OUR TEAM

Dean Basile

Managing Director – Melbourne, Australia

Dean Basile has over 24 years of experience in the mining industry and over 16 years of experience at a management level and is the Managing Director of Mining One.

His career began at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines in Western Australia and he has worked at senior and mine management levels in Ghana and Peru, mainly covering surface mining techniques as well as extensive experience in long-term and strategic planning of gold and copper mines.

Dean has conducted work on and managed various feasibility studies; as well as the implementation of mining fleets at two green field operations. Dean has an intermediate level of written and spoken Spanish.

Dean Basile

Managing Director – Melbourne, Australia

Dean Basile has over 24 years of experience in the mining industry and over 16 years of experience at a management level and is the Managing Director of Mining One.

His career began at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines in Western Australia and he has worked at senior and mine management levels in Ghana and Peru, mainly covering surface mining techniques as well as extensive experience in long-term and strategic planning of gold and copper mines.

Dean has conducted work on and managed various feasibility studies; as well as the implementation of mining fleets at two green field operations. Dean has an intermediate level of written and spoken Spanish.

Gary Davison

Director/Senior Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Gary Davison has over 45 years of experience in the Australian Mining Industry. He has worked at senior mine management levels in Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales covering underground and surface mining techniques.

As well as a practical, hands-on approach, Gary has worked for a variety of clients including lawyers on expert witness cases, merchant banks conducting a high number of due diligence examinations and many other feasibility studies.

Gary is highly innovative in many areas having developed unique mine designs and infrastructure for difficult mines and he has a particular passion for ground support and improving the safety and efficiency of underground mining.

Gary has written and presented a variety of papers on mining topics.

He has visited mine sites and conducted work in Indonesia, Canada, Finland, UK, Sweden, Ghana, Canada, Central and South America, and China, as well all states and territories in Australia.

Marcus Jacobs

General Manager WA/Principal Mining Engineer – Perth, Australia

Marcus Jacobs has over 20 years of experience in operational mines, engineering studies and business consulting roles.

He started his career in open cut gold and iron ore mines in Western Australia, and in his career has had exposure to a number of commodities including: gold, iron ore, limestone, copper, lithium and tantalum.

He is a skilled project and study manager; providing leadership and coaching to achieve safety performance, schedule and budget targets.

Marcus is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM) and holds a Western Australian Quarry Manager’s Certificate of Competency.

Mike Botting

GM Underground Technical Lead, WA – Perth, Australia

Mike holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from the South Australian Institute of Technology (University of South Australia), a Western Australian First Class Mine Manager Certificate and NSW Mining Engineering Manager of Underground Mines Practising Certificate.

Mike has extensive operational, technical and management experience working with mine owners, consultants and mining contractors over the course of his career.

Mike has experience in a variety of hard rock mining methods ranging from narrow view open stoping, modified Avoca, cut and fill, room and pillar through to caving methods.

Mike has been involved in project feasibility studies and has successfully implemented both technical and operational business improvement initiatives.

Mike is well versed in first principle costing for underground mines, performance expectations, improving mine designs and schedules to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Darryl Dyason

Mining Manager, Underground – Melbourne, Australia

Darryl is an experienced Mining Engineer with over 24 years’ experience in the industry. He has worked on various project around Australia as well as Indonesia.

Darryl has managed all aspects of technical services and planning both in open pit and underground operations.

He is skilled in mine planning, drill and blast, ventilation, LoM designs, feasibility studies, Geotech, QA/QC, projects and surveying.

Darryl is also proficient in using mine planning software.

Cameron Farrington

Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Cameron is a Principal Mining Engineer who has a diverse background in mining. With over 20 years of experience as a mining professional, Cameron has become an effective leader in both operational and technical roles across a broad spectrum of commodities including Copper, Iron Ore, Gold, Diamonds and Coal.

Cameron holds an engineering degree as well as an MBA in finance which is supported by experiences ranging from Mining Engineer to front line management including his legislatively appointed role as the site SSE.

His skills and experience provide the ability to be an effective workforce leader as well as the ability to develop, implement and effect site safety management systems to establish a productive safety culture.

Cameron is a chartered professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM (CP)).

Joseph Tachie-Menson

Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Joseph is a Principal Mining Engineer with technical and operational expertise having worked in multinational organisations over the past 23 years.

Joseph’s experience includes equipment operation, fleet management, mine planning, business improvement, mine supervision, contract administration, and mine management. Expertise also covers mine financial modelling/costing, enterprise optimisation, explosives management, asset management and management of Tailings Storage Facilities. He has been involved in various feasibility studies.

Joseph is an efficient user of various mine packages including Minemax, Surpac, Talpac, XPac, Xeras, MineSched, Whittle, ArcGIS, Modular Mining and MineStar, Vulcan and Alastri.

Joseph holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mining and is a Chartered Professional of AusIMM and a member of SME. He is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree at the Melbourne School of Business.

Ievan Ludjio

Director/Principal Mining Engineer (Australia/Indonesia) – Brisbane, Australia

Ievan has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry.

He has undertaken a wide variety of roles within various technical teams including short/medium/long term planning engineering roles and production engineering roles.

Ievan also has extensive experience on a variety of projects and has been involved in the various study phases from concept study to feasibility study to project implementation for various commodities such as coal, gold, silver, copper, nickel, bauxite, iron ore, tin, limestone, phosphate, and rare earth minerals in various countries.

Ievan has a sound understanding of computerised 3D design work, dragline, and truck shovel operation, mine scheduling, budgeting, pit optimisation and cost modelling.

Ievan is well versed in various mining software packages, including Minex, MineScape, Surpac, Whittle, Vulcan, XPAC, 3D Dig and Talpac.

