Adam Virani, P.Geo. Email & Phone Number

Chile

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

Responsible for assessing the implementation and operationalization of autonomous and mining technologies into an asset and its economic impact. Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance.

Latam

Lead the MTC team supporting Glencore with business case development, operational readiness and implementation of Autonomous Drills Technology (ADT), Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS), and PreConcentration projects. These are large and demanding programs that require a lot of commitment and MTC is happy to have a team of engineers embedded within Glencore.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

Lead the MTC team supporting FloLevel in an operations & technical capacity by providing remote and site support functions and the preparation of technical documents for the FloLevel Global team, their contractors and customers.

Latam

Lead the MTC supporting Anglo American with the operational readiness of their Autonomous Drills Systems project at Los Bronces and Quellaveco. This is a large and demanding project that will require a lot of commitment and MTC is happy to step-up and support Anglo American on their Autonomous journey. MTC also had the pleasure of support Los Bronces with.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

Lead the MTC team that supported Epiroc with the delivery of the Autonomous Drill Systems program at Anglo American’s Los Bronces asset.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

MTC provided MPC Kinetic (now Epiroc) with a detailed understanding of the copper mining industry in LATAM. In addition, MTC’s Adam Virani is second on a paper submitted to the AusIMM Preconcentration Digital Conference 2020 entitled “Using High-Efficiency Downhole Assay to Improve the Financial Performance of Open Pit Copper Mining Operations".

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Minam

• Responsible for the end to end service of the autonomous technologies while ensuring the business and asset are meeting their critical objectives. Provided technical leadership and guidance to the operational and.
• Formed an integral part of the task force that proposed and operationalized the drill and haulage system at Escondida by suggesting that the autonomous fleet work in isolation with the OEM and with asset buy-in. This.

Santiago/Escondida (Atacama Desert), Chile

• Accountable for the identification, commissioning, and operationalization of new mining technologies while ensuring their deployment was in-line with the assets and business strategy and requirements. Reporting to the.
• Led the on-site field delivery of mining sensor technologies with an NPV of ~100M USD by creating resilience plans with the OEMs and cultivating relationships with asset stakeholder.
• Demonstrated the effectivity of the various mining sensors to determine minimum viable product by aligning the Mine Ops and project teams to safely perform the field trials and ensuring that equipment permits were up.

Escondida, Antofagasta

• Primarily responsible for defining the various types of materials (ore, waste, dump) and the destination of the material based on data and geological information for day to day operations ensuring compliance with the.
• Accurately delivered the daily mine plan by interpreting and updating the geological characteristic (lithology, alteration and mineralization with blasthole data) of the block model in Vulcan.
• Increased the resolution of the block model due to the safe and successful collection of field samples. Strategically identified target areas for the sampling of blastholes and then coordinated and supervised the.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

B.Sc. (Hons), Geology And Chemistry

Activities and Societies: SEG, TGDG

Diploma, Bhp Billiton Foundations For Graduate Program