in finance which is supported by experiences ranging from Mining engineer to front line management including his legislatively appointed role as the site SSE. His skills and experience provide the ability to be an effective workforce leader as well as the ability to develop, implement and effect site safety management systems to establish a productive safety culture.
Cameron's strong operational background along with his time as a Fleet Performance Superintendent where he oversaw a fleet exceeding 80 trucks and 10 dig units provides a strong foundation in understanding the relationship between people, equipment and systems and how to maximise equipment performance. These skills have underpinned Cameron's ability to carry out numerous fleet studies and then manage them through the execution phase. With demonstrated effectiveness in areas of; Operational readiness planning, due diligence, capability assessments, JORC and NI 43-101 reports across a number of commodities, organisational design, equipment selection and fleet studies, ICAM and root cause safety investigations, business improvement and mine optimisation.
Cameron's Project Management skills, years of experience and the face combined with his financial acumen have enabled Cameron to facilitate many projects from financial feasibility through to implementation. Cameron is a chartered professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM (CP)).
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Cameron is a Mining Engineer with over 15 years' experience in site based, technical services and consulting roles. He has developed a deep and broad knowledge across all areas of mining operations, is results focused and strives to understand the fundamental operational value drivers. He has had extensive exposure to open pit mining across a range of commodities including copper, gold, diamonds, zinc and rare earth minerals. Drawing on both technical site based and consulting roles in mining engineering and overseas management, he has developed excellent interpersonal communication skills allowing for outstanding relationship management and robust problem-solving and analytical abilities. Cameron has been involved in all aspects of project work including Proof of Concept, Scoping, Prefeasibility and Feasibility work.
Job Titles:
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Charlie is a senior geotechnical engineer with more than 10 years of mining experience and has site based operational and design experience in both open pit and underground operations. He has worked at several different operations across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania ranging from large open pits to smaller strip-mining operations and sub-level open stoping mining methods.
Charlie has worked in consulting since the beginning of 2013 and has worked on numerous studies in Australia and overseas across gold, iron ore, copper and various other commodities. He has produced studies from PFS through to detailed design for major mining companies and has conducted preliminary investigations and due diligence assessments for smaller companies, including site audits.
Charlie has been invited previously to present at ACG conferences on geotechnical design methodologies and is currently undertaking a Masters degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Western Australia.
Job Titles:
- Principal Mining Consultant / Melbourne, Australia
Craig is a results-orientated and highly experienced professional with a track record of delivering robust value adding strategies to the mining industry. He is focused on providing effective and sustainable solutions to mine projects and operations through strategy optimization and Mineral Resource/Ore Reserve optimization. Craig's expertise involves identifying opportunities for improvement at mining operations through benchmarking and operational reviews leading to improved efficiencies at underground operations. He also has expertise in underground Mass mining technical and operating environments, as well as balanced experience between operational and consultancy roles which allows a broad overview of the mining industry.
David has over 40 years mining and exploration geology experience post-graduation for a variety of commodities including coal, base and precious metal, alluvials. He has worked Australia-wide and overseas, including PNG, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Germany. Roles include: relief quarry/mine manager, dimension stone (black granite, Derby- WA), Sundance Mine (Au, Bachelor- NT), Amphitheatre Mine (Au, Paraburdoo- WA) as well as being a mentor to national geologists. David has gained experienced in drilling campaigns (RC, diamond), open-cut production, including grade control. He also has experience in MapInfo, Surpac and Vulcan software.
Job Titles:
- Mining Geotechnical Specialist
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer
David Lucas is a mining geotechnical specialist with over 30 years of experience in mining and civil geotechnical engineering, of which 24 years have been in mining in Australia and South-East Asia. He is a specialist in slope stability in open-cut mining, with considerable experience in rock and soil slopes, overburden dumps and stockpiles, in a wide range of hard rock mines, coal mines and quarries. With a first degree in geology, he is skilled at understanding and interpreting geological processes and settings in terms of their engineering impact.
His on-site mining experience includes 12 years in site-based operational roles where he provided practical advice on slope stability, geotechnical hazard management, and failure remediation. His consulting experience since 2005 has included design applications for all stages of mining from scoping and feasibility studies, operational mines, and mine closure studies, risk based stability assessments, and communicating technical concepts to key stakeholders including regulatory authorities and the public. He also specialises in high level geotechnical reviews of mining operations.
David is a registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ), and is a chartered professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM (CP)).
Job Titles:
- GM China / Global Contracts Officer / Melbourne, Australia
Davron has over eight years of experience in contract laws, due diligence, project management, and geotechnical engineering. Working on a variety of projects both on site and office based, her experience includes technical due diligence, project permitting review, environmental legislations, technical translation, project management and delivery, and client liaison. She has been involved in many technical due diligence and has conducted various reviews on mining and environmental permits for projects in Australia, Canada, Chile, Philippines, etc. She has also conducted geotechnical training for our clients in China to improve their mine safety and economics. Further, Davron is a qualified Australian Lawyer, admitted as an officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She has been involved in several high-profile transactions with matters involving research and development tax claim, mergers and acquisitions, construction laws, etc.
