Our Principal Consultants are supported by an experienced, flexible, distributed team with specialist technical, operations, engineering and project-delivery skills. Full CVs are available on request, please use the contact form.
MineScope’s team offers a comprehensive range and depth of mining experience:
Leadership Team
Michael Davis
Head of Consulting
Michael has over 35 years’ experience in the design and operation of mineral processing projects and has a strong understanding of the full project life cycle from discovery, development, design, commissioning, operations, through to closure.
Royce McAuslane
Head of Delivery
Royce has over 25 years’ experience in delivering technically and financially robust studies and projects for precious and base metal projects in a range of greenfield and brownfield locations across Africa, Asia and Australia.
Claudia Van Dijk
Head of Finance, People & Culture
Claudia began her career in finance as a commercial banker for a “Big 4” bank, but after a number of years Claudia took the decision to leave the corporate banking world behind and enter private enterprise, joining a private global software business. She has not looked back.
Delivery Team
Erin Arvidson
Senior Consultant - Process
Erin has over 15 years' experience in mining operational work, including metallurgical testwork management, operational optimisation, project management, and technical writing and reporting for a number of mining companies in Australia. She has commodity experience in iron ore, gold/copper, nickel sulphide and diamonds.
Adam Bird
Lead Consultant - Process
Adam is a metallurgist and process engineer with 15 years’ experience in engineering design, mining operations, project management and consulting roles across gold, copper, zinc, lead and iron ore projects based in Australia, Canada, Europe, north & central America, and west Africa.
Stephen Green
Principal Consultant - Process
Stephen has over 35 years’ experience in operation, production and technical services roles for state-of-the-art base metal concentrators and for large capacity, low-grade gold plants.
John Haywood
Principal Consultant - Geology
A geologist with over 35 years of industrial experience in Australia, Africa and South America, with extensive experience in operational mine geology, mineral resource estimation, brownfields exploration, management, mining studies and project evaluation.
JP Kelmar
Senior Consultant - Process
JP is a chemical engineer with over 15 years’ experience in mineral processing in the Americas and Australia. JP has developed skills across a wide range of engineering, and has in depth knowledge of alumina processing and solid/liquid separation.
Shane Miller
Principal Consultant - Studies
Shane is a Study Manager with an extensive background in metallurgy, who has developed expertise in study leadership, tailings management, and process engineering over the past 25 years. He has a range of commodity experience, including iron ore, lithium, boron, and gold.
Ian Mitchell
Principal Consultant - Process
Ian has over 35 years of processing experience in the mining industry with an emphasis on gold, copper and nickel extraction, including nearly 20 years of management experience & a decade of operational/technical roles working at a number of minesites around Australia.
Ronél O'Connell
Senior Consultant - Process
Ronél is a highly-experienced testwork manager with a thirty year career providing a wide range of metallurgical support services, both in house and working for a large testwork laboratory, based in South Africa but working across the continent.
Graham Rigo
Principal Consultant - Studies
Graham is a Chemical Engineer with over 15 years' experience in mineral processing and hydrometallurgy. Graham has held a variety of roles, including study management, supervisory, on-site operational, and executive management positions for projects & operations based in Australia, south-east Asia, Africa, & Latin America.
Riaan Venter
Lead Consultant - Process
Riaan is a chartered chemical engineer with over 25 years’ experience in mineral processing and hydrometallurgy in multiple countries around the world.
Leigh Wardell-Johnson
Principal Consultant - Studies
Leigh is resources professional with over 30 years’ experience across the broader mining industry. He has held senior metallurgical, study, project, technical, commercial, and management roles. His commodity experience includes lithium, tungsten, iron ore and gold.
Esme Wilmot
Lead Consultant - Process
Esme is a plant & project metallurgist & process engineer, with over 20 years’ experience in operations and project development. She has experience in lithium, nickel, gold, iron ore and copper/lead/zinc processing plants in Australia, China, and Indonesia.
Dean Young
Principal Consultant - Process
Dean is a process engineer with over 20 years' experience in the mineral processing industry. He has worked on all stages of study management, and of project management from design and construction through to commissioning and operations. He has experience on multiple projects in Australia and overseas, in the Dominican Republic, Papua New Guinea, Spain and Guatemala.
