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Mine Closure & Rehabilitation

International, national and local experience across a number of commodities, legacy sites, currently operating and care, maintenance operations. Assisting companies transitioning into alternate industries. Residing in Australia. 

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Capability

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- Integrating closure into Life of Mine plans to realise value.

- Preparation of mine closure and execution plans and associated liabilities.

- Independent review of mine closure and rehabilitation plans (due diligence).

- Development and monitoring of success criteria to facilitate relinquishment.

- Developing rehabilitation plans for mining and other industries.

- Assisting with the implementation of rehabilitation plans.

- Examination of traditional and novel post-mining land uses and associated closure visions.

- Development and implementation of post-rehabilitation monitoring and maintenance plans (e.g. weed, fire).

- Design and implementation of rehabilitation trials investigating different prescriptions.

- Development of adaptive models to facilitate the achievement of success criteria, and identify required monitoring and maintenance.

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Facilitation and Guest Speaker

- Key note speaker at Restoration and Mining conferences

Facilitating mine closure training (including Mine Closure Toolbox v3).

- Facilitating mine closure risk and opportunity workshops.

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Review

Reviewer of Research papers and International and National conference papers 

Mine Closure and Rehabilitation experience

  • Eight years as Global Head of Mine Closure for Anglo American, including reviewing over 50 sites mine closure plans and associated liabilities declared on the balance sheet at $US5B undiscounted and $US3B discounted.

  • Led the InvestCo reviews for the first two De Beers sites to be closed valued at almost half a billion dollars.

  • Developed the Group-wide Anglo compulsory closure standard as well as the Group rehabilitation strategy.

  • Co-developed and implemented the ground-breaking Integrated Closure Planning System at ten operations around the globe (2015-2020). Primary author of the Mine Closure Toolbox (version 3) that is publicly available and contains extensive guidance on closure liability calculation.

  • Facilitated over 100 risk, opportunity, baseline maturity and gap analyses workshops across the Anglo American global operations (2014-2022).

  • Drove the process of relinquishment for Alcoa’s Jarrahdale Mine in the Jarrah Forest of Western Australia.

  • Participated in over 20 due diligence exercises for mergers and acquisitions.

  • Extensively published in national and international literature and renowned conference key note and panel member (three book chapters, 49 refereed publications and 39 conference papers).

  • Broader experience in environmental management, mine planning, spatial services and social performance.

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