John Monhemius Email & Phone Number

Emeritus Professor John Monhemius, BSc, MASc, PhD, CEng, FIMMM, held the Roy Wright Chair in Mineral and Environmental Engineering at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, until December 2004, when he retired from full-time academic work. For the last four years of his career at Imperial College, he was Dean of the Royal School of Mines. In 2009, he joined the Board of Anglo Asian Mining plc, a junior gold mining company with assets in Azerbaijan.Professor Monhemius has more than 50 years experience of academic and industrial research and development in hydrometallurgy and environmental control in mining and metallurgical processes, particularly in the management of toxic wastes and effluents, and he has acted as a consultant to many large mining and chemical companies. From 1979-96, he was technical advisor to the Hydrometallurgy R&D group of Interox Ltd, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hydrogen peroxide. He has published over 150 papers in scientific and technical journals and conferences and has supervised more than 30 PhD students. He was a co-founder and director of Consort Research Ltd., a consultancy specialising in gold and base metal ore processing. In 1994, he received the Gold Medal of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy for research into the extraction of gold and in 1995, the MIRO John Phillips Medal for innovation for the development of methods for the disposal of arsenic.Since joining Anglo Asian Mining as a non-executive director, he has helped the company develop from a simple gold ore heap leach operation to a multi-mine complex with flexible processing facilities, comprising heap and agitation leaching, flotation and SART processing, producing doré gold and copper concentrates.

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