Job Titles:
- Director / Manager Mining / Melbourne, Australia
Dean Basile has over 24 years of experience in the mining industry and over 16 years of experience at a management level and is a Director and Board Member of Mining One. His career began at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines in Western Australia and he has worked at senior and mine management levels in Ghana and Peru, mainly covering surface mining techniques as well as extensive experience in long-term and strategic planning of gold and copper mines. Dean has conducted work on and managed various feasibility studies; as well as the implementation of mining fleets at two green field operations. Dean has an intermediate level of written and spoken Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Geotechnical Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
- Mining Geotechnical Engineer
Didy is a Mining Geotechnical Engineer who has over nine years of experience in the mining industry. She started her career as a Geologist and her operational experience encompasses various roles in the Hunter Valley and Bowen Basin namely Integra Underground and Open Cut Coal Mine, Blackwater Mine, Peak Downs Mine, Goonyella Riverside Mine and more recently Savage River Open Cut Mine. Having a strong geology professional background, Didy has a proven record for delivering measurable results and fostering strong stakeholder relationships. She has more than 8 years experience in the mining industry based on mine sites, which includes exploration (greenfields and brownfields), production (open pit and underground) and technical roles.
Didy possesses extensive experience in geological modelling, resource reconciliation, geotechnical highwall and overburden mapping, geological structural interpretation and exploration, which is supported by substantial stakeholder engagement; of which has generated significant culture and business performance improvements on site.
She has a strong professional research background with a degree in Geology from University of Queensland and a Masters in Mining Engineering (Mine Geomechanics) from UNSW. She was also selected by Vale Australia to represent Australia in completing Advanced in Mining Short Courses at University of Ouro Preto, Brazil.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Process Engineer
Kevin is a highly experienced engineer with 20+ years in technical projects, studies, process and operations improvement. He has extensive experience in process and technology innovation, solving complex problems at operating sites and implementation of innovative processes, flow sheets and technologies across multiple commodities for hydrometallurgy and minerals processing.
He also possesses a proven track record leading studies in mining and process upgrades; through identification of opportunities, flowsheet development, process modelling, bench and pilot scale testwork and scenario analysis. He is highly skilled in hypothesis development, technical data analysis, modelling and stakeholder engagement to deliver projects and improvements.
Kevin has a strong interest in data analytics and and its application to recovery modelling for MROR, as well as understanding and improving plant performance and operating costs.
Job Titles:
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Yousef is a ground control and rock mechanics specialist with substantial professional and academic experience in analysis and interpretation of mining induced seismicity. Yousef holds a PhD in mining induced seismicity from Queen's University and a master's from Laurentian University, Canada. Yousef joined Mining One as a senior geotechnical specialist in 2021. In his previous jobs, he was involved in various aspects of ground control engineering, seismicity and rock mechanics and worked with seismic data from some of the deepest hard rock underground mines in the world. His projects have included seismic array design, system optimization, seismic source parameter and hazard analyses and re-entry protocols. Yousef is the founder of TVSeminars Inc., which is a platform for delivering online mining/geotechnical seminars.
Job Titles:
- Geotechnical Engineer
- Mining Geotechnical Engineer With a
Zahra is a Mining Geotechnical Engineer with a PhD in geology from the University of Western Australia. She has work experience in the energy and mining industries as well as teaching and researching at university institutions. Her skills in the oil and gas industry include geological modelling, seismic interpretation, seismic stratigraphy and numerical stratigraphic modelling. Her experience in mine geotechnical engineering includes analysis and design support for open pit mining studies. Key expertise in analysis covers data gathering and analysis of drilling data, laboratory test results and geomechanical characterisation of rock masses to derive material parameters for design. Zahra has working knowledge of geotechnical design software packages, which she uses to complete slope stability analysis using limit equilibrium, kinematic analysis and 2D numerical modelling methods.
Job Titles:
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer ( Cavroc Co - Founder ) Melbourne, Australia
Abouzar is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer and numerical modelling specialist with over 15 years of experience in operations, geotechnical analysis, design and research. His expertise is primarily in applying advanced analytical techniques for geotechnical engineering and design. He has worked on studies involving large open pits and deep, high stress underground mines. He has authored more than 25 technical papers and articles and he is an AusIMM Chartered Professional and Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland.
Job Titles:
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Aidan is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with ten years of operational and consulting experience. Aidan has a broad range of practical and technical skills, ranging from site-based coverage and support (Ballaratt gold mine, Cracow, Cadia Valley Operations, Cannington, George Fisher and Hera), through to detailed geotechnical designs using advanced numerical and statistical methods for both open pit and underground mining methods. Aidan holds university qualifications in Mining Engineering from UNSW, Mathematics from Charles Sturt University, and has recently completed a PhD in Civil Engineering through the University of Queensland. Aidan's PhD thesis focused primarily on probabilistic, multi-scale methods for quantifying the stability of open pits.
