I am a Civil Engineer who has specialised in Geotechnical Engineering and Design in Civil Engineering and Mining. Over the past 30 years, I have worked on, and led engineering teams involved in the design of open pit mines, railway cuttings, box cuts for tunnel portals and in pit crushers, other surface excavations, slimes dams and waste rock dumps, civil engineering tunnels, large hydropower caverns including large diameter surge shafts and surge chambers, mine tunnels, access and ventilation shafts, ore passes, and underground mining excavations including underground crusher caverns, workshops, and main dewatering sumps. I have also been involved in several mine closure studies, and led an investigation into the root causes of a recent major slope failure accident in a large open pit in South Africa.
I have been involved in projects located in South Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as in projects located in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Panama and Russia.
