Daniel Donald Email & Phone Number

Perth, WA, AU

Perth

Providing expertise in mining operational and technical settings, including: Assessing corporate transactions and due diligence Operational and management support for clients Technical review of mine designs, scheduling and operational data Project Management services including Feasibility Studies

Perth, Australia

Managed the Perth Branch of an international software and consulting company.Main areas of responsibility were:* Management of a highly skilled multidisciplinary professional team* Business development, marketing and customer relationship management for the region* Leading the Australasian effort to introduce new enterprise-scale spatial database.

• Managed the mining operations at Leonora. Main areas of responsibility were:
• Ensuring a safe working environment was maintained.
• Setting and achieving budget production targets and project completion deadlines.
• Management of underground and open pit mining, with direct reports including Underground Manager and Open Pits Manager.Significant achievements in the role:
• Successfully established ore production in the Gwalia Deeps Project, including management of significant underground capital works and infrastructure establishment (including rapid decline advance over 500 vertical.
• Lead a Project Team tasked with establishing additional mill feed sources that subsequently established open pit mining in an accelerated timeframe involving planning, permitting, recruitment and community stakeholder.

Employed on a short-term contract to manage the Paulsens Mine. The role also involved leading a focused review of mining operations that created a framework for key operational improvements. The review included contractor performance, mining method selection, grade control, dilution management and technical standards.

Duties included liaison with third parties in the sale process of the operation. Technical and operational reviews were conducted interrogating ore reserves, costing and management structures.

Assumed operational management of all surface mining activities in 2006 including multiple concurrent open pits, tailings facilities and significant pumping infrastructure required for mining below the local salt lakes.Alternate Resident Manager for the multiple mine operation.

Promoted to the role of Resident Manager in 2005, managed the open pit gold mining operation, including a 1.2mtpa processing plant and multiple open pits. Sole Mining Engineer at site and responsible for budgeting, scheduling and contractor management. The operation involved mining at several open pits spread over a large tenement holding alongside an.

Managed an open pit gold mining operation, including a 1.2mtpa processing plant and 140 person accommodation camp

Responsible for management of an underground gold mine applying a mix of traditional hand-held stoping mining methods alongside modern longhole stoping.Improved profit margin by revising mining practices and employee relations, including ownership transition and subsequent modified employment agreements.

Developed long term plans and calculated mine reserve estimates for the Corporation, majority owned and managed by WMC Ltd.Assumed statutory management of underground mines in the Manager’s ad hoc absences. Initially employed as the sole Mining Engineer at the high-grade narrow vein Harlequin Mine, responsible for calculating mine reserves, developing.

Sole Mining Engineer at the Harlequin MineCalculated mine reserves, schedules and budgets, developed mine designs and monitored underground production

Successfully managed operational departments when Successfully managed operational departments when relieving Mine Superintendents and completed front line duties as an Underground Supervisor.Effectively performed various technical roles as Ventilation Engineer, Drill and Blast Engineer, and Planning Engineer during the mine’s expansion from a 1.5mtpa to.

Mba, Business

Full time study towards MBA, graduating in the top 25 of the 2010 cohort. Formal studies allowed consolidation of business skills and.

Grad Certificate, Business

B.Eng; Hons, Mining Engineering