Job Titles:
- Principal Coal Geologist / Melbourne, Australia
A highly experienced Mining Geologist with over 45 years of experience, Rob provided a wide range of geological services to SECV mining and resource development operations in the Latrobe Valley (4 open cut operations) between 1973 and 1994. Between 1981 and 1992 he led a team of earth scientists and technical specialists while managing SECV drilling activities and a number of emergent large scale projects and investigations. He was also routinely involved with open pit drainage, dewatering and stability issues. In addition, Rob oversaw the introduction of computer based geological and geophysical data acquisition and the development of digital geological and coal resource models and was responsible for maintenance of the SECV bore data base.
He completed an MSc (Hons) degree in Coal Geology at the University of Wollongong between 1983 and 1985. Between 1972 and 1988 he conducted over 70 internal training sessions on coal geology, pit stability and coal chemistry and lectured part time in earth sciences at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (later Monash University Gippsland) between 1975 and 1987. Rob has also developed and presented a series of sessional lectures on low rank coals for Latrobe University and the University of Wollongong. He currently lectures in Engineering Geology for MSc students at Federation University Gippsland and takes practical geology sessions for Environmental Science students.
Job Titles:
- Geotechnical Engineer / Numerical Modelling Specialist
Rupesh is a result oriented Geotechnical Engineer with the ability to be a valuable asset in the Mining/Geotechnical Engineering services. He has excellent research aptitude with numerical modelling, data interpretation, documentation and report/proposal writing skills.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Engineer
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Dr. Tom Styles is a chartered engineer with fourteen years of post graduate experience. He completed a PhD on numerical modelling of fractured rock slopes through the Camborne School of Mines, and further post-doctoral research at universities in Vancouver, Canada. This applied academic background, in combination with a number of consulting roles, provides a strong foundation in advanced numerical modelling, characterising and monitoring the rock mass, and general geotechnical support for open pit and underground mines, quarries, and green field sites. His work as a consultant focuses on rock mechanics, with experience in terrestrial LiDAR and drone-based photogrammetry, as well as both satellite radar data, offering solutions for both data collection and high resolution remote monitoring. Tom has worked on mine sites throughout Eurasia, Africa and Australia and North America, directing geotechnical site investigations and collecting data. His office-based analytical analyses and numerical modelling of ground stability, provides mine design parameters during feasibility and mine optimisation studies. Tom is also the agent for Cavroc in Europe and Africa
Edward has a qualified Geologist and has just completed his Masters in Mining Engineering Degree. His education has included subjects such as Excavation and Geomachanics; Project Management; Mine Design and Planning; Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.
His problem solving, teamwork, analysis, critical thinking and organisation are of a high standard. He is also a former Speaker Secretary for the Herdman Geological Society at the University of Liverpool (UK).
Job Titles:
- Managing Director / Principal Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Gary Davison has over 40 years of experience in the Australian Mining Industry. His career began at Renison, Tasmania, in 1978 and has worked at senior mine management levels in Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales covering underground and surface mining techniques. As well as a practical, hands-on approach, Gary has worked for a variety of clients including lawyers on expert witness cases, merchant banks conducting a high number of due diligence examinations and many other feasibility studies. He has extensive experience in Australian and overseas. He has worked on mines and mining prospects and underground mines within the production range of 50,000 - 10,000,000 tonnes per annum.
Gary is highly innovative in many areas having developed unique mine designs and infrastructure for difficult mines and he has a particular passion for ground support and improving the safety and efficiency of underground mining. Gary has successfully patented a variety of rock bolts, many of which are commercially available selling over 1.5 million units, worldwide. He has a number of other patents pending. Gary has written and presented a variety of papers on mining topics. He has visited mine sites and conducted work in Indonesia, Canada, Finland, UK, Sweden, Ghana, Central and South America, and China, as well all states and territories in Australia.
Gary is one of the founders and Managing Director of Mining One Pty Ltd in Melbourne, Australia and his private Rock Bolt Technology firm, Gazmick Pty Ltd. He was a Non-Executive Director at Unity Mining Limited joining them in 2013 and has previously held Non Executive Directorships for Kasbah Resources Ltd and Lightning Nickel Pty Ltd., the nickel operating arm of Independence Group NL. Gary is also the Managing Director of the Mining Motor Company Pty Ltd which is developing variable speed electric motors for mining operations.
Job Titles:
- Geotechnical Manager WA / Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Iain is an experienced Geotechnical Engineer with almost thirty years of experience in civil, open pit and underground geotechnical engineering in west Africa, south east Asia, and Australia. Working in operational mining setting (open pit and underground), consultancy, and leadership roles within the mining environment.
