Archives: Mining people

Speaking in advance of the landmark Future Minerals Summit (FMS) in Saudi Arabia, on January 11-13, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, Robert Friedland, has spoken of his excitement at the development of the largely unexplored, mineral-rich Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) region. He described the forthcoming summit as “very important” for the mining[…]

Southern Innovation, a developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art real-time materials analysis equipment for the global mining industry, says it has taken a strategic step forward in sales and marketing with the appointment of Steve Russell as Head of Sales and Business Development. Russell, currently Director of Mining at Scott Automation & Robotics, joins the Southern[…]

SNC-Lavalin has appointed Dr Trevor Sparks as Global Vice-President of Tailings and Water Management for the company’s Mining & Metallurgy business. Trevor is based in the UK and will lead the expansion of the company’s tailings and water management global business in the mining industry, working in collaboration with teams around the world. Cesar Inostroza,[…]

BHP is one of the most experienced global miners in terms of fully autonomous blasthole drilling, now with a large fleet and having used both new autonomous machines as well as retrofitting older models in the Pilbara going back some years across its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operations – most recently at South Flank[…]

Ralf Hennecke has been appointed as the Managing Director of BME, a division of the Omnia Group, with effect from December 1, 2021. Hennecke started his career in 1987 at Rand Mines Limited and was employed at Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, following which he joined Omnia BME in 1995. He has deep operational, marketing, sales, commercial[…]

Frontline work management software company, Commit Works, has, this week, handed over the reins to newly appointed CEO, James Aleman. Aleman comes to Commit Works equipped with 25 years of Software-as-a-Service knowledge and experience offering solutions to a variety of asset-intensive industries including mining and construction. Andrew Jessett, Acting CEO at Commit Works and Australasian[…]

It isn’t often that you get to talk with the top technology gurus at Caterpillar about the future of mining and the future of automation in mining. Paul Moore, IM Editorial Director had just such a sit-down meeting at MINExpo 2021 with Karl Weiss, Chief Technology Officer; Michael Murphy, Chief Engineer for Mining Technology; and[…]

First Quantum Minerals has announced that its Board of Directors will appoint Tristan Pascall, currently the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The appointment will take effect at the Annual General Meeting to be held in early May 2022, at which time Philip Pascall (Tristan’s father), the company’s[…]

We’ve all heard about the sustained pressures mining companies are facing from stakeholders when it comes to changing the way they do business, with the use of new technology often touted as the way to transform the sector for the good of the industry and society. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced, these technologies[…]

Thomas Schulz, FLSmidth’s Group CEO, has made the decision to take a role outside of the company, and will therefore step down as FLSmidth’s CEO by end of 2021. Mikko Keto, who joined FLSmidth in January 2021 as President of FLSmidth’s Mining business and member of Group Executive Management, has been appointed incoming CEO by[…]