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Our pool of consultants have an extensive background across a broad range of projects. This cuts across most commodities and covers both underground and open pit operations. Although our core experience base is the managment of study and due diligence work, we also have consultants with extensive EPCM type project managment as well as operational management experience.
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Pat Willis (UK) is a mining engineer and Professional Enghineer with over 40 years’ experience in mining, mining research and development, and private consultancy. Pat has led a number of feasibility studies and technical reviews in the past 15 years covering most commodities. He has also acted as Expert Witness and provides expert opinion on a range of mining related issues. He is a holder of a South African Mine Metallurgical Managers Certificate of Competency and is a Fellow and past President of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM). He is Managing Director of the UK office.
Selected Associate Consultants
Mine & Geotechnical Engineers
Steve Brace (UK) is a mining engineer with more than 35 years’ experience. Having spent a number of years in the South Africa mining industry he joined SASOL to build up their explosive business from virtually nothing to the size it is today. As well as doing blast design, he is now a world expert on blasting and explosives and specialises on International Explosives Regulatory Compliance.
Chris Jones (RSA) has worked in the mining industry since graduating in 2006. Following his initial training with Rio Tinto in Australia, Chris moved to Snowden’s, firstly in Australia and then in South Africa gaining international mining experience of diverse projects including: Project management of and completion of Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies, Independent Technical Reviews and Due Diligence studies for various ore deposits and providing on-site mine planning and mentoring to engineers at underground and open pit operations. He then joined Discovery Metals in Botswana and returned to consulting in 2014 as Senior Mining Engineer at Bara Consulting. He has significant experience in the use of multiple mine design, scheduling and mine optimisation software. Chris Sangster (UK) is a mining engineer with over 35 years’ experience in the mining industry. He has a BSc Hons in Mining Engineering from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College in London and a GDE in Mineral Economics from the University of Witwatersrand and is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining. His career covers extensive production and technical experience at senior levels in both junior and multi-national companies in gold, diamonds and base metals in Africa, UK and Canada and covers a wide range of mining applications. Between 1996 and 1999, Chris was General Manager for Caledonia Mining Corporation for the Cononish Gold Project and a Director of Fynegold Exploration. After 1999, he moved to the Zambian Copperbelt with Anglo American plc / KCM plc where he attained the position of Vice President Mining Services and in 2005 joined Australian Mining Consultants as a Principal Mining Engineer. In 2007, Chris co-founded ASX and AIM listed Scotgold Resources and was its CEO / Managing Director until October 2014. He remains a non-Executive Director and Technical Consultant to Scotgold and is a Non Executive Director of Ariana Resources.
Derek Walters (RSA) is a mining engineer with over 34 years experience in the mining industry. The majority of this has been spent in the mine environmental control and engineering discipline. Since 1999 Derek has performed risk and compliance auditing, ventilation and cooling system design assessments for pre-feasibility, fully bankable feasibility studies and due diligence investigations on over 50 diamond, precious metal, base metal and coal mines in Southern Africa, East and West Africa, Australia, Europe, Brazil, China, DRC, Ukraine, Tanzania and Mongolia.
Infrastructure & Logistical Engineers
Eddie Bryne (RSA) has over 30 years’ experience in the mining industry. This time has been split between design and manufacturing of mining related products, implementation and use of the products and the management of a multi-disciplined team of skilled professionals in design, manufacture, supply and construction of various plants and equipment whilst maintaining managerial control of project costs, delivery and scope of work requirements.
Allan du Plessis (RSA) has been in the mining industry since 1976, holding appointments from section engineer on a number of operating mines, to engineering manager and project manager for a large mining contracting company (Cementation, now Murray & Roberts Cementation and Cementation Canada). He has been consulting on various aspects of primary access design work, including decline and vertical shaft construction, and raiseboring for the last nine years and is considered a leading expert in this field. He also has inter alia, extensive surface and underground infrastructure experience, including grout plant and backfilling design.
Etienne de Villiers (RSA) has approximately 8 years’ experience in the mining industry. This experience includes work as a consulting mechanical engineer on the evaluation of systems and projects through mathematical, financial, statistical or risk modelling for various levels of study. Other experience includes mechanical design of facilities and services for both underground and open pit mines.
Alan Forsyth (RSA) received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1975, Alan joined Samuel Osborn (South Africa) Limited, who manufacture and supply materials handling and beneficiation plant, conveyors and equipment to the mining, quarrying and construction industries. Typically these were turnkey contracts over a broad range of minerals. Projects included tips, crushing and screening plants, conveyors systems, dense-medium beneficiation plants, sampling plants, storage and rapid-loading terminals, with capacities ranging up to 5,000tph and conveyors up to 2400 mm wide and 6 km in length. In July 1999 he was appointed managing director, the position he held until he left the company in September 2004. He is a registered professional enginner.
Metallurgical & Process Engineers
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ContactJim Pooley (South Africa) jim@baraconsulting.co.za Tel +27 (0) 82 373 0796 Pat Willis (UK) patw@baraconsulting.co.uk Tel + 44 (0) 7810 182 169 Andrew Bamber (CA) bamber@baraconsulting.co.uk Tel +1 778 386 8085
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