Biography

Dave is the Chief Technology Officer in Mining and Metals (M&M). He engages with our customers through trust and industry knowhow. He brings technical leadership and excellence in process engineering across studies and projects. He has been involved in development projects from bench scale laboratory scale testing to commercialization operations in multiple mining and metal, also minerals. Dave has over 38 years of experience in mineral processing technology including supervision of test work programs, conceptual studies, feasibility studies, basic and detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, an d plant optimization. His experience covers a broad range of minerals and metals including copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, bauxite, platinum, uranium, lead-zinc, diamonds, and other industrial minerals. His Technical expertise includes Geo metallurgy, comminution, concentrator design, plant commissioning and plant optimization. He has vast experience across process operations having worked in five continents with several mining companies including De Beers/Anglo American/Phelps Dodge. He has been responsible for the key process equipment selection across many flowsheets. Dave’s technical specialty areas are Geo metallurgy and comminution. He has authored more than 36 professional publications and presentations on topics in mineral processing that include articles in mineral processing books, conference papers and conference keynote presentations and in Geo metallurgy forums and plant design and start-up. He was past chair of the SME’s Mineral Processing Division (MPD) Plant Design committee. He is part of the SME’s MPD executive committee and the chair for 2023/2024. He is on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in London and on the Canadian SAG 2023 conference international organizing committee. He participated in two chapters for the new Mineral Processing handbook that was released in 2019.