Key skills set include engineering geology, hydrogeology, geomorphology, open pit and underground geotechnical engineering, and risk identification and management including the communication of technical concepts to key stakeholders. Iain has experience in assurance and governance with relation to mine geotechnical engineering allowing senior leadership oversight of the technical risk.
Job Titles:
- Technical Services Manager / Melbourne, Australia
Ian has over 45 years of experience in the mining and civil industries. His mining experience covers both open pit and underground metalliferous and coal mines across Australia and overseas. Ian offers a range of geotechnical skills including onsite geotechnical support, instrumentation design and installation, in-situ testing, stress measurements, cable and roof bolt load monitoring and cable and roof bolt pull out testing programs. He has carried out these tasks at Australian mines such as Sino's Iron Cape Preston Mine, WMC Mount Keith Mine, Kidston Gold Mine, Telfer Gold Mine, Endeavor Mine, Ballarat Mine, Cadia Mine, NorthParkes Mine; as well as overseas mines like Chatree Gold Mine, Thailand, Aguas Tenidas Mine, Spain and Porgera Mine, Papua New Guinea. Ian has used his open pit expertise to conduct geotechnical reviews, site geotechnical support and slope stability analysis for long term pit designs at mines such as Mount Keith Nickel, Woodlawn, Anglesea and Yallourn. He also covers the supervision and inspection of major works including river diversions, mine closure rehabilitation, conveyor realignment remedial works for large-scale slope instability and remediation supervision for insurers, for example, Hazelwood mine, Victoria.
His work has mainly involved the practical on-site implementation or supervision of work from initial drilling to mine site closure (e.g. Ranger uranium Mine, NT). He was one of the key instigators of the introduction of slope stability radar monitoring to the open pit mining industry, particularly with the initial implementation of this radar monitoring at the Mt Keith Nickel mine in WA, where both small and large scale pit slope instability was monitored and managed.
His civil experience includes ground support work on the CityLink and EastLink tunnels in Melbourne, along with stress measurements for the various railway tunnel alignments in Sydney and Melbourne and the Waterview tunnel in Auckland in New Zealand.
Job Titles:
- Principal Mining Engineer ( Australia / Indonesia ) / SE Asia Regional Manager / Jakarta, Indonesia
Ievan has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry. He has undertaken a wide variety of roles within various technical teams including short/medium/long term planning engineering roles and production engineering roles. Ievan also has extensive experience on a variety of projects and has been involved in the various study phases from concept study to feasibility study to project implementation for various commodities such as coal, gold, silver, copper, iron ore, tin, limestone, phosphate and rare earth minerals in various countries.
Ievan has a sound understanding of computerised 3D design work, dragline and truck shovel operation, mine scheduling, budgeting, pit optimisation and cost modelling. Ievan is well versed in various mining software packages, including Minex, Minescape, Surpac, Whittle, Vulcan, XPAC, 3D Dig and Talpac. Ievan is a Chartered Professional (Mining) and Member of AusiMM as well as Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).
Joseph is a Principal Mining Engineer (open pit) with technical and operational expertise working in middle and senior level roles in multinational mining organisations. Joseph's 18 years of experience in the mining industry commenced with acquiring skills in operation of heavy mine equipment including trucks, drills and loaders. During this time, he gained firsthand practical field knowledge in mining. He gained further operational experience in his role as a leading hand and then as a crew supervisor. Joseph has also held key operational management roles in the capacity of a Mining Operations Superintendent and then as a Mining Manager in NSW, Australia, during which time he acquired the NSW Quarry Manager's Certificate of Competency. Joseph's operational expertise include fleet management, business improvement, mine optimization, contract administration, ICAM and TapRoot incident root cause investigation and analysis, explosives management and management of Tailings Storage Facilities. Joseph is also experienced in heavy equipment asset management.
Joseph's engineering expertise include drill and blast designing, mine design and planning ranging from shorter term planning to Strategic/Life of Mine Planning, mine scheduling, pit optimization, mine financial modelling/costing and enterprise optimisation, having served in various technical roles throughout his career including Chief Mining Engineer and Integrated Planning Manager. Joseph is an efficient user of various mine packages including Surpac, Talpac, XPac, Xeras, MineSched, Whittle, ArcGIS, Modular Mining and MineStar. Joseph is also familiar with Vulcan and Alastri.
Joseph holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mining and is a member of both AusIMM and SME.
Job Titles:
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer / North American Manager
Julian is a global subject matter expert in mining and rock mechanics engineering (surface and underground), with extensive experience in mine design, decision-making, and senior corporate management. Julian holds a Bachelor of science with honours (structural geology) and a Masters of Mining Engineering Science in Geomechanics. He has over 20 years of extensive operational, consulting, and corporate experience and is a subject matter expert in mining rock mechanics (surface and underground). Julian has worked in multiple global regions (including Africa, Americas, Australasia, and Europe), and understands cross cultural sensitivities. He is a published professional and firm advocate of risk-based management systems within rock mechanics engineering and the wider mining industry. Julian is also North American agent for Cavroc Pty Ltd with which Mining One has a formal collaboration.
