Experience

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  Resolute Mining Limited

  • Australia
  • Mining
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

    • May 2022 - Present

  • Chief Operating Officer

    • May 2021 - Apr 2022

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  PT MSM and TTN

  • President Commissioner/NE Chairman

    • Sep 2020 - May 2021

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  PT Archi Indonesia

  • Indonesia

  • CEO

    • Nov 2016 - May 2021
    • Indonesia

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  Archipelago Resources Pte Limited & Archipelago Resources Limited

  • Singapore

  • Executive Director

    • Feb 2016 - May 2021
    • Singapore

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  PT Meares Soputan Mining & PT Tambang Tondano Nusajaya

  • Manado Area, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

  • Operations Director

    • Jun 2014 - Aug 2020
    • Manado Area, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Expanding operations at the epithermal gold mine, based upon ongoing discoveries from 2014 onwards, from producing 150 koz in 2014 to >300 koz Au per annum by 2021 - all by open pit mining.

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  Paramount Mining Corporation

  • Singapore

  • CEO and MD

    • Oct 2011 - May 2014
    • Singapore

    Responsible for ASX-listed company in the advanced Exploration stage of a high-grade underground gold project in Indonesia.

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  Platmin Limited

  • RSA

  • COO & Head of Exploration and Development

    • Jun 2007 - Oct 2011
    • RSA

    Built and Commissioned a 400kt per month Platinum Concentrator and put in place supply and off-take contracts.Assembled the full management team for the open-pit Mine and Concentrator.Subsequently focused on a 'pipeline' of several other platinum 'Exploration to Feasibility Study' underground and open-pit project programs to increase the Company portfolio

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  Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum (now Ivanhoe Mines Limited)

  • RSA

  • Senior Vice President & Executive Director

    • Jun 2003 - Jun 2007
    • RSA

    Responsible for putting together the portfolio for a subsequent listing of the Company on the TSX, with major exploration discoveries of Kamoa (Cu-Co) and Platreef (PGM & Ni), being internationally promoted to sustain exploration programs over a 'basket' of projects within Southern Africa, Australia, Argentina and PRC.Exploration projects varied from Gold, Diamonds, Platinum, Copper, Zinc and Nickel.

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  Anglo American Platinum - Waterval Smelter & RBMR

  • RSA

  • Business Manager

    • 2000 - 2003
    • RSA

    Responsible for the Smelter (2 years) and Base Metal Refinery (1 year) producing >2 Moz of Platinum per annum, in a PGM-rich concentrate, as well as other PGM's and the LME base metals of Nickel, Copper and Cobalt.Responsible on occasion for up to 4,500 personnel on site due the successful de-bottlenecking of the Smelter to 2.5 Moz Platinum per annum, which involved commissioning of 2 x 30 MVA furnaces, 1 x Ausmelt Converter and a two stage Acid Plant, over this time at revised WHO emission standards.Was also on the Steering Committee for the design and construction of the groups new 67 MVA furnace at Polokwane.

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  BHP Minerals Zimbabwe

  • Zimbabwe

  • Plant Manager

    • 1994 - 1999
    • Zimbabwe

    Designed, patented, developed, commissioned and operated the Base Metal Refinery producing a PGM concentrate as well as LME Nickel and Copper.Assembled the full operational team led by three ex-pats as well as led all supply and off-take contract negotiations.Intimately involved in entry level and senior staff operator training - developing and presenting programs as well as continually closing the identified 'Skills Gaps'.

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  Impala Platinum

  • RSA

  • Refinery Manager - Refining Services Manager

    • Nov 1991 - Feb 1994
    • RSA

    Managed the Nickel Refinery, producing a PGM Concentrate as well as LME Nickel, Copper and Cobalt, and then took over and developed the Refinery Services Manager position at Head Office which developed PGM concentrate and base metal toll refining contracts.

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  Golden Dumps

  • RSA

  • Consulting Metallurgist

    • 1989 - 1991
    • RSA

    Technically responsible for seven operations: three gold plants (one being the first to use Carbon commercially to capture gold from cyanide leaching), two gold refineries, one chrome plant, one diamond mine and the support for greenfields exploration for platinum.

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  Anglo Platinum - PMR/BMR//Union Section

  • RSA

  • Metallurgist - Plant Superintendent

    • 1980 - 1989
    • RSA

    Commissioned expansion to Platinum Refinery (Wadeville), commissioned new Base Metal Refinery (Rustenburg), then operated as well as suppplied technical support to BMR, Magnetic Concentrator Plant, Research Laboratories, Waterval Smelter, Union Mines Smelter and UG2 Concentrator.Became a Chartered Engineer (IOM3 UK) in 1987