Our Experience

Company / Division / Location / Role / Project / Undertaking

World Bank - Steel Authority of India Limited

Kinhill Engineers / BHP Engineering JV / Project Manager & lead author / Environmental Impact Studies for four Indian Steel Plants with a combined capacity of 14 Mt/a / Delegated authority of Environmental Monitoring Superintendent for the four plants during EIS preparation

Western Mining Corporation

Kinhill Stearns Roger JV / Lead Author / PFS & Environmental Impact Study (EIS) / Environmental assessment, overall process hydrometallurgy and tailings

BHP

Olympic Dam Expansion (Stage II) / Lead Author – Stage II Expansion / Environmental Impact Study (EIS) / Environmental assessment, overall process hydrometallurgy and tailings

Olympic Dam Expansion (ODX) / Lead engineer Hydromet & Tailings / PFS Mine Expansion /Feasibility, Engineering, Procurement & Construction

Olympic Dam Operations / Industry Director – Minerals & Process / $160M tails leach project / Oversee project team involved in design and construction

BHP Steel / Projects Manager / Port Kembla & Whyalla Steel works / Operations Productivity Enhancement

BHP/ Kinhill JV / Project Manager / Steel Authority of India / TATA Iron & Steel / Environment, Asset Management & Mining

BHP Indonesia Coal / Project Manager / Senakin Mine Expansion / Feasibility, Funding, Engineering, Procurement & Construction

Minera Escondida / Project Manager / Colosso Cathode Plant Moth Balling

One Steel /Aurium

Iron Duke Expansion / Project Manager / New crusher and rail loading facility, dust / Conceptual design, Prefeasibility stage / Project Magnet and Tailings reprocessing / Conceptual design

River Sands

Evaluation studies / Project Manager / Mary River, river sand evaluation for processing and sale / Conceptual design and PFS

Rare Earth Corporation (Kerry Packer)

PFS and EIS / Principal Author – Hydromet & tailings / Reprocessing of tailings at Rare Earth Corporation Port Pirie / Conceptual design and PFS and EIS

Western Plains Resources

Magnetite and hematite project / Process Engineer / Ore beneficiation studies to develop direct shipping ore (DSO) / Led to successful sale of company and resources to One Steel (later Aurium)

Rio Tinto

Queensland Alumina Limited / Water demand management / Reducing freshwater demand for red mud (tailings) and cooling circuits / EPCM design and commissioning which led to  Comalco Refinery (CAR-II) being seawater cooled

Bougainville Copper / Capital Projects / Ball Mill Expansion / Crushing & Screening Expansion

Gladstone Area Water Board

Gladstone Economic Region / Strategic Planning Engineer / Seawater cooling project 2003-04 / Strategic Plan – 2005-2010 / Principal environmental engineer, principal author (1 of 2)

Centrex Metals

Magnetite project / Principal Process engineer / Pre-feasibility for magnetite processing adjacent One Steel Whyalla for a Chinese consortium / Meetings, conceptual design, negotiations with vendor/owner  and owners engineer.

Global Geoscience Services

Business Vision 2010 / Geoscience Services / Director / Business development – liaison with Business Vision 2010 and Business SA / Key role in developing the geoscience services cluster in SA.

Environment Industry Cluster

Business Vision 2010 / Environmental Services / Chair and later CEO / Business development for Business Vision 2010.  / Grew membership from 1 to 32 service provider organisations in two years before being absorbed by Business SA (SA Chamber of Commerce)

World Bank/ AusAID

Kinhill-PPK JV Shanghai Environmental Master Plan / Principal Environmental Engineer / Pre-treatment of industrial effluents discharged into HuangPu River and Chiang Jiang / Principal Author and management of 15 member counterpart team of Shanghai Research Institute for Environmental Protection (SRIEP)

World Bank / Unesco

Shanghai Environmental Master Plan / Principal Author / Pre-treatment Guidelines for industrial and process effluents for UNESCO / Principal researcher and author

Yara International ASA

New Mines / Technical Director / Tunisia Phosphate & Ethiopian Potash / Projects development through feasibility to construction

South Blackwater Coal

Kenmare Longwall Colliery / Change Management, Production & Maintenance Planning Manager / Productivity & Reliability Enhancement

Flour Daniel

Oil & Gas Operations / General Manager Victoria / Offshore platforms construction & Maintenance / Long Island Production / Altona Refinery / ESSO BHP Petroleum Operations

Clyde Caruthers

Pilbara W.A. / General Manager / Hamersely Iron Mine Operations / BHP Iron Port Operations / Rail & Fixed Plant Maintenance & Construction Operations

Aker Kvaerner/ Aker/ Jacobs (various name changes)

Philippines Mining / Projects Manager / BD Manager / Tampakan Copper Mine Feasibility Studies / Atlas Copper Restart

WorleyParsons Services

Chief Env Engineer, Minerals / Copper-uranium (BHP-ODX), rare earths (Lynas, Rare Earth Corp), LNG water treatment (Woodside, Shell-Arrow, Santos, BCG) and magnetite (Project Magnet) and Ore beneficiation (OBP-IronDuke) – One Steel/Aurium. Strategic planning, environmental impact, prefeasibility and bankable feasibility studies and front-end engineering design (FEED).

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)

Industry Director- Minerals & Process / Execution of BHP-ODX tails leach project,  business development Santos Moomba, OneSteel Whyalla, Centrex Mining (magnetite), Western Plains Resources (hematite).  Concept and design of crushing plant and expanded train loading facility, Iron Duke.