Job Titles:
- Director / Manager, Geotechnical / Melbourne, Australia
Kevin has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry throughout Australia and overseas, including eleven years at the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC). He has had extensive experience in the practical aspects of rock and soil mechanics covering major hydroelectric projects, pumped storage schemes, dams, tunnels and most of Australia's large mining projects, (e.g. Olympic Dam, Northparkes and Century Mine). This work has covered all states of Australian and over fourteen countries overseas.
His mine geotechnical experience covers the geotechnical input and peer review to major projects from conceptual to bankable studies and detailed design. He has also been retained as a peer review consultant on a wide range of projects, including numerous due diligence technical audits and expert witness roles of major civil and mining projects (both coal and metal). His areas of expertise include: Stress measurement analysis and mathematical modelling (2D & 3D); Rock Mechanics (ground support, stability analyses etc.); Reviews, due diligence and expert witness; and Engineering Geology (including data collection, rock mass classifications, etc.). Kevin is a Chartered Professional recognised through the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Louis is a Senior Project Geologist with 11 years of experience within the mining and exploration industry. Louis has worked for junior exploration companies in Canada and Australia, as well as a team of geoscience specialists at MMG Ltd. He has provided geological and implicit modelling expertise supporting operations worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Mining Engineer
- Principal Mining Engineer / General Manager Ghana
Louis Gyawu is a Mining Engineer with over 20 years' experience and has worked at senior and mine management levels for over 13 years in the mining industry in Africa covering legislature, greenfield project development and brownfield mine optimisation acquired through hands-on execution of many projects mainly in surface mining techniques.
Louis is a confident individual capable of understanding complex technical concepts both inside and outside his discipline. He demonstrates high technical and ethical standards in his work and demonstrate leadership. He is highly respected by his peers and demonstrates patience and persistence when training his personnel.
Louis is the General Manager of the Mining One's Ghana office.
Job Titles:
- Director / Global Business Development Manager / Melbourne, Australia
Lyn started her career in the mining industry over 38 years ago. She began work as a metallurgical clerk and laboratory assistant doing flotation test work for Aberfoyle Tin at Luina, Tasmania. Lyn progressed to working for Mine Managers as a confidential Secretary, assisting in administration and HR. After developing a strong administration background, she moved into project management working closely with clients and building client relationships. Finding this was her strength and with her knowledge of the mining industry she progressed into business development.
Lyn was a founding member of Mining One working on the business plan and cost analysis that helped start the successful business that it is today. She has successfully grown the Mining One brand both in Australia and overseas. Her strong business acumen has enabled her to secure project leads worldwide, hence obtaining a wide range of diversified projects in many countries for the Mining One business.
Job Titles:
- General Manager WA / Principal Mining Engineer / Perth, Australia
Marcus Jacobs has over 20 years' experience in operational mines, engineering studies and business consulting roles. He started his career in open cut gold and iron ore mines in Western Australia, and in his career has had exposure to a number of commodities including: gold, iron ore, limestone, copper, lithium and tantalum. He is a skilled project and study manager; providing leadership and coaching to achieve safety performance, schedule and budget targets. Marcus is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM) and holds a Western Australian Quarry Manager's Certificate of Competency.
Job Titles:
- General Manager SA / Principal Mining Engineer / Adelaide, Australia
Mark has over 36 years of experience as a mining engineer, specialising in hard rock mining. He has been involved at a senior level with numerous mining companies around Australia, and overseas. Mark was Principal Mining Engineer at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine prior to joining Mining One. Mark's expertise includes project reviews and due diligence of mining operations, supervision and feasibility study management, mine design, cost modelling, equipment selection and scheduling.
He is a Fellow and a Chartered Professional Mining Engineer of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He also holds a South Australian First Class Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency, with Mutual Recognition in Western Australia. Mark is a Qualified Person under the Canadian NI 43-101 system and can sign off on technical reports. He is also a Competent Person as defined within the JORC Code and can sign off on JORC compliant Ore Reserve estimates.
Matthew is a Senior Mining Engineer with a broad range of experience from Mine Ventilation, Drill and Blast, Mine Production, Mine Services as well as Innovation.
He has also been involved with Project Management and engineering problem solving with the mining environment. A period out of the Mining Industry assisting with setting up an offshore factory in the dairy industry has provided a sound business basis that can be applied to everyday mining issues, providing a broad consideration of cost versus benefits process.
Matthew is competent in various mine software packages including Deswik.