Ievan is a Chartered Professional (Mining) and Fellow of AusIMM, FAusiMM CP (Min), Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ), Competent Person Indonesia (CPI) for KCMI Ore Reserve Reporting for gold & base metals, primary & alluvial tin, and coal as well as Competent Person for Reporting of Ore Reserves Estimate for base metals in accordance with Indonesia National Standard (SNI 4726:2019).

Remon Sinaga

SE Asia Regional Manager/Principal Mining Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Remon has over 19 years of industry experience as a Mining Engineer and has spent 8 years working in Australia and another 11 years in Indonesia. During that time, he has worked in open pit coal and gold mining, as a mining consultant and for a blast service company in various areas from upstream to downstream mining chains.

Remon has a solid knowledge of mining coupled with a strong commercial acumen and has been involved in many critical project implementations. He is familiar with recent end to end digital solutions in mining industries and the dynamic markets.

Remon is efficient with mining software packages, mining cost models, cash flows and financial reporting.

Stephen Manning

Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Stephen is an experienced Principal Mining Engineer with 24 years of experience particularly in underground mine design and planning.

His experience covers all aspects of underground mine design and scheduling, stope design / optimisation and drill and blast design and mine cost / financial modelling.

He has a high level of proficiency in Deswik mining software, including Mineable Shape Optimiser (MSO), and experience with other mining software (Maptek Vulcan, Datamine, EPS).

Stephen has been involved with reserve estimation work, scoping studies, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies as well as multiple, operations-based mining engineer roles.

Philips Aggrey

Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Philips is a Principal Mining Engineer with 16 years of experience in mining engineering, specializing in strategic resource development, mine planning, innovation, and project management.

He has a proven track record in driving value creation through the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies and strategic initiatives.

Philips is an expert in leading cross-functional teams, managing large-scale projects, and fostering a culture of safety, sustainability, and innovation.

He is adept at delivering significant operational improvements, exceeding production targets, and enhancing shareholder value.

Adrian Hills

Principal Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Adrian is a Principal Mining Engineer with extensive underground technical experience along with contractor, management and corporate exposure gained over 20 years in the mining industry.

He is able to offer effective management of small to medium workforce through supportive and productive supervision of staff utilising his strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Adrian has superior organisational and planning ability, having implemented many Life of Mine plans, production schedules and financial models.

Wisnu Kardana

Senior Mining Engineer – Perth, Australia

Wisnu has more than 15 years of experience as a Mining Engineer, in several underground engineering roles. He has strong skill set in underground short, medium and long-term scheduling and with underground drill and blast.

He has experience dealing with various ground types, conditions, and underground mining methods, such as underground block caving, cut and fill, avoca and underground stope.

Steve Rempel

Manager Mining Engineering, North America/Senior Mining Engineer – Canada

Steve is a motivated Senior Mining Engineer with over 13 years of technical and operational experience.

He is a skilled project manager with experience in mining best practices for conventional and autonomous operations.

Steve has proven skills in enhancing productivity, efficiency, and bottom-line profitability with forward-thinking leadership.

Steve brings experience in years of fieldwork and is ready to take on challenges and provide the best solutions to all projects.

Marolop Yandry

Senior Mining Engineer – Perth, Australia

Marolop is a Senior Mining Engineer with 11 years of planning/scheduling, production and reporting experience in open pit coal mining. Block model geology, mineable reserves estimation, pit optimizations, concept studies, mining contractor supervision, JORC 2004 & 2012 reports and KCMI 2011 report. Competent in Minescape, Minex and Surpac software.

Seen Lee

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Seen has fifteen years of experience in the mining industry, with experience from greenfields pre production sites through to fully operational mining operations.

Seen’s multi disciplinary background in geology and geotechnical engineering allow for seamless communication within projects.

Seen’s core competencies include open pit medium to long term project investigations and evaluations, with particular expertise in pit optimisation, ground modelling and design.

Seen also has strengths in medium to long term mine planning, and is proficient in various mining software packages, including Whittle, Datamine, Surpac, MineSched, Mine 24-D and Deswik.

Seen has worked with a number of metalliferous commodities, including gold, copper and iron ore.

Phelan Trinh

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Phelan has more than eight years in the mining industry with expertise in pit optimisation, mine design and scheduling, cost estimation, and financial modelling.

His operational experience includes all facets of Production Engineering with core competencies in drill & blast and short / medium term mine scheduling.

Phelan is a well-rounded engineer having worked in a number of commodities including gold, silver, copper, tin and iron ore.

His core competency has been in the area of Mine Planning and Evaluation Lead on feasibility and Life of Asset planning studies.

Phelan is a competent user of MineSched, Surpac, Whittle, Deswik, Minemax Scheduler, Datamine and Vulcan.

Phelan also has experience in implementation of solutions in multi-objective optimisation problems such as ore-blending.

Chico Wall

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Chico has over 14 years of experience in underground mine planning and mining operations, he regards himself privileged to have been exposed to and experienced many facets of the industry.

Through his time in the industry, he has developed a passion and capabilities for high-level strategic planning, including Cut-off Grade calculations, Reserves calculations and reporting in compliance with the JORC Code.

To compliment this, he has a broad range of UG Ventilation experience from planning and modelling to operating chiller systems and managing ventilation project setups both on surface and underground.

Throughout his career, he has also gained a diverse operational experience, from operating various large machinery to managing contracts and contractors.

The above passion for mining stems from his agriculture upbringing. Not long into his mining career, he came to learn that mining and farming are quite similar. Each requires a high level of awareness towards safety, a multi skilled work force/support network and the ability to be dynamic for ever changing environments, all to achieve an attractive product.

Michelle Xu

Senior Open Pit Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Michelle has over 10 years of industry experience, with expertise in 3D mine design and planning.

