Biography

Brent Hilscher has over 20 years in mining and mineral processing. He has designed, commissioned, operated, and supervised mineral processing plants. He has published papers, patented technologies, and been a speaker at over a dozen conferences and universities in Canada and around the world. Brent has led design, and construction projects for Teck, Goldcorp, New Gold, Barrick, Xstrata, Agnico Eagle, and many others. He won the National CMP Bill Moore Award for technical excellence in 2013, and served as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. Because of his technical reputation Brent has been consulted as a senior advisor for World Bank, and NASA mining research projects. He has volunteered as an executive for both the CIM and CMP. Besides his typical mining projects he has also worked on mining innovation projects for both the United Nations and the Government of Canada.