Job Titles:
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Michael has over 24 years geotechnical experience in underground and open-cut metalliferous and coal mines. The majority of this experience has been focused on consulting services to the mining industry, from geotechnical logging/data collection, secondment to sites for operational support assistance to mining studies from scoping to feasibility levels. Michael has considerable experience in numerical modelling and slope stability analyses, and has extensive operational and design/analysis experience in the geotechnical field.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Michelle has over 10 years of industry experience, with expertise in 3D mine design and planning. Michelle has assisted in completing numerous mining projects in Australia and China, as well as conducting Surpac training courses for various mining companies. After joining Mining One, she has been involved in a number of prefeasibility, feasibility studies and Life of Asset planning. She is a competent user of Surpac, MineSched, Whittle, Deswik, and Minemax Scheduler and a basic user of Minex and Datamine. Those tools give her flexibility in achieving high efficiency and enable her to find better solutions when conducting pit optimisation, mine design, mining and blending scheduling. She is also fluent in English and is a native Chinese speaker.
Mick has a wide range of expertise in geology and mining engineering since entering the mining industry. Over his 40 year career, Mick has completed a large number of due diligence studies, mining and geological audits, project management, operational improvement, mine budgeting, mine scheduling, underground and open-cut mine design, Ore Reserve and Mineral Resource estimation and reporting.
He has worked in Australian and overseas in gold, tin, tungsten, base metals, nickel, rare earths, magnetite, limestone and dolomite deposits.
His special skills include the business analysis of existing and proposed mining operations, Melbourne, Australia the interpretation of structurally complex geology and Mineral Resource estimation.
Job Titles:
- Principal Technical Advisor / Melbourne, Australia
Mike is a high experienced Mining Engineer with over 30 years of experience in hard rock underground and open pit mining. He has a wide range of experience in both operating and technical environments. He is able to provide team leadership and is focused on the basics of process and developing efficiencies of cost and production from that base. Mike pro-actively promotes a high level in safety management, based on risk assessment, leading by example and a personal approach. He has a high level of understanding of all aspects of mining including high grade narrow vein underground gold mining.
Ning is a licensed Professional Engineers in Ontario (PEO). She has extensive exposure to underground mining commodities in both base metals and precious metals by undertaking a wide variety of operational-based roles in survey, ventilation, stope design, drill and blast design. Ning is also involved with mine design and mine reserves and resources work.
Ning has developed a level of proficiency in various mine software including Deswik, Amine, Promine, and has exposure to other engineering software such as Datamine, EPS, MineRP, WaveView, Shotplus, Ventsim, Rocscience.
Job Titles:
- Principal Geotechnical Engineer / Technical Team Leader
Peter has more than 30 years of experience in the mineral resource and engineering sectors for a variety of organisations including research, consulting and engineering, and mining corporations. Throughout his career he has been responsible for planning and managing civil and mining project studies from initial site investigations, analysis, and design, through to operational risk assessments, due diligence, audits/reviews, and project closure.
Peter has experience in Australia, the Americas, and the Middle East, with projects ranging from conceptual studies through to feasibility and operations experience. He has specific experience in block and sublevel caving projects in both North and South America
Peter has dedicated a significant portion of his career in consulting, providing engineering solutions to international corporations, gaining a reputation for adding value and providing innovative solutions whilst maintaining projects within budget and schedule.
Peter also provided strategic guidance to the major mining houses, including developing corporate risk management systems. He also has significant research and innovation experience, responsible for proposals, securing industry funding and project management of research projects.
Peter has lectured in Rock Slope Engineer, Probability and Risk in Geomechanics and Open Stope Geomechanics, and has given a number of short courses to industrial practitioners on topics of rock mechanics as well as short courses on the mining industry to non-practitioners.
Peter is a qualified Engineer with over 20 years of experience across Australia and the Asia Pacific regions. Although he has recent experience in Water Treatment, the majority of his professional life has been in the Mining Industry, both hard-rock and coal, from the Life of Mine (LoM) planning, production engineering and Greenfield start-up of operations.
Peter has been heavily involved in bringing sustainability frameworks into the mining industry and has presented papers at AusIMM Conferences and has been a member of the AusIMM Sustainability Committee.
Peter is a Chartered Professional Geologist with over 35 years' experience spread across the mining, civil engineering and environmental sectors in the fields of mineral exploration, mining engineering, geotechnics and hydrogeology. The diversity of project experience gained throughout his career in Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and UK has allowed him to apply many of the branches of engineering geoscience in an integrated manner to present complete solutions to tasks whilst remaining specialised in key areas of expertise.
Following extensive periods in the mining industry in Africa and Australia, and in environmental regulation in the UK, Peter has been providing engineering and environmental consultancy services for the last 15 years supporting mining, major infrastructure, tunnelling, land development and water resource projects in Africa, Asia, UK, and the Australasia-Pacific region. A key area of expertise is in Technical (environmental and hydrogeology) Due Diligence in relation to acquisitions, ASX listing, and the application of mining standards codes for new mining operations.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mine Planning Engineer
Phelan has more than 8 years in the mining industry with expertise in pit optimisation, mine design and scheduling, cost estimation, and financial modelling. His operational experience includes all facets of Production Engineering with core competencies in drill & blast and short / medium term mine scheduling. Phelan is a well-rounded engineer having worked in a number of commodities including gold, silver, copper, tin and iron ore. His core competency has been in the area of Mine Planning and Evaluation Lead on feasibility and Life of Asset planning studies. Phelan is a competent user of MineSched, Surpac, Whittle, Deswik, Minemax Scheduler, Datamine and Vulcan. Phelan also has experience in implementation of solutions in multi-objective optimisation problems such as ore-blending.