Michelle has assisted in completing numerous mining projects in Australia and China, as well as conducting Surpac training courses for various mining companies.

After joining Mining One, she has been involved in a number of prefeasibility, feasibility studies and Life of Asset planning.

She is a competent user of Surpac, MineSched, Whittle, Deswik, and Minemax Scheduler and a basic user of Minex and Datamine. Those tools give her flexibility in achieving high efficiency and enable her to find better solutions when conducting pit optimisation, mine design, mining and blending scheduling.

She is also fluent in English and is a native Chinese speaker.

Tegar Ksatria

Senior Mining Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Tegar is an experienced mining engineer with over 10 years of work in both national and international mining industries, covering copper, gold, and coal projects.

Skilled in underground mine planning, production optimization, risk management, and cross-disciplinary coordination (geology, geotechnics, hydrology, and environment).

He is experienced in multinational companies such as PT Freeport Indonesia, LKAB Sweden, and Merdeka Copper Gold Tbk.

Proficient in modern mining software (AutoCAD, Deswik, Microsoft Office) and certified in strategic planning, mining safety, and frontline supervision. Strongly oriented toward safety, efficiency, and sustainable mining.

Thomas Indrawijaya

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Thomas is a Senior Mining Engineer with over thirteen (13) years of experience in open pit mining with exposure in various projects and operations.

Thomas has been involved in a number of mining studies across a broad spectrum of commodities such as coal, gold, copper, iron ore, and quarry.

He has developed a strong knowledge of open pit mining including mine planning (short/medium/long and Life of Asset Planning), strategic planning and pit continuation project, pt and dump designs, pit optimisation, mine scheduling, fleet selection, haul road modelling and analysis, production reporting, project cost analysis, financial modelling, and technical reporting. He also has strong operational knowledge and experience as a truck and shovel engineer across several coal and gold mines as well as quarries.

Thomas is a competent user of many mining software packages including Vulcan, Surpac, Studio 3, Mine 2-4D, MineScape, Talpac, Xact, MineSched, Whittle, Deswik, Alastri Packages (Spatial Conformation and Haul Infinity), AutoCAD and Rocscience.

Mwenzi Lungu

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

A dedicated mining engineer with over eight years of hand on experience in the mining industry in both operational and corporate roles, specialising in the optimisation of efficient mine design and planning from short term to life of asset.

Adept to problem solving, Mwenzi is able to use her previous experience and understanding of sustainable mining practices to ensure operational timelines and budgets are met.

Skilled in presenting technical data and project updates to senior leadership, effectively communicating information to non-technical stakeholders, and influencing decision making.

With a strong background in working with Multi-disciplinary team, Mwenzi is confident in her ability to contribute to organisation success.

Bakhtawar Hashmi

Senior Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Bakhtawar is a Mining Engineer with over 6 years of experience as a technical services professional across underground gold mining and mineral sands mining.

Through her experience, Bakhtawar has acquired proficiency in the use of mining software: Deswik Suite, Datamine Aegis, Surpac, Ventsim and MS Office suite and worked as an effective team member and team leader applying excellent communication, problem solving and organization skills.

Bakhtawar has experience in underground production and planning including drill and blast design, short term scheduling, lateral development and stope shape designs, 3 monthly RMP schedules and ventilation surveys.

Bakhtawar has experience leading cross functional teams undermine technical services, project management and site contractor management.

Gloria Asamoah

Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Gloria is a Mining Engineer with in-depth knowledge of and hands-on experience in surface mine planning and operations, and underground mine operations, with over ten years of working experience.

She has expertise in the use of specialised software for mine scheduling, mine design, mine optimisation, and mine operations (drill and blast, load and haul, and dispatch).

Gloria has skills in business improvement, project evaluation, economic analysis of mine design, mine safety and reporting. She is a great team player and highly goal oriented.

Gloria has expanded her metallurgical knowledge by working with a mineral processing consulting firm, giving her greater understanding of whole plant planning, metal extraction and optimisation for higher returns.

Benjamin James

Mining Engineer – UK

Benjamin has 13 years’ experience in the hard rock underground industry, predominantly in the gold sector. 10 years associated with open stoping, 1 year bulk underground mining and 2 years with early-stage project development.

Ross Dickinson

Mining Engineer – Perth, Australia

Ross is a Mining Engineer with over 7 years of experience in production and technical services in underground mining operations and SBR shaft sinking.

He has an aptitude for technical and analytical tasks, with drive and attention to detail.

Ross is a good communicator, also capable of leading production teams with the goal of improving safety, well-being, and productivity.

Ning Xu

Underground Mining Engineer – Canada

Ning is a results-oriented underground mining engineer with P.Eng (registered with Professional Engineers Ontario), specializing in hard rock underground mining across diverse commodities.

With hands-on experience at multiple mine sites, she has developed extensive expertise in underground operations.

Since joining Mining One, she has contributed to projects such as Pre-Feasibility Studies (PFS), Feasibility Studies (FS), scoping studies, and due diligence assessments etc.

Ning has developed a level of proficiency in a range of mine planning software, including Deswik, Amine, and Promine. She also has exposure to Datamine, Aegis, WaveView, Shotplus, Ventsim, and Whittle, enabling her to deliver efficient and data-driven solutions for mine design and scheduling.

Volga Massang

Mining Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Volga is a Mining Engineer with 6 years of experience in open pit mining, particularly in gold and copper commodities.

Strong background in short/medium term mine planning/scheduling, pit & dump design, dry-wet season outpit project, mine production and reporting.

Volga also has experience in mining contractor supervision.

Qualifications include proficient in operating software Surpac, AutoCAD, MineSched, MineSight.

Zola Munkhbat

Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Zola is a mining engineer and qualified mine surveyor with over six years of operational and technical experience.

