Experience

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  Winters Technical Staffing

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • Contractor

    • Jan 2017 - Present
    • Toronto, Canada Area

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  WorleyParsons

  • Mississauga, ON

  • Senior Metallurgical Specialist

    • Sep 2013 - Jan 2017
    • Mississauga, ON

    Process Engineering for Dundee Precious Metal’s Tsumeb Smelter Expansion Prefeasibility Study.Review of sodium sulphate evaporator circuit for TODA Advanced Materials, Sarnia, ONIGP FEL 3 Study for PT Vale, Bhadopi Nickel Refinery Effluent Treatment Plant design review and vendor bid evaluation. Reunion Gold, Supervision of a FEL 1 study for a 400ktpy silicomanganese smelter and sinter plant, to be located in Trinidad and Tobago

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  SNC Lavalin

  • Perth, Australia

  • Senior Process Engineer

    • May 2012 - Jul 2013
    • Perth, Australia

    Supervision of Nickel Laterite PAL-ATL-SN Test program at SGS Lakefield Ortest in Perth for AT Artha Bumi MiningReview and modelling of fines raw water distribution circuit for Newmont Boddington Gold Mines in WA. Made recommendations to improve operational issues that were being experienced by MNGM operating personnelCompleted a study to investigate the factors contributing to a hydraulic restriction in Vale New Caledonia's Goro partial neutralisation circuit and provided recommendations to rectify the flow limitations.Participated in a PDRI review for the KingKing Copper/Gold project for Nadecor in Manila, Philipines.

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  Intec Envirometals

  • Senior Process Engineer

    • May 2008 - May 2012

    Process engineering of hydrometallurgical treatment plants, involving the Intec Process

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  WorleyParsons

  • Senior Hydrometallurgical Engineer

    • Jan 2005 - Dec 2007

    Process engineering for smelter waste treatment plants.Start-up and commissioning of a weak acid bleed treatment plant, Pirdop, Bulgaria

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  HG Engineering

  • Senior Process Engineer

    • 1989 - 2005

    Process engineering and project management for smelter waste treatment plants, smelter offgas collection and treatment, and acid plant blowdown treatment.Managed two basic engineering studies for Phelps Dodge, El Paso TX. One for a purification plant to remove copper, arsenic, and bismuth from the tank house electrolyte, and another for a metals recovery plant to allow the recycle of waste water. Start up and commissioning of Kennecott Utah Copper's smelter hydrometallurgical dust and bleed treatment plant, Salt Lake City, Utah

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  Davy Canada

  • Process Engineer

    • 1985 - 1989

    Process engineering of Indium treatment plant, Copper heap leach and SX/EW plant. Assisted with the commissioning of a magnesium production facility near High River, Alberta.Supervision of 15,000 tonne pilot gold milling study at INCO’s McBean Mine, Kirkland Lake, Ontario.

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  Witteck Development

  • Metallurgist

    • 1982 - 1985

    Responsible for the daily operation of the Pilot Plant.Set up and operated various laboratory and pilot scale test programs for various clients, while at Witteck Development Inc. and at Lakefield Research. These included SAG mill grinding programs, column flotation, Jameson Cell flotation, Column leaching, etc.Designed software and set-up computer-controlled grinding classification system as part of a CANMET/EMR study of Energy Conservation on Grinding of Industrial Minerals.

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  Steetley Industries

  • Metallurgist

    • 1980 - 1982

    Made various improvements to Steetley’s talc benefication/fine grinding operations.Research into the discharge flow characteristics of talc: Bulk Bags.Improvements to a high-shear talc slurrying device.Determination of pitch-absorption capabilities and abrasiveness of Steetley’s talc products for various pulp and paper mills.