Roger Strickland

Experience

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  Bow River Diamond Mine

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  Plant Metallurgist

  Manage metallurgical accounting, plant operations improvement projects, fire training officier, occupational first aider, driver trainer (4WD).

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  Big Bell Gold Mine

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Plant Metallurgist

  Operational and project metallurgy, water treatment, mines rescue

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  Nalco Australia

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2002

  Sales Representative

  Scale control, solids/liquid seperation (minerals processing and municipal water treatment), corrosion and biological control in water systems, improving flotation selectivity, SX optimisation, dust control.

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  EPA Victoria

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Field Officer

  Client managment, complaint investigation, project management, law enforcement

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  Eacham Shire Council

  Oct 2005 - Jan 2007

  Environmental Health Officer / Technical Services Officer

  Compliance and complaint investigations.Education and training of staff and publicDisaster response planning and implementation.Post-disaster management of water treatment and waste.Inspection and sign off on private development works.Develop and implement a risk management system for council assets.

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  Ascentis Operations

  May 2007 - Dec 2007

  Metallurgist/Site Supervisor

  Technical management of processing and management of team employed to operate and maintain processing plant

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  Kagara

  Dec 2007 - Jan 2010

  Plant Metallurgist

  Monitor and optimise performance of two flotation plants.Emergency response preparation and team leader.Manage company wide radiation safety and practices.

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  SNF FloMin

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010

  Technical Sales Representative

  Providing sales and technical support for Flomin products for flotation and solvent extraction.

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  Kagara Ltd

  Oct 2010 - Mar 2011

  Contract Commissioning Metallurgist

  Assist permanent personel with commissioning of flotation plant for Vomacka polymetallic ore

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  Ok Tedi Mining Limited

  Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

  Contract Project Metallurgist

  Optimise operations of concentrate regrind circuits.Improve operational performance of gravity gold circuit.Audit and improve plant water circuits to minimise external discharges.Review of process control with respect to operational requirements.As required trouble shooting and training.

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  Carbine Tungsten Ltd

  Mar 2012 - May 2012

  Manager, Metallurgy and Environment

  Technical oversight and process management for the tailings retreatment operations and future expansion into stockpiled and new ore treatment.Management of environmental compliance and ensuring the company implements best practice, and is successful when measured by the triple bottom line standard.Position was made redundant as operation was put on hold.

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  Mateo Solutions Pty Ltd

  Jul 2012 - now

  Operating in Australia and Papua New Guinea, providing consulting services to the minerals processing and water treatment industries, with focus on;-Project risk management-Metallurgical Support to operations-Specalist reviews of plant scale control, solids/liquid separation, and general water treatment programs.-Training and Assessing of personnel -Review of proposed processing and water treatment flowsheets-Commissioning support for minerals processing and water treatment plants-Risk managment audits Show less

  • Consultant Metallurgist

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Director & Consultant

    Jul 2012 - now
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  CST Lady Annie

  Jan 2014 - Feb 2015

  Senior Metallurgist (fixed term contract)

  Technical oversight of Heap Leach, Solvent Extraction and Electrowinning circuits. Focus on mineralogy and heap leach operations. Running of dump leaching trials and implimentation of innovative irrigation techniques. Provision of support and coverage as required to site and corporate management.

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  Glencore

  Mar 2015 - Nov 2018

  Senior Project Metallurgist

  Drive process improvement projects for the Pb/Zn concentrator.Manage project delivery teams.Manage the entire project delivery cycle from concept to handover to operations.

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  Tablelands Mining Group

  Apr 2019 - Jun 2022

  Senior Project Metallurgist

  Geometallurgical evaluation of mineral resources.Impliment best practice in the iron ore beneficiation industry to process and plant design.Pivoted the company to a tin focus.Geometallurgy, process design and plant design for tin processing.Co-ordination and analysis of metallurgical testwork programQAQC control of resource estimation for JORC 2012Radiation Safety Officer

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  New Porgera Limited

  Apr 2024 - now

  Senior Metallurgist - Projects

  Lead design, execution and delivery of processing improvement and capital projects for the processing department.Lead the plant debottlenecking studies and implementation of outcomes related to meeting LOM plans.Assist the manager and superintendents in the management of the metallurgical department and delivery of target outcomes.Mentoring and coaching of metallurgical department members.Lead the delivery and coaching of 10 Metcelerate participants.Assist delivery of safety program including being fatal risk champion. Show less