EW # 497 Consultants, Inc., zinc industry expert, expert witness for Superfund RP determination, and good all around extractive metallurgist that we highly recommend,
BACKGROUND
Education: B.S. Metallurgical Engineering, 1964, Missouri School of Mines
M.S. Metallurgical Engineering, 1966, Colorado School of Mines
D.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering, 1967, Colorado School of Mines
Registered Professional Engineer: Texas (Certificate 61088)
Chartered Engineer: United Kingdom
Languages: Spanish; some Portuguese, French, German
CONSULTING AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Consultants Inc.
1989 - President, responsible for providing consulting services in copper, lead, zinc,
Present precious and platinum group metals mineral processing, extraction metallurgy, marketing, and project management.
Nerco Minerals Company
1988-1989 Manager of Minerals Business Development, responsible for minerals merger and acquisition activities, technical and economic evaluation of new technology for recovering copper, lead, and zinc from ores, and managing gold processing facility expansion project.
Jan H. Reimers and Associates USA Inc.
1986-1988 President, responsible for providing consulting services in copper, lead, zinc, precious and platinum group metals mineral processing, extraction metallurgy, and marketing.
Exxon Minerals Company
1984-1986 Manager of Technical Services, responsible for providing technical support in mining, metallurgical, civil, environmental, mechanical, geotechnical and electrical engineering to copper, uranium and gold operations and copper, zinc and lead development projects and acquisition studies.
1984 Senior Staff Advisor, responsible for developing business strategy and tactics for marketing products from zinc-copper-lead mine.
1982-1984 Manager of Minerals Processing, responsible for developing new and improving existing processes and providing technical support in minerals processing and metallurgical engineering to operations, projects and acquisition activities.
1980-1982 Manager of Business Environment and Commodity Analysis, responsible for commodity supply/demand/price forecasting, assessing the business environment in countries of interest for current and potential operations, and negotiating entry permits.
1978-1980 Manager of Minerals Processing Research, responsible for establishing programs, staffing, and facilities for minerals processing and extractive metallurgy research and technical service in support of newly established minerals business.
St. Joe Minerals Corporation/St. Joseph Lead Company
1976-1978 General Superintendent, Monaca Zinc Smelter, responsible for operation and maintenance of 180,000 MTPY electrothermic zinc smelter employing 1600 salary and payroll personnel.
1975-1976 Superintendent, Roaster-Acid Department, responsible for operation and maintenance of 1200 MTPD roaster-sulfuric acid complex in zinc smelter employing 9 roasters, 6 sulfuric acid units, and 80 salary and payroll personnel.
1972-1975 Manager of Extractive Metallurgy, responsible for providing technical support in extractive metallurgy to zinc, zinc oxide, lead, silver, gold, iron pellet, and copper operations, projects and acquisition activities.
1969-1972 Senior Extractive Metallurgist, responsible for planning and executing research projects to improve roasting, sintering, furnacing, and refining processes at Monaca, Pennsylvania zinc smelter and Herculaneum, Missouri lead smelter.
U. S. Army
1967-1969 Captain, responsible for nondestructive testing laboratory involved in quality control for Apollo Program tanks, fuels and oxidizers.
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
· American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), Board of Trustees, 1987-88.
· The Metallurgical Society (TMS-AIME), President 1987.
· Society of Mining Engineers (SME-AIME)
· Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIMM)
· Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (IMM), Overseas Member of Council for the USA, 1986 - 1994; Fellow - Class of 1986
· National Materials Advisory Board Task Force on Competitiveness of the U.S. Mineral Industry, 1988-1990.
· Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
PATENTS
· "Mercury Removal from Sulfuric Acid" U. S. Patent 3,947,561
· "Mercury Removal from Sulfuric Acid" Canadian Patent 1,035,544
HONORS AND AWARDS
· Best Extractive Metallurgy Paper in Journal of Metals, TMS-AIME, 1990
· 1993 Henry Krumb Lecturer, SME-AIME
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