She was involved in several feasibility studies in Mongolia, performing cost and cashflow models.

At Mining One, Zola has focused her efforts on pit optimisations, mine design and scheduling and block model manipulation.

Zola is an efficient user of various computer packages including Micromine, Minesight and Surpac. She is also a competent user of RocSience 2D slope stability analysis tools.

Zola obtained her master’s degree in mining engineering technology at Federation University Australia, specialising slope stability investigation.

Brett Cosgriff

Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Brett is an underground mining engineer with 7 years of experience in underground metal mines throughout Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria.

Brett has strong operational experience, having completed underground time on crew for 14 months in pursuit of an Underground Mine Manager’s Ticket as well as 6 months as an underground shift boss.

Brett is experienced in most facets of mining engineering, including drill and blast, long and short-term scheduling, ventilation, backfill, and risk assessment.

Edward Cooke

Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Edward studied MSc Mining Engineering at the Camborne School of Mines and also holds a bachelor’s in Geology. His education has included subjects such as Excavation and Geomechanics; Mine Design and Planning; Project Management; Advanced Structural Geology; and Engineering Geology. For his dissertation, Edward produced a preliminary economic assessment of a zinc-lead orebody, involving underground geotechnical analysis, cut-off grade optimisation, design work in Deswik and cash flow analysis.

Yanic Liu

Mining Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Yanic is an experienced mining professional with a strong background in mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, open pit design and related fields.

He recently completed a Master’s degree in Mining Engineering, enhancing his understanding of the mining value chain and its impact on operations.

Yanic has a proven track record of collaborating in diverse teams to deliver results under tight timelines and is passionate about exploring new methodologies and technologies.

James French

Manager, Geotechnical – Sydney, Australia

James is a motivated mining professional with diverse operations and project development experience in Australia and overseas.

His 20 years’ experience includes delivery of early phase studies, planning & execution of development projects and management of operations.

He has had a broad exposure to surface and underground settings in hard and soft rock geology, including civil earthworks design and construction, across a range of commodities including gold, copper and zinc.

James’ exceptional work ethic, strong technical competencies and practical approach enable him to be a proactive and adaptable leader, who thrives in a team dynamic and promotes a strong performance culture aligned to business objectives and organisational values.

Kevin Dugan

Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Kevin Dugan was one of Mining One’s founding directors and Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer.

Kevin has over 45 years of experience throughout Australia and overseas, including 11 years at the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC).

He has had extensive experience in the practical aspects of rock and soil mechanics covering major hydroelectric projects, pumped storage schemes, dams, tunnels and most of Australia’s large mining projects, (e.g. Olympic Dam, Northparkes, Century Mine, Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Mines (Pilbara)). This work has covered all states of Australia and over 15 countries overseas.

His mine geotechnical experience covers the geotechnical input and peer review on major projects from conceptual to bankable studies and detailed design.

He has also been retained as a peer review consultant on a wide range of projects, including numerous due diligence technical audits and expert witness roles of major mining projects (both coal and metal). Examples include Freeport Gold Mine, Beaconsfield Gold Mine, Northparkes, Pike River shaft collapse, Latrobe Valley mines (various) and WorkSafe Victoria.

Kevin’s experience in the mining industry includes surface and underground mines, both coal and metalliferous. Typically, it has involved the provision of technical advice and appraisals, the conduct of conceptual studies, bankable feasibility studies and reviews of mine operations.

David Lucas

Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Open Pit – Melbourne, Australia

David Lucas is a mining geotechnical specialist with over 35 years of experience in mining and civil geotechnical engineering, of which nearly 30 years have been in mining in Australia and South-East Asia.

He is a specialist in slope stability in open-cut mining, with considerable experience in rock and soil slopes, overburden dumps and stockpiles, in a wide range of hard rock mines, coal mines and quarries.

With a first degree in geology, he is skilled at understanding and interpreting geological processes and bringing geological knowledge to solving geotechnical challenges.

His on-site mining experience includes 12 years in site-based operational roles where he provided practical advice on slope stability, geotechnical hazard management, and failure remediation.

His consulting experience since 2005 has included design applications for all stages of mining from scoping and feasibility studies, operational mines, and mine closure studies, risk-based stability assessments, and communicating technical concepts to key stakeholders including regulatory authorities and the public. He also specialises in high level geotechnical reviews of mining operations.

David is a registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) and Victoria and is a chartered professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM (CP)).

Peter Cepuritis

Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Underground Manager – Brisbane, Australia

Peter has more than 30 years of experience in the mineral resource and engineering sectors for a variety of organisations including research, consulting and engineering, and mining corporations.

Throughout his career he has been responsible for planning and managing civil and mining project studies from initial site investigations, analysis and design, through to operational risk assessments, due diligence, audits/reviews, and project closure.

He has experience in Australia, the Americas, and the Middle East, with projects ranging from conceptual studies through to feasibility and operations experience. Peter also has specific experience in block and sublevel caving projects in both North and South America.

Peter has dedicated a significant portion of his career in consulting, providing engineering solutions to international corporations, gaining a reputation for adding value and providing innovative solutions whilst maintaining projects within budget and schedule.

Jeff Price

Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Jeff Price has over 30 years’ experience in mine operations, consulting engineering and research for civil and mining projects.

His expertise includes review, design implementation and rationalisation, feasibility investigation and design for open pit mines, GIS geohazard and risk evaluation, waste dumps and mine infrastructure. He also has global experience in complex numerical modelling and field implementation for slope depressurisation and rock mass characterisation for open pit and underground mining for projects.

Jeff has been involved in slope design for metallic and industrial minerals and operational geotechnical design review or audit in Australia and overseas.

Jeff has published on mining geotechnics, engineering in weak and weathered rock and researched the role of fracture flow on the behaviour of rock masses.

