Craig Thomas Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, QLD, AU

London, GB

• Endeavour's Mana Gold Operation in Burkina Faso consists of a 2.7Mtpa CIL processing plant treating ore from two underground mines and one open pit operation. Site headcount was approximately 1500 people.While.
• Achieved zero LTI's and reduced Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) by 50% year-on-year.
• Delivered inaugural site audit compliance with Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs).
• Re-designed and then commissioned a new underground mine, reducing go-forward capital development cost by more than US$30M, reducing ore haulage costs by 12%, and accelerating stope ore production.
• Determined the hidden cause of major uncontrolled overbreak, dilution and ore loss in secondary stopes in the older underground mine and implemented a mine design solution to regain control.
• Developed & implemented robust client-side contract management practices for use with the incumbent underground contractor, and mobilised a second contractor while ensuring similarly robust contract management.

Brisbane, QLD, AU

• Aurelia's Peak mining operation near the town of Cobar consists of an 800ktpa processing plant with gravity, intensive leach, flotation, and CIL processing steps producing gold bullion and copper, zinc, and lead.
• Reduced total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) by 50% over two years.
• Commissioned commercial production from the new Kairos mining zone and obtained government permitting approval for State Significant Development of the Great Cobar copper project.
• Corrected weak client-side contractor management practices with the incumbent underground mining contractor, delivering multi-million-dollar annual savings, and then later motivated and implemented a transition to.
• Improved the mine-to-mill scheduling approach to reduce the frequency of ore-type campaign changes from 2-3 times per week to once per six weeks, within the first six months, improving throughput, unit costs and.
• Designed and implemented a Management Operating System to significantly improve operational execution and compliance with quarterly mining and processing plans.

• Moved back to Australia at the beginning of 2019. Established myself as a freelance mining consultant while searching for the ideal next permanent role.
• Due Diligence assessments for private and ASX-listed companies involving projects in PNG and Africa.
• Project Management for two Feasibility Studies for a major Australian mining consulting house.
• Six month FIFO assignment at an operating underground copper mine in Africa assisting an Australian private equity owner to turn around poor operating performance plus assisting with project development planning at the.

The trip of a lifetime - a family of five driving our Toyota Landcruiser and camping our way from Cape Town to Cairo.

London, GB

I assumed the CEO position with the Company in a distressed state. Copper prices had fallen by more than 40% from the levels prevailing when Tschudi was funded and trading in the shares had been suspended due to financial uncertainty. I placed the underground mines on care & maintenance in the second half of 2015. In 2016 it became evident that groundwater.

London, GB

After closing its Namibian mines in 2008 due to low copper prices, Weatherly committed in July 2010 to restart two of its underground copper mines near Windhoek and to commence feasibility studies into developing the new Tschudi open pit heap leach SXEW copper project near Tsumeb.I was recruited in August 2010 as Chief Operating Officer for Weatherly, and.

The Ballarat Gold Mine operations consisted of an underground mine beneath the city of Ballarat, designed to provide 600ktpa of high grade ore to a gravity / intensive leach processing plant.Engaged as GM to drive the commissioning and ramp-up to commercial production at Ballarat, leading a team of 580 employees and contractors. Increased manning levels.

Iamgold Corporation - Mining Manager - Mupane Gold Mine - Botswana - Open Pit GoldPlacer Dome - Mining Manager - Kanowna Belle Gold Mine - Australia - Underground GoldPlacer Dome - Project Manager - Porgera Joint Venture - Papua New Guinea - OP + UG GoldWestern Metals - Mining Manager - Pillara Mine - Australia - UG Base MetalsPlacer Dome - Senior UG.