Phelan's experience has spanned various geographical locations including open-pit, metalliferous operations in Australia, Laos and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Phelan graduated from the University of Melbourne where he completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Hons.) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Economics).elor of Commerce (Finance and Economics).
Rahadian is a Mining Engineer with experience in coal and mineral mining in Indonesia and Australia. He has worked as a Mine Supervisor, Drill Blast, Engineer and Mining Engineer.
Job Titles:
- Rock Engineer
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Raymond is a Rock Engineer with 11 years rock engineering and 8 years mining engineering experience. A total of 16 years' technical, practical and commercial experience gained within mining and consultancy environments. During this period, he has been exposed to shallow, intermediate and deep level mining covering narrow tabular hard rock and massive mining environments.
Sean is a Geologist who started his mining career working in Rio Tinto's research labs, giving him valuable insight into the mining industry. There he worked mainly in diamond and copper exploration using in-house developed analytical techniques. He left Rio Tinto to start a PhD, which he is currently pursuing while also working at Mining One.
Sean is passionate about making sure that any project he undertakes, be it on an academic or personal level, is completed to the utmost of his abilities. He has solid research, planning and organisational skills, and an analytical and practical approach to problem solving. Sean relishes the chance to meet new challenges, learn new skills and expand on those that he has already acquired. He respects other people's opinions and believes that brain storming and networking are valuable tools. Sean is self-motivated, hardworking, flexible, adaptable, honest and trustworthy, and makes a worthy contribution to any organisation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Seen has fifteen years of experience in the mining industry, with experience from greenfields pre production sites through to fully operational mining operations. Seen's multi disciplinary background in geology and geotechnical engineering allow for seamless communication within projects. Seen's core competencies include open pit medium to long term project investigations and evaluations, with particular expertise in pit optimisation, ground modelling and design. Seen also has strengths in medium to long term mine planning, and is proficient in various mining software packages, including Whittle, Datamine, Surpac, MineSched, Mine 24-D and Deswik. Seen has worked with a number of metalliferous commodities, including gold, copper and iron ore.
Job Titles:
- Civil / Geotechnical Engineer
- Geotechnical Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Selcuk is a Civil/Geotechnical Engineer with over thirteen years of worldwide experience. In his career, Selcuk has been involved in geotechnical design, data collection and analyses of various underground and open-pit mines. He has worked with reputable resource and civil companies delivering specialist engineering service both on site and in the office.
Job Titles:
- Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
- Mining Geotechnical Engineer
Sepehr is a Mining Geotechnical Engineer who has over 3 years of experience in the mining and metallurgy industry. Sep started his career as a Metallurgical Engineer in a steel foundry and production. His interest in mining industry drew him to continue his studies in mine engineering. Sep's research activities involve studying mine production efficiency and water management techniques.
Simon is an experienced Mining Engineer with over 25 years of experience, specialising in underground hard rock mining in bulk, narrow vein and tabular mining methods. He has held numerous positions in Management in both open pit and underground mines including those in Australia and overseas in countries such as Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia. Simon was Mining Manager at Silverlake Resources at the Mount Monger Operations prior to joining Mining One.
Simon's expertise includes project reviews and due diligence of mining operations, underground management, mine design and optimisation, mine ventilation, contract management, backfill, cost modelling, equipment selection and scheduling
Simon's strong analytical and computer skills are complimented by excellent written and oral communication.
Job Titles:
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Simon is a Mining & Geotechnical Engineer with a problem-solving mindset and positive attitude to challenges. He started working with Wardell Armstrong International following the completion of his Master's degree at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM). His experience has Included working on a wide range of open pit and underground metalliferous mining projects completing geotechnical studies, mine optimisation, design, scheduling, and cash flow analysis for several operating mines and greenfield projects. To date, this work has covered mining projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Russia, Botswana and Europe.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Stephen is an experienced Senior Mining Engineer with over 18 years of experience particularly in underground mine design and planning. His experience covers all aspects of underground mine design and scheduling, stope design / optimisation and drill and blast design and has developed a level of proficiency in software such as Deswik, EPS, MineWorks Planner, GanttScheduler, Vulcan, etc. Stephen has been involved with reserve estimation work, scoping studies, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies as well as multiple, operations based mining engineer roles.