Additionally, Jeff has spent over 5 years providing corporate governance and assurance on geotechnical risk and business improvement opportunities for 5 global base metal operations across. This has involved significant liaison on risk and business improvement between with site and corporate management teams.

Michael Bijelac

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Michael has over 24 years of geotechnical experience in underground and open-cut metalliferous and coal mines.

The majority of this experience has been focused on consulting services to the mining industry, from geotechnical logging/data collection, secondment to sites for operational support assistance to mining studies from scoping to feasibility levels.

Michael has considerable experience in numerical modelling and slope stability analyses and has extensive operational and design/analysis experience in the geotechnical field.

Dr. Kyuseok Woo

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Canada

Kyu is a senior geotechnical engineer with over 17 years’ research and consulting rock engineering experience.

He gained his PhD from the University of British Columbia, where his research project encompassed a range of rock engineering and block cave mining challenges.

Post Ph.D, Kyu has performed rock mass characterization, empirical analyses, and advanced 2D/3D numerical analyses for various mine sites located around the world for open pit and underground mining operations.

Kyu has published a number of technical papers associated with the numerical simulation and its application to mining.

Selcuk Erol

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Selcuk is an experienced Mine Geotechnical Engineer with fifteen years of worldwide experience. This includes work in Laos, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and throughout Australia.

He has experience in both on-site and consulting roles, delivering underground operational support, geotechnical investigation and studies, technical reviews and audits. This work has covered not just mine work but also major infrastructural such as shafts.

Selcuk has contributed to both static and dynamic ground support design and ground control management of deep seismic underground mines. He is interested in gaining further exposure to geotechnically challenging underground mine projects.

Raymond Mateveke

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Perth, Australia

Ray is a highly skilled geotechnical engineer with over 14 years of geotechnical engineering and 8 years of mining engineering experience. A total of 22 years of technical, practical, and commercial experience gained in mining and consultancy environments.

He has extensive knowledge and expertise in various mining environments, including shallow, intermediate, and deep-level mining, covering narrow tabular hard rock and massive mining operations.

Ray has a proven track record of managing key projects from inception to completion, focusing on ensuring optimal performance, safety, and sustainability.

Ray is proficient in 3D numerical modelling, underground geotechnical analysis, shaft and support design, ground support design, and due diligence studies. Detail-focused, flexible and resourceful with the ability to effectively deliver within required performance targets.

Dr. Yousef Abolfazlzadeh

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Canada

Yousef is a ground control and rock mechanics specialist with substantial professional and academic experience in analysis and interpretation of mining induced seismicity.

Yousef holds a PhD in mining induced seismicity and a master’s.

Yousef joined Mining One as a senior geotechnical specialist in 2021. In his previous jobs, he was involved in various aspects of ground control engineering, seismicity and rock mechanics and worked with seismic data from some of the deepest hard rock underground mines in the world.

His projects have included seismic array design, system optimization, seismic source parameter and hazard analyses and re-entry protocols.

Yousef is the founder of TVSeminars Inc., which is a platform for delivering online mining/geotechnical seminars.

Richard Shellam

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – UK

Richard is a chartered engineer with 12 years of geotechnical experience across open pit and underground mining projects worldwide, including the UK, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia.

He combines operational and consulting expertise with strong skills in geotechnical data collection, rock mass characterisation, and the use of modelling software for pit and dump design.

Proficient in Python, Richard leverages data-driven analysis and visualisation to handle large mining datasets.

He also excels in geotechnical risk management, department leadership, and promoting safety and professional development through mentoring and training.

Gerson Tappang

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Gerson is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer who has over 12 years experience in the industry.

He works well independently as well as in a team. Gerson is highly motivated, has strong leadership skills with good communication and organising ability.

Dr. Karim Bavil

Senior Geotechnical Specialist – Canada

Karim is an experienced Senior Geomechanical Engineer with more than 10 years experience in the geotechnical industry.

Skilled in rock mechanics, tunnel design, numerical simulation and slope stability.

Karim has hands-on experience with geotechnical data collection and site characterization. He is experienced in cost analysis and Project Management Plan preparations.

Didy Ramli

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Didy is a Mining Geotechnical Engineer who has over nine years of experience in the mining industry based on mine sites, which includes exploration (greenfields and brownfields), production (open pit and underground) and technical roles.

She started her career as a Geologist and her operational experience encompasses various roles in the Hunter Valley and Bowen Basin and more recently Savage River Open Cut Mine.

Didy possesses extensive experience in geological modelling, resource reconciliation, geotechnical highwall and overburden mapping, geological structural interpretation and exploration, which is supported by substantial stakeholder engagement; of which has generated significant culture and business performance improvements on site.

Simon Jackson

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – UK

Simon is a Mining & Geotechnical Engineer with over 6 year of experience.

He has worked on a variety of open pit and underground mining projects, at all development stages, following completion of his Master’s degree at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM).

Simon’s experience has included the completion of detailed numerical modelling for operational challenges, geotechnical design studies, open pit/underground optimisation and design, mine scheduling, and cash flow forecasting. To date, this work has covered metalliferous mining projects across Australia, Europe, Russia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Botswana, and Kazakhstan.

Amir Rostami

Geotechnical Engineer – Canada

Amir is a self-motivated, adaptable, and deadline-driven Geotechnical Engineer with 10 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. He is a valued and dedicated team member of several multidisciplinary projects and possesses diverse skills and experience in Geoscience, Mining and Petroleum engineering.

Amir is skilled in Resource modelling and Mine stability evaluation with strong knowledge in Geostatistics, Rock mechanics and Seismic. He is also skilled in Mine designing from Data analysis to Mining cost optimization and related software such as Surpac, Amine and Whittle.

Amir holds a Masters in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston.

