Brief CV

Principal Consultant, Whitfield Consult

• Providing chemical engineering consulting services

• Areas: renewable energy, Rare Earths, Tantalum/Niobium, lithium, minerals processing

• Current project development: biomethane from cactus

 

Chief Technical Officer, Globe Metals and Mining

• Handling all things technical in the development of a niobium and tantalum mine in Malawi

• Development of chlorination to potentially replace HF/SX for tantalum/niobium extraction

• Currently busy with a BFS for a 1.5Mtpa pyrochlore mine including concentrator and HF/SX refinery

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Chief Technical Officer, Carbon Neutral Energy Systems

• Handling all things technical in the development of cactus to biomethane

 

Project Manager and Mine Executive, Bikita Mine, Zimbabwe

• Managing the mine on behalf of shareholders

• Installed a new DMS for petalite recovery

• Installed an optical sorting machine to recover pollucite

• Upgraded the tantalum and niobium concentrator

• PFS for a 1Mtpa spodumene concentrator

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Competent Person for Frontier Rare Earths

• Assisted with the design of the concentrator and separation plants

• Signed off both sections as part of the the NI43-101 compliant PFS

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Sales Director, AR Process Projects – an engineering and project management company

• Responsible for sales and process engineering

• Developed unique leach pre-heat system for uranium processing

• Areas: chemical, mining, minerals processing, pulp and paper, fertilizer, nuclear (PBMR Fuel Plant)

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Sales Manager, IMS Process Projects

• Managed sales of capital equipment principally evaporators, crystallisers, dryers, fluidized bed combustors, distillation systems, scrubbing systems, gas cleaning, effluent treatment plants, etc

• Assistance with the development of a unique Black Liquor Steam Reforming process

• Trouble shooting and provision of technical solutions to process challenges

• Plant commissioning

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