Mark Anfruns Sustainable Mining Business Improvement Email & Phone Number

Blair Athol Coal

Peak Downs Mine

Mackay, Australia

Taking my considerable experience in business improvement and the resource sector, I set up a consultancy offering:> Currently contracting to HSE Mining in the Position of Safety Officer> Rehabilitation, dragline, drill and blast, pre-strip, and mine layout design functions> Training, coaching and mentoring to graduate Engineers and Dragline Supervisors> Business improvement services to both mining and non-mining companies utilising Six Sigma and Lean methodologies> Targeted selection interview techniques to ensure that your prospective employee is the correct fit for your business

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Dragline pit design including dragline operational methods, volumetric calculations, scheduling, adherence to plan and monitoring> Liaising with mine planning staff and operational staff including Supervisors and Operators> Coaching, mentoring and supporting graduate Mining Engineers and SupervisorsInitiatives and key outcomes:> Successful redesign of dragline strip in highly faulted area> Development of graduate Dragline Engineers

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Managing the drill & blast design team, consisting of three Mining Engineers, one graduate Engineer and one administrative Technical Officer> Drill and blast designs> Scheduling and liaising with operational staff> Ordering of explosives> Improvement and cost reduction projectsInitiatives and key outcomes:> Improved ground fragmentation due to stem charges and drill pattern optimisation> Reformatting the D&B schedule from 3 months to 12 months> Identifying shortages in blasting capability, determine daily load rates to meet required blasted inventory> Development of graduate D&B Engineers> Cost reduction project to reduce the quantity of bulk explosives> Development of monthly re-forecast of annualised bulk explosives requirements> Management of AN Prill site inventory> Use of Six Sigma techniques to improve blast fragmentation> Installation of additional vibration and air blast monitors> Management of Aurizon Electrical sub-station vibration project

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Supervision of dragline field and design functionsInitiatives and key outcomes:> Dragline cable damage reduction> Coal exposure

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Strip design and ramp location from a 2-year to a 5-year timeframe> Management of 1 mid-term Mining EngineerInitiatives and key outcomes:> Successful management of DRE42 Operational Readiness project> Pit water storage volumes > Reduction of 600,000bcm of rehandle compared to peer’s design> Peak Downs Access road relocation and route location – initial stages

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Supervision of Dragline Operators> Development and implementation of safety programsInitiatives and key outcomes:> Dozer push> Implementation of dragline operator coaching by peers> Seconded as Dragline Superintendent (3 weeks)

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Managing the Dragline design team, consisting of three Mining Engineers> Approval of dragline designs> Scheduling and liaising with Dragline Superintendent, Supervisors and OperatorsInitiatives and key outcomes:> Successful implementation of offline key dragline method> Six Sigma Business Improvement Project – reduction of dragline ‘wait on dozer’ hours> Removal of bench buttress requirement> Introduction of weekly ‘4-month planning meeting’> Introduction of Dragline Design Lean Board> Development of shared KPI for dragline engineers and dragline supervisors> Dragline Heyford Creek crossing, including cost justification, civil design, liaising with BMA Environmental Officer and Environmental Consultant> Co-development of Dragline Planning Manual (BMA Award 2004)> Development of ‘Available Stripping Inventories’ spreadsheet> Histograms for dragline utilisation and availability

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Installation and management of first real time GPS surveying system> General Mine Surveys

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Training, coaching and mentoring of indigenous survey staff> Initiating and managing the development of post mining rehabilitation surface> Providing survey control for post mining surface formation> Designing of haul road upgrades and drainage channels to a civil standard> Implementation of aerial surveying of ore and gravel stock piles> Management of consulting surveyors

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Development of design techniques for conveyor installations in Underground longwall> General Colliery survey duties

Primary roles and responsibilities:> Commenced as Cadet Mine Surveyor> Implementing introduction of programmable calculator survey programs> Implementing introduction of efficient surveying techniques

Associate Degree In Science (Surveying)

Masters Of Business Administration

Graduate Diploma Mining Engineering

Mine Surveyor’S Certificate – All Mines Including Coal Mines