People on the move: CAE Mining, Barminco, IronClad, Hannans Reward, Centaurus, Burey Gold, PMI Gold
8 February 2012
FORMER Datamine chief and CAE Mining president Nick Beaton is no longer with the Canadian company he joined when CAE acquired Datamine in April 2010.
The Datamine acquisition moved military and civil aviation simulation training leader CAE into the mining technical software market. It is unclear why Beaton (above left) and CAE severed ties. The former could not be contacted, while CAE has made no official comment on Beaton’s departure.
CAE announces its fiscal year 2012 third quarter results this week.
MINING contractor Barminco is looking for a new business development and commercial manager following David Noort’s departure.
The former principal and part-owner of management consulting firm Momentum Partners, and experienced mine manager, joined Barminco in April, 2010.
There has been no official announcement about his exit, which follows the recent resignations of other senior Barminco executives.
FORMER Brockman Resources managing director and BHP-Billiton senior executive, Wayne Richards, will soon be now running emerging Australian iron ore producer IronClad Mining. Richards will start as managing director of Perth-based IronClad on March 1.
The company’s Wilcherry Hill iron ore project on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is due to start production in the current quarter.
DON Huntly has quit as exploration manager of ASX-listed Hannans Reward. He started in the job in July 2010.
BRAZIL iron ore hopeful Centaurus Metals has appointed two in-country executives to key operational and logistics roles. The ASX-listed company is targeting the completion of a bankable feasibility study on a proposed 2Mtpa iron ore operation at Jambreiro in south-eastern Brazil by the end of the third Quarter of 2012.
Alexandro Avila de Moura, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the Brazilian mining industry, has been appointed as Centaurus’s general manager of operations, based in Belo Horizonte. Moura’s experience through his career has included the management of in-house and external engineering services, project development and overall operational management. He was previously chief operating officer and general manager of operations at MMX Mineracao, where he was responsible for managing two large Brazilian iron ore mines with combined production of 9.5Mtpa, including a team of over 700 employees and 1300 contractors. He also oversaw the study and statutory approvals phase for planned developments that will feed into the MMX Sudeste System, where production is planned to increase to 34Mtpa by 2016.
Prior to MMX Moura was general manager of the Chapada copper mine for Yamarna Gold and held a number of senior positions with the Brazilian mining giant Vale.
Antonio Celso Pereira, a business development executive with more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing with several leading multinational groups in Brazil, as well as extensive public sector experience, has been appointed as Centaurus’s general manager of logistics, based in Salvador.
Pereira was previously director for commercial operations and business development at the Bahia Public Port Authority, which has responsibility for the Port of Ilhéus – the proposed export port for Centaurus iron ore.
WEST Africa gold and uranium explorer Burey Gold has a new managing director and CEO, geologist Klaus Eckhof, who replaces Bruce Stainforth. The latter is staying on as executive director in charge of exploration.
Eckhof worked for Mount Edon Gold Mines as business development manager before it was acquired by Canadian miner Teck. In 1994 he founded Spinifex Gold and Lafayette Mining, and then in late 2003 he established Moto Goldmines, which acquired the Moto gold project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
THE appointment of experienced Australian mining executive Michael Gloyne as chief operating officer is seen as another step towards development of Canadian-based PMI Gold’s flagship Obotan gold project in Ghana. Gloyne, a mining engineer with over 25 years’ experience in developing mining projects from bankable feasibility study, design and development through to production, will spearhead completion of the definitive feasibility study at Obotan.
Also in the February 8 - 14, 2012 edition
- AFRICA
- Avonlea’s year of the dragon
- Jungle souvenirs get tongues wagging
- BREAKING NEWS
- ABM welcomes APAC
- Albanese maintains bullish stance
- Alcan hits Rio bottom line
- Altona on the board
- Aquarius feels pinch
- Avalon shake-up
- Avenue targets Rondonia tin
- Bligh agrees split with Blackcrest
- Blue Eyes FEED finished
- Boom times for supplier
- Centerra reserve increase
- Central Rand overcomes stoppage
- Cobre flows for Strategic
- CuDeco awards IndexEMS contract
- Cuervo builds Peru iron resource
- DNP progress for Regency
- Doray wins clearance
- Drilling to extend Achmmach
- Drills return to Matilda
- Eastern Iron takes on Nowa Nowa
- Emeco looks to Chile
- Exotic find for JV partners
- FMG signs MoU with IOH
- Frieda River boost
- GBM happy with sampling
- GC to boost Silvercorp
- Gold Anomaly hopes rise
- Green light for Cortona
- Harper joins Sumatra
- Herencia gets encouragement in Chile
- Jinchuan flags go-ahead
- Kagara to step up search
- Kumba gets Kolomela boost
- Lace restart now in prospect
- Leighton on good WICET
- Likuyu resource next month
- Ludowici contest heats up
- Macmahon bounces back
- Marathon compensated
- Matilda to get back on track
- Mekong joins Southern in Cambodia
- MMG advances on Anvil
- Monadelphous record
- Mt Carrington resource boost
- Mulroney joins Venturex
- Murchison clears path to sale
- Murchison exit complete
- New $US4.5B spend on Escondida
- New life for Atticus
- Optimum lift
- Osisko moves into Nevada
- Padbury, Aurium join forces
- Pinto Valley restart
- Predictive hits Bonsiega target
- Prosperity signs
- Rio's ore-some target
- Rox posts Mt Fisher resource
- Scotgold moves to higher ground
- Shandong will buy Tonkolili iron
- St George confirms gold trend
- Talisman aims to get lucky
- Toro out of Woods
- TriAusMine to start Woodlawn drilling
- UCL unimpressed
- Vale awards Keller contract
- Vale to grow fertiliser profile
- WCP moves on Al Hariqah
- Western Areas' revenues slump
- Yamarna gets positive review
- COAL
- Bell strikes a balance
- Sober coal warning from McCloskey
- EXPLORATION
- Falcon ready to soar again
- FINANCE
- Mega projects will test BHPB’s mettle
- Past gives BC Iron different view of the future
- Remaking Exco too
- FORUM
- Selling the story
- FROM THE CAPITAL
- Big deals may signal end of cycle
- GOLD
- Ampella still on track, says analyst
- Copler saving Alacer blushes
- Gold group-think needs to change
- MINING IT
- Mincom becomes Ventyx
- Partnership work rounds out Cube offering
- Report points to IT integration challenge
- PEOPLE
- Richards contemplates next step for IronClad
- RUSSO'S RULES
- All this inking gets you thinking
- TECHNOLOGY
- Automation will cut jobs, but then again …
- VIEW FROM THE WEST END
- Rumble in the jungle