Christopher Mears

Senior Geotechnical Engineer – UK

Christopher is a Senior Consultant and Chartered Geotechnical Engineer with over 7 years’ experience and expertise in geotechnical data collection, rock mass characterisation, geotechnical risk assessment and geotechnical mine design.

Richard Heath

Geotechnical Engineer – UK

Richard is a geotechnical engineer with several years’ experience in geotechnical data collection and analysis as well as business development.

After completing an MSc in Applied Geotechnics at Camborne School of Mines with distinction, he has worked on mine sites and geotechnical drilling projects all over the world including Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Eritrea, Finland, Turkey and Spain, with responsibilities ranging from collecting high-quality data himself, to training groups of local staff and overseeing the entire data-collection project.

Richard has performed office-based geotechnical analysis for more than 20 projects at all stages of the mining process, for both open-pit and under-ground mines.

George Shali

Geotechnical Engineer – Johannesburg, South Africa

George is a Geotechnical/Rock Mechanics Engineer with more than 4 years in medium and shallow level massive mining experience as well as experience in open pit mining. He is also experienced in mining hard and soft or weak rock formation, numerical modelling of mine workings and interpretation, provision of professional geotechnical input into mine planning & design.

George has comprehensive knowledge in mining methods such as Sublevel Open Stoping (SLOS) and developing short to medium term safe support plans based on collected, analysed geotechnical data and implementation.

Marwan Aziz

Hydrologist/Geotechnical Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Marwan has 3 years’ experience working on various mining projects, especially in geotechnical, hydrology, and engineering design.

He has strong practical, experience in slope stability evaluations, geotechnical modelling, engineering design, and hydrology modelling.

Marwan has experience in field work activity for both geotechnical and hydrology, using various software related to both geotechnical and hydrological work.

He is experienced in all aspects of Hydrogeological field work including well construction; slug test; water sampling and groundwater monitoring, river discharge measurements, rainfall simulator test, infiltration test, modelling rainfall-runoff analysis and modelling groundwater flow due to mine openings.
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Jarrod Warren

Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Jarrod is a Masters qualified Geotechnical Engineer with underlying Engineering Honours Degrees in Civil Engineering and Surveying.

Jarrod spent the first five years of his career working in open cut coal mines. He has held roles of Mine Surveyor and Site Geotechnical Engineer within this time.

Jarrod has specialist skills in Geotechnical design and operational support for large scale in pit waste rock dumps on steeply dipping foundations.

As a consultant Jarrod has worked in a range of commodities (Gold, Iron Ore, Coal and Base Metals) from the PFS level through to mine closure both domestically and internationally. His scope ranges from Geotechnical modelling, site inspections and audits, Geotechnical drilling campaigns and groundwater instrumentation install.

Adi Santoso

Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Adi is a highly motivated professional with over two years of experience in multiple open-pit operations who has been exposed to various geotechnical issues and mining challenges.

He is experienced in geotechnical data acquisition, drillhole planning and design, slope stability analyses, and practical knowledge of open-pit operations.

Ian Hulls

Geotechnical Services Manager – Melbourne, Australia

Ian has over 45 years of experience in the mining and civil industries. His mining experience covers both open pit and underground metalliferous and coal mines across Australia and overseas.

Ian offers a range of geotechnical skills including onsite geotechnical support, instrumentation design and installation, in-situ testing, stress measurements, cable and roof bolt load monitoring and cable and roof bolt pull out testing programs. He has carried out these tasks at Australian mines such as Sino’s Iron Cape Preston Mine, WMC Mount Keith Mine, Kidston Gold Mine, Telfer Gold Mine, Endeavor Mine, Ballarat Mine, Cadia Mine, NorthParkes Mine; as well as overseas mines like Chatree Gold Mine, Thailand, Aguas Tenidas Mine, Spain and Porgera Mine, Papua New Guinea.

John Surman

Geologist – Melbourne, Australia

John is an experienced Consultant Geologist with over 40 years in the industry. He has vast and extensive experience in Australia and overseas including Egypt, Eritrea, Sumatra and South Africa.

John’s recent experience as Geotechnical Field Manager & Team Leader in the Pilbara region on various geotechnical projects includes drilling program supervision, data quality control, logging standardization, geological interpretation, stratigraphic interpretation, optical and acoustic televiewer data acquisition and review.

John is strongly fieldwork oriented, boots on ground, hands on core. Extensive drilling experience. Broad commodities experience. Relates well to people in all walks of life. Enjoy teaching and mentoring as part of the job. Meticulous, thorough, self-motivated. Wide ranging geological & science knowledge.

Roald Dunlop

Geologist – SA, Australia

Roald Dunlop is an Engineering Geologist with significant experience in Engineering Geology and Geology roles. He is currently based in South Australia.

Roald has worked at a multitude of Australian mining operations and exploration projects. Some of these include, Doolgunna, Yandi iron ore (BHP), Pilbara iron ore (FMG), and Olympic Dam (BHP).

Roald’s experience covers various senior, geology and geo-technician roles and covers a multitude of geological and geotechnical site and field investigation programs.

Dale Herrick

Senior Engineering Geologist – Melbourne, Australia

Dale is a Senior Engineering Geologist who has over 20 years’ experience in the Mining and Civil Engineering industry.

He specialises in Geotechnical Instrumentation, Geotechnical logging (soil and rock), ground support QAQC and testing, drilling and site investigations in both Civil and large-scale Mining environments, general mining and exploration activities.

His experience includes work on various sites including the Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati); Auckland Harbour (NZ); Snowy Hydro 2.0, Lake Cowal (NSW); North East Link (Vic); Wafi-Golpu (PNG); Perseverance, Havieron, Granny Smith, Norseman (WA); George Fisher, Black Star, Bowen Basin (QLD) and Henty, Savage River (Tasmania).

