Current Position at CWAConsultant, St Barbara Consultancy Services.
Specific Expertise and
Experience at CWA
A certified Internal Quality Auditor for ISO
9000 & ISO 10011. His key skills may be summarised as follows:
Has an extensive knowledge of metalliferous operations
ranging from mining issues related to processing, concentrate shipping and sampling; sales
contracts and the integration of good environmental practice into day to day management.
Experience of a wide variety of due diligence assignments and
audits for banking purposes.
Design and commissioning experience of a broad range of
concentration circuits including flotation, gravity concentration and magnetic separation.
Detailed optimisation and capacity increase studies carried
out for numerous plants.
Previous Experience
| 2002 to 2004 |
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Mackay & Schnellmann
Limited - Director Responsible
for signing off stock exchange documentation e.g.
Competent Person's Report and valuation of the chrome and
vanadium assets of Xstrata for a main board London Stock Exchange listing.
Qualified Person's Report to Canadian Standard 43-101 on the
Kipushi Zinc project, DRC. |
1996 to 2001 |
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Mackay & Schnellmann Limited - Metallurgist and
ManagerJoined IMC Mackay & Schnellmann in
March 1996 as Principal Metallurgist working on various consultancy assignments involving
gold, copper, lead/zinc/silver, tin, silica glass sand, manganese, vanadium (in magnetite
and hematite), tungsten, germanium, indium and rutile (titanium). He became a Director in
2001 |
Prior 1996 |
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Started his professional career at the Chambishi Copper Mine in Zambia, following
his degree in Mineral Technology at the Royal School of Mines. He worked on the computer
control of the grinding circuit and commissioning of Davcra pneumatic flotation cells.
Following a year at a gravity tungsten operation, Andrew joined Carnon Consolidated. He
rose from metallurgist to Metallurgical Superintendent at the Wheal Jane and South Crofty
polymetallic zinc, copper and tin operations. Optimisation of these complex flotation and
gravity operations, including the "de-bottlenecking" of the plants, helped
ensure the survival of the company through the "Tin Crisis" of 1985. This
ten-year period also included the downsizing, re-structuring and Management Buyout of the
operations from Rio Tinto and periods of consultancy for various mining companies. Subsequently re-joined Rio Tinto for Somincor at the Neves Corvo Copper Mine
in Portugal, initially as a Resident Consultant and subsequently as Process Department
Head. He was responsible for achieving power reductions in the grinding circuits,
resulting in large cost savings. He also instigated water management improvements to halve
fresh water consumption during a drought period. He was a founder member of the Rio Tinto
Milling Technical Panel - covering large processing operations world-wide.
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