Education
- NHD, (Mining Engineering) University of Johannesburg, 1979;
- ND, (Mining Engineering), University of Johannesburg, 1978;
- MDP, University of Pretoria, 1989; and
- BCompt (UNISA), 2017.
Professional Registrations and Affiliations
- Underground fiery mine blasting certificate, DMR 1978, MD259 – S14963;
- Open Pit/Cast blasting certificate, DMR 2005, MD259(d) – 6604;
- Member SA Institute of Directors: Reg Number: 39025112;
- ASQC-CQE USA 1982;
- Mine Managers Certificate of Competency DMR Serial No: 000189. Certificate No: 6861;
- Professional Engineer (SME: Colorado USA): 4221595; and
- Pr Tech Eng (ECSA: South Africa): 201570101.
Skills and Competencies
- A strategic thinker with a good mix of practical and theoretical knowledge and experience.
- Extremely competent mining engineer with outstanding mining and metallurgical engineering, project management and financial skills;
- Relevant experience in a wide variety of geology, minerals, mining methods and metallurgical processes across the African continent.
- Extremely competent with all MS office packages including databases; and
- Well versed in the various mineral resource and reserve reporting standards and local and international competent persons (CPR) and due diligence reporting. This includes NI43-101 of Canada, SME of United States of America, JORC, SAMREC of South Africa, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS, SIC, FRG) and securities exchange standards.
Areas of Experience and Specialisation
Strategic mine management;
- Local and International mineral and metal market analysis for coal, metals, rare earth and industrial minerals. This includes coal, lithium, gold, chrome, mica, talcose minerals, silica, rare earth and iron group commodities;
- Exploration geology, geology resource and reserve planning, assessment and reporting to balance sheet;
- Open pit/cast and underground mine and solution extraction, quarry, mine infrastructure, mining method design and optimisation for hard rock, pegmatites and coal, mining and ancillary equipment specification;
- Metals and coal ore dressing, mineral beneficiation, metallurgy beneficiation and metallurgical process design, in minerals, including coal, lithium, gold, chrome, mica, talcose minerals, silica, rare earth and iron;
- Competent Person’s and Mine Valuation Reports, Due Diligence assessments and reporting for stock exchange registration, investment analysis, rates of return and decision-making in accordance with SAMVAL, MINVAL, NI43-101 and IFRS;
- Mine valuation and costing assessment, analysis and reporting for balance sheet purposes in accordance with IFRS;
- Technical and financial feasibility studies up to bankable level;
- Mine design and mining methods for open cut and underground mining in wide variety of mineralisation and ore body classes;
- Design, development and operation of materials handling systems and methodologies in surface and underground operations
- Project management in the EPCM environment for small and mega projects;
- Fully conversant with CAD based mine survey, mine design and mine planning software with emphasis on SURPAC, X-PAC, Talpac and Whittle; and
- Database programming for mine (Object based) modelling in Access and Visual Basic;
Brief Employment History
2017 – Present Senior Mine Manager and Principal Mining Engineer with Lengau Coal (Pty) Ltd (In Liquidation);
2015 – Present Director and Principal Mining Engineer at Omega Pinnacle Investments (Pty) Ltd;
2015 – 2016 Principal Mining Engineering Consultant on project basis to Geotheta (Pty) Limited;
2014 – 2015 Study sabbatical. Studying at honours level and aim to, thereafter, read for MSc (Mining Engineering- Mine valuations);
2012 – 2014 Exxaro Resources Ltd. Senior Project Manager Mining;
2005 – 2012 Micronized South Africa Ltd. Mine Manager, Project Manager, Technical Manager, Director of Local and International Operations and mine and process design specialist;
2004 – 2005 Gelletich Mining Industries (Pty) Ltd: Mine Manager and Technical Manager;
2002 – 2004 Mathys Krog Attorneys: Mining Law consultant for mining rights conversions and other mining law aspects; and
1995 – 2002 Genesis Global (Pty) Ltd: Technical Director, Principal Mining Engineer and Project Manager Mine design and establishment for local and international clientele.
Languages
- Mother Tongue, English – read, write, speak;
- Afrikaans – read, write, speak fluently;
- French – read, write, speak reasonably fleuntly;
- Mandarin – speak; and
- Various local South African languages – speak.