Davron Lu

GM China/Global Contracts Officer – Melbourne, Australia

Davron has over eight years of experience in contract laws, due diligence, project management, and geotechnical engineering.

Working on a variety of projects both on site and office based, her experience includes technical due diligence, project permitting review, environmental legislations, technical translation, project management and delivery, and client liaison.

She has been involved in many technical due diligence and has conducted various reviews on mining and environmental permits for projects in Australia, Canada, Chile, Philippines, etc.

She has also conducted geotechnical training for our clients in China to improve their mine safety and economics.

Further, Davron is a qualified Australian Lawyer, admitted as an officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She has been involved in several high-profile transactions with matters involving research and development tax claim, mergers and acquisitions, construction laws, etc.

Stuart Hutchin

Geology Manager – Melbourne, Australia

Stuart has over 23 years of experience in the Australian and international mining industry. He has worked in a wide range of gold, base metal, rare earth, bauxite, iron ore, diamond and emerald deposits.

He has experience ranging from grass roots exploration through to mine geology and resource estimation in both underground and surface mining operations. Stuart has also had extensive experience with project assessment, geological audits, project valuations (VALMIN) and due diligence studies on both exploration and mining projects.

He is a proficient user of Surpac, Vulcan and Micromine software packages.

He is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. He is deemed as a Competent Person and Qualified Person for JORC 2012 and NI43-101 resource estimate sign off covering multiple commodities and deposit styles.

Alex Lukomskyj

Principal Resource Geologist – Perth, Australia

Alex is a JORC Competent Person for Mineral Resources with over 15 years’ experience in resource, mine and exploration geology.

He has produced linear and non-linear resource estimates as part of mining studies and technical due diligence for clients across the globe.

Alex has worked on underground and open pit projects encompassing a range of commodity types and styles of mineralisation, with extensive experience in precious and base metals across the Western Australian Goldfields, Mount Isa Inlier, Lachlan Fold Belt and Laramide Arc in Arizona.

Anthony Reed

Senior Structural Project Geologist – Melbourne, Australia

Anthony a structural geologist with over 14 years of extensive mapping and interpretive experience in complex metamorphosed terranes, porphyry, sediment, and vein hosted Cu systems, chonolith, dyke hosted Ni and structurally modified VMS Zn/Pb.

Over the last 10 years Anthony has specialised in scientific analysis and interpretation of complex geological data, including surface and downhole structural, geochemical and geophysical data, in order to develop robust, resource ready, implicit 3D models for the purposes of asset acquisition, longevity and iterative geoscientific studies to expand orebody knowledge.

Muhaemin Sutami

Mineral Resource Geologist – Jakarta, Indonesia

Muhaemin is a highly experienced geologist with over 18 years in the Indonesia and international mining industry, covering in a wide range of commodities of gold, base metal, iron ore, silica sand, nickel laterite, bauxite, tin, and rare earth.

Proven expertise in exploration, project development, due diligence, resource estimation, mine geology, mineral valuation, merger & acquisition projects. Proven ability to assess geological data, optimize resource potential, and support strategic business decisions in the mining sector.

He is a member of AusIMM and is also a Competent Person in Indonesia CPI-IAGI qualified resource estimation of primary gold of epithermal and intrusion related deposits and exploration reporting and resource estimation of nickel laterite deposit.

Gayuh Putranto

Senior Geologist – Jakarta, Indonesia

Gayuh has been working as a geologist in the mineral exploration-development sector for over 13 years.

He has specialised in resource development of oxide gold, development on deep porphyry orebody knowledge, and regional exploration.

Specifically in gold (copper-silver) commodity, he has been assigned to various projects related to expertise in field exploration and management including field geology projects, project review and due diligence, drilling and core shed, QAQC, modelling, resource estimate, feasibility study, and KCMI/JORC-compliance reporting.

Louis Cohalan

Senior Project Geologist – Melbourne, Australia

Louis is a Senior Project Geologist with 11 years of experience within the mining and exploration industry.

Louis has worked for junior exploration companies in Canada and Australia, as well as a team of geoscience specialists at MMG Ltd. He has provided geological and implicit modelling expertise supporting operations worldwide.

Dr. Dylan Price

Geologist – Melbourne, Australia

Initially specialising in rare earth element mineralisation with a doctorate, Dylan has experience working in chemistry laboratories, 3D geological modelling (Leapfrog), geological and structural mapping, drill program management and QAQC protocol implementation. He mainly has experience working on Au and Cu deposits.

Grace Tambunan

Graduate Geologist – Jakarta, Indonesia

Grace is a fresh graduate in Geology from Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Grace has interest in geoscience and machine learning. So she is accustomed Microsoft Office (Ms. Excel, Ms. Power Point, Ms. Word), Mining tool (Surpac), Remote Sensing (ArcGIS, Global Mapper, QGIS), Slope Stability (Geostudio, Slide) and coding tools such as Python, VS Code. By joining organizational projects she is shaped as someone who has critical way of thinking, able to work under pressure, good time management, and teamwork skills.

Berry Casanova

Senior Hydrogeologist – Jakarta, Indonesia

Berry is a Senior Hydrologist and Hydrogeologist with over 15 years of experience working on various mining projects in Asia and Australia and some in Africa. He has completed hydro work for several open pit mines and underground mines.

His experience covers a wide range of hydro work, including hydrology/ hydraulic modelling; groundwater modelling; water and drainage management; sediment control; contaminant modelling; groundwater environmental study; surface water, and groundwater supplies with effective evaluations, models, and management plans. His experience in mining exploration and geological modelling makes his competence in the hydrogeology field more comprehensive.

