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Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division officer nominees [Mining Engineering](Mining Engineering Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CHAIR RICHARD H. JOHNSON graduated from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1976 with a bachelor of science in chemistry. He started his career as an engineer-in-training at Magma Copper's San Manuel Arizona operations and later moved into a supervisory role. In 1981, he joined Freeport-McMoRan and worked as its mill manager in Nevada and Indonesia before transferring to Louisiana. There, he began his second career in project development and participated in the multiple expansions of Freeport Indonesia's process plant. He returned to Magma in 1992 in a senior management role in the Robinson project. After BHP acquired Magma Copper, Johnson left to join Aker Kvaerner Engineering as a project manager. While at Kvaener,he completed BHP'sTintaya SX-EW copper project in Peru and feasibility studies for an SX-EW project in Brazil for Vale. In 2003, he joined Newmont as director of projects for North America and worked in Nevada on the Leeville underground and Phoenix Mine expansion projects. Johnson rejoined BHP Billiton in 2006 in his current role as senior manager projects. He is responsible for providing project governance for major capital projects in the Americas. He has been a member of SME for more than 35 years and an is active member of the division, mainly in support of the plant design section. ASSOCIATE CHAIR ANTHONY K.M. STALEY graduated from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in 1997 with a B.S. in chemical and petroleum-refining engineering and a minor in business management and economics. Upon graduation, he worked as a process engineer in the semiconductor industry. In 1998, he received a grant from Kaiser Aluminum to attend graduate school at CSM. He received a masters degree in economics and business and a Ph.D. in metallurgy and materials engineering in 2002. During his graduate studies, he worked for the CSM Environmental Health and Safety Department, where he was OSHA-certified in hazardous waste operations and emergency response. In 2002, he joined Newmont Mining's technical services team as a senior metallurgist at the Malozemoff Technical Facility in Centennial, CO. He then worked for Rio Tinto as a senior engineer and Phelps Dodge as a superintendent. Staley ran the largest installed capacity copper SX/EW facility in the world at Freeport-McMoRan's Morenci operation. Staley is second regional vice chair and currently general manager of HorseHead Corp.'s new state-of-the-art zinc SX/EW facility in North Carolina. Staley was appointed to the SME Young Leaders Committee in 2004. He has also served in all officer positions with the Colorado local section and the Grand Canyon local section. He was chosen as an SME Local Section Hero (March ME, p. 63) for his efforts to revamp the Grand Canyon section's finances and to raise money for its scholarship program. He is a member of TMS, the American Chemical Society and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. FIRST REGIONAL VICE CHAIR MARK K. JORGENSEN earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Nevada-Reno. He has 30 years of experience in precious metals, base metals, engineering and construction. He has participated in the development of numerous projects from the design phase to final construction and operation. Jorgensen started his career as a plant metallurgist working for Placer US at the Cortez gold mine in Nevada and later worked at Homestake's McLaughlin Mine in California. He worked in engineering and construction for 13 years at Bechtel Corp. as a senior metallurgist and as a project engineer. He worked as a process manager for Newmont Mining Corp. and as a principal advisor for Rio Tinto in Salt Lake City, UT. He recently worked as a project manager for CH2M Hill in Englewood, CO. He is currently a principal consultant at Jorgensen Engineering and Technical Services (JE&TS). Jorgensen has served as chair of the Plant Design Committee and chair of the Comminution Committee for MPD. He has been the secretary/treasurer, vice president and president of the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA) and currently serves on its executive board as past president. He is the chair of the Executive Committee of the MPD subsection and a member of the board of the Colorado Local Section. SECOND REGIONAL VICE CHAIR MICHAEL S. MOATS is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. His current teaching and research focus is in hydroand electrometallurgy. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D. in materiMOATS als science and engineering from the University of Arizona. Moats has 20 years of experience in industry, research, consulting and academia. He is the author or co-author of more than 75 papers related to hydroand electrometallurgy, holds four patents and has served as an expert witness. He is the co-author of Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel, Cobalt and Platinum-Group Metals and Sulfuric Acid Manufacture, second edition. Moats coordinates the Copper Refinery Group, an industrial technical network consortium compromised of most North and South American copper refineries. He is the project leader for Amira's P705C Project-Improving Base Metal Electrowinning. Moats is the past chair of the Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division's (MPD) Separation Unit Committee and currently is a member of the MPD Outstanding Young Engineer Award Committee and the Education Sustainability Committee. SECRETARY-TREASURER D. ERIK SPILLER is vice president and principal metallurgical engineer with Tetra Tech and an appointed research professor at the Colorado School of Mines, the school from which he graduated. He is a Mineral and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA) qualified professional, as well as an SME registered member. He has 40 years of experience leading to senior and executive management positions in research, operations, equipment and engineering companies. His technical expertise and research focus is on mineral beneficiation in the areas of liberation by crushing and grinding and in a variety of particulate separation technologies. He lectures and directs graduate students in their research in these topics. He has worked on mineral projects in North America and in 16 countries around the world. Spiller is the author or co-author of 17 technical papers and book contributions in the field of process metallurgy and is co-editor of SME's Recent Advances in Mineral Processing Plant Design. He received the 2009 Richards Award for his achievements in furthering the art of mineral beneficiation and for facilitating the adoption of new technologies and mentoring younger professionals. He has served and chaired several SME committees, locally and nationally. He is active in the MMSA and the Extractive Metallurgical Society of Denver. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COORDINATOR JIM METSA is regional sales director Hard Rock Mining, U.S. for Weir Minerals North America in Denver, CO. Metsa received his B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1980. He has 33 years of experience in metallurgical processing, including domestic and international operations. He has been with Weir Minerals for 25 years. Metsa was president of the Mining, Metallurgical Society of America from 2009-2011 and chair of the Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division (MPD) subsection of SME's Colorado Section from 2003 to 2005. He continues to serve on the Colorado MPD Executive Committee. MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR SCOTT A. SHUEY graduated from Montana Tech in 1992 with a B.S. and M.S. in metallurgical engineering. After working for the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Salt Lake City, UT, Molycorp in Mountain Pass, CA and the Engineering & Mining Journal in Chicago, he returned to college to earn his Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 2006. Upon returning to industry at the Phelps Dodge/ Freeport-McMoRan Process Technology Center, Shuey was involved in technology development and commissioning/ startup of SX-EW, leaching and POX operations at properties in the southwest United States as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is currently senior technical advisor-hydromet at Newmont Mining in Englewood, CO. An SME member since 1998. Shuey is also a qualified professional member of the Mineral and Metallurgical Society of America and has served on a number of local and national SME committees. (c) 2014 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. |