Mr. Jeremy Boswell
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Mr. Boswell is the Thurber practice leader for tailings design, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. He has 40 of years of experience in tailings management, geotechnical and dam engineering and design, environmental management, public accountability and sustainable development. During his career he spent 15 years with the Fraser Alexander Group, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As Technical Director of Fraser Alexander Tailings he was responsible for 170 tailings facilities worldwide. He has inspected, analysed, designed and reviewed tailings facilities across the gold, platinum, diamonds, oil sands, copper, coal, fly ash, mineral sands, uranium, vanadium, chrome and other mining industries. Since joining Thurber in 2008, Mr. Boswell has led international projects focusing on the engineering design of external and in-pit geotechnical structures for oil sands tailings containment, technology option projects and road maps, fluid tailings dewatering, and specialist review of oil sands and hard rock tailings management plans and operations. He serves on Independent Tailings Review Boards. More recently he has focused on improving the defences of tailings structures in subject areas such as the Engineer-of-Record, lessons learned from historic tailings dam failures, leading indicators of tailings dam integrity, risk communication and design defences against static liquefaction. Teams and initiatives led by Mr. Boswell have received awards from the Consulting Engineers of Alberta, the Canadian Dam Association, and others. Mr. Boswell is licensed to practice as an engineer in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Yukon Territory. He was previously licensed in South Africa for over 25 years. He was also a member of ASCE for 15 years. Mr. Boswell has authored or co-authored over 60 tailings related papers, and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Dam Integrity Advisory Committee (DIAC), convened by the Alberta Chamber of Resources. He also was a member of the Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) Task Force on Tailings Engineer-of-Record.