As well as his practical experience, Berry has delivered many projects management in his experience, lead in many hydrology and hydrogeology projects, and several times led projects related to geotechnical works. He also has demonstrated his expert knowledge through training others in short courses covering material related to hydrology and hydrogeology modelling.

Peter Gribbin

Principal Hydrogeologist – Melbourne, Australia

Peter is a Chartered Professional Geologist with over 35 years of experience spread across the mining, civil engineering and environmental sectors in the fields of mineral exploration, mining engineering, geotechnics and hydrogeology.

The diversity of project experience gained throughout his career in Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and UK has allowed him to apply many of the branches of engineering geoscience in an integrated manner.

Following extensive periods in the mining industry in Africa and Australia, and in environmental regulation in the UK, Peter has been providing engineering and environmental consultancy services for the last 15 years supporting mining, major infrastructure, tunnelling, land development and water resource projects in Africa, Asia, UK, and the Australasia-Pacific region.

A key area of expertise is in Technical (environmental and hydrogeology) Due Diligence in relation to acquisitions, ASX listing, and the application of mining standards codes for new mining operations.

Rifki Rashad

Hydrogeologist/Geotechnical Engineer – Jakarta, Indonesia

Rifki is a Hydrogeologist with 5 years of experience. He has been involved in projects related to hydrology, hydrogeology and geotechnical expertise across Asia, Australia, and Africa including field investigations (field measurements, mapping, monitoring, drilling supervisions, and aquifer tests), project planning, GIS, modelling, mine water management, feasibility studies, and environmental impact assessments.

Previously working as a hydrogeologist for a gold mine company, he has developed several hydrological-hydrogeological monitoring programs, mine water management plan, and provided support for regulatory compliance programs.

Dr. Abouzar Vakili

Principal Geotechnical Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Abouzar is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer and numerical modelling specialist with over 15 years of experience in operations, geotechnical analysis, design and research.

His expertise is primarily in applying advanced analytical techniques for geotechnical engineering and design. He has worked on studies involving large open pits and deep, high stress underground mines.

He has authored more than 25 technical papers and articles and he is an AusIMM Chartered Professional and Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland.

Dr. Stephan Arndt

Head of Technology and Innovation – Brisbane, Australia

Stephan has over 25 years of professional experience in the industry.

He has worked in a global lead consulting role for Dassault Systèmes, working with major mining companies on digital transformation projects to deliver business value.

Throughout his career, Stephan has been managing, developing, and mentoring teams, focusing on geomechanics disciplines and mining. He has been part of global technology groups for software and R&D and gained experience as Director of Resources Engineering and Professor of Practice at Monash University.

For 20 years, Stephan has been performing geomechanics analysis and simulation for many of the world’s caving studies, including Rio Tinto, BHP, Vale, Newcrest, OZ Minerals, Freeport Indonesia, Debswana, and DeBeers.

William Gibson

Principal Geotechnical Engineer/Numerical Modelling Specialist – Perth, Australia

William brings over 40 years of experience in geotechnical, mining, and civil engineering, with deep expertise in numerical modelling and software development for rock mechanics.

He has led slope stability analyses for major open pit mines worldwide, including projects in Chile, Australia, Mongolia, and Peru, and has also assessed the stability of tailings dams, heap leach piles, and waste dumps under static and seismic conditions.

In underground mining, his work spans block caving analysis, pillar stability, and mine infrastructure interaction.

William has developed specialised geotechnical software and is proficient in tools like FLAC and FLAC3D.

Tom Styles

Principal Geotechnical Engineer – UK

Tom Styles is a chartered engineer with 14 year’s experience. He has a PhD on numerical modelling of fractured rock slopes and further post-doctoral research at universities in Canada.

Tom has a strong foundation in advanced numerical modelling, characterising and monitoring the rock mass, and general geotechnical support for open pit and underground mines, quarries, and green field sites.

His work as a consultant focuses on rock mechanics, with experience in terrestrial LiDAR and drone-based photogrammetry, as well as both satellite radar data, offering solutions for both data collection and high-resolution remote monitoring.

Tom has worked throughout Eurasia, Africa and Australia and North America, directing geotechnical site investigations and collecting data. His office-based analytical analyses and numerical modelling of ground stability, provides mine design parameters during feasibility and mine optimisation studies.

Tom is also the agent for Cavroc in Europe and Africa.

Trent Jolly

Principal Process Engineer – Melbourne, Australia

Trent is an experienced Process Engineer with over 14 years in project delivery, process optimisation and operations improvement. He has held a variety of site-based and global consulting roles focused on driving optimisation and efficiency of processing plants.

He has extensive experience across a range of commodities and processes, including gold and base metals mineral processing and hydrometallurgy. This includes studies from scoping to feasibility study level, as well as delivery, commissioning and optimisation of site projects and initiatives.

He has a strong interest in data analytics and using data to inform process changes and benefit evaluations.

More recent expertise has been developed in large-scale international mining acquisitions including technical due diligence and valuations.

Nathan Walpole

Senior Metallurgist – Melbourne, Australia

Nathan is a results-driven Process Engineer with 8 years of experience in mineral processing, pyrometallurgy, water management, and manufacturing.

Skilled in process commissioning, optimisation, and technical leadership in high-risk plant environments. Proven capability in furnace and smelter operations, with expertise in plant monitoring, root cause analysis, and risk-based decision-making under MHF standards. Experienced in cross-functional collaboration across operations, safety, and engineering systems.

Nandira Erninzafitri

Junior Metallurgist – Jakarta, Indonesia

A graduate of BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung with more than 3 years of experience in the gold mining industry.

Currently pursuing an International MSc in Sustainable and Innovative Natural Resource Management of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree Program affiliated with EIT Raw Materials, Majoring in Sustainable Processes.

Passionate about metallurgical process, metal extraction and recycling, resource recovery, and environmental conservation.