Steve is a motivated Professional Mining Engineer with over ten years of experience. He has project management experience and a knowledge of mining best practices and operations. Steve has proven skills in enhancing productivity, efficiency, and bottom-line profitability with forward-thinking leadership. Steve brings experience in years of field work and is ready to take on challenges and provide the best solutions to all projects.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Stewart is one of Mining One's senior mining personnel with extensive site management and operations background. His practical hands on mining experience of over 35 years has enabled him to successfully manage many well-resourced mining operations both in Australia, Africa, France, China and Indonesia.
He is skilled in mine planning, designs and schedules with proficient software skills in Surpac, Ventsim, Deswik, RINGking and Datamine. His mine designs are invariably practical and detailed so as to allow for easy implementation by on-site personnel which assists our clients greatly when trying to embed oneself in the culture of mine sites around the world.
Stewart provides reliable and honest management of operations through promoting a working environment of mutual respect between the workforce and management.
Job Titles:
- Geology Manager / Melbourne, Australia
Stuart has over 23 years of experience in the Australian and international mining industry. He has worked in a wide range of gold, base metal, rare earth, bauxite, iron ore, diamond and emerald deposits. He has experience ranging from grass roots exploration through to mine geology and resource estimation in both underground and surface mining operations. Stuart has also had extensive experience with project assessment, geological audits, project valuations (VALMIN) and due diligence studies on both exploration and mining projects. He is a proficient user of Surpac, Vulcan and Micromine software packages. He is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. He is deemed as a Competent Person and Qualified Person for JORC 2012 and NI43-101 resource estimate sign off covering multiple commodities and deposit styles.
Sumukha is a Geotechnical Engineer specialising in mine geotechnical engineering. He has completed a Master of Engineering at RMIT and his current experience is based upon underground and open pit geotechnical design. Sumukha's thesis has assisted a notable underground zinc mine with its ongoing understanding and geotechnical management of critical underground infrastructure. At Mining One he has been involved in several technical projects, both open pit and underground. His experience includes ground stability assessments in both 2D and 3D analysis methods. Key experience covers underground design, material parameter derivation for the purpose of slope stability in isotropic and anisotropic rock masses; stress modelling of underground excavations and ground support design.
Job Titles:
- Senior Mining Engineer / Melbourne, Australia
Thomas is a Mining Engineer with over seven years of experience in open pit mining with exposure in various projects and operations. During his time with Mining One, Thomas has been involved in a number of mining studies across a broad spectrum of commodities such as coal, gold, copper, iron ore, and quarry. He has developed a strong knowledge of open pit mining including mine planning (short/medium/long and Life of Asset Planning), pit and dump design, pit optimisation, scheduling, fleet selection, haul road modelling, Talpac analysis, production reporting, project cost analysis, financial modelling, and technical reporting. He also has strong operational knowledge and experience as a truck and shovel engineer across several coal and gold mines as well as quarries.
Thomas is familiar with many mining software packages including Vulcan, Surpac, Studio 3, Mine 2-4D, Minescape, Talpac, Xact, MineSched, Whittle, Deswik, AutoCAD and Rocscience (RocData, Slide, Swedge, Dips).
Job Titles:
- Process Engineer
- Senior Process Engineer
Trent is an experienced Process Engineer with 10+ years in project delivery, process optimisation and operations improvement. He has extensive site experience across a range of commodities and processes, including gold and base metals mineral processing and hydrometallurgy. This includes concept studies and project design, as well as delivery, commissioning and optimisation of site projects and initiatives. He has a strong interest in data analytics and using data to inform process changes and benefit evaluations.
Volga is a Mining Engineer with 6 years of experience in open pit mining, particularly in gold and copper commodities. She has a strong background in short/medium term mine planning/scheduling, pit & dump design, dry-wet season outpit project, mine production and reporting. Volga also has experience in mining contractor supervision. Qualifications include proficient in operating software Surpac, AutoCAD, MineSched, MineSight.
Wenbo is a Geotechnical Engineer with over 3 years of practical site experience in underground mines in Australia. He has gained civil engineering experience developed through a variety of roles.
Wenbo has obtained excellent communication skills, well-developed teamwork skills and has good leadership skills.
Yossie is a Mining Engineer with more than 14 years of work experience in the mining industry both in open cut operations and underground mines. He has extensive experience in pre-strip / truck and shovel planning and design for coal, gold and nickel mine operations. His design and planning skills are complimented by his cost estimation experience and demonstrated business acumen.
Job Titles:
- Mining Engineer
- Graduate Mining Engineer
Zola is a mining engineer and qualified mine surveyor with over 6 years of operational and technical experience. She was involved in several feasibility studies in Mongolia, performing cost and cashflow models. In her time with Mining One, Zola has focused her efforts on pit optimisations, mine design and scheduling and block model manipulation. Zola is an efficient user of various computer packages including Micromine, Minesight and Surpac. She is also a competent user of RocSience 2D slope stability analysis tools. Zola obtained her Master degree in Mining Engineering Technology at Federation University Australia, specialising slope stability investigation.