Demonstration Of Professional Expertis1

Demonstration of Professional Expertise. Dr. Malcolm J Mudge Fellow Sth African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geo. Society of South Africa. FSAIMM, GSSA, SME. The following article refers to the professional expertise demonstrated by the author in the presentation of papers and publications for the South African Institute of mining and Metallurgy, The South African Geological Society and the International Mineral Processing Conferences. Malcolm John Mudge is an Australian, born in Cowra, NSW, in central NSW and has family living in Coffs Harbour. Summary: Due to extensive experience in the mineral processing industry and in the Diamond industry, Dr. Malcolm Mudge has his experience to excel in the publication of papers and presentations for several seminars on mining and processing. The international conference at Nasrec in Jburg was the launching pad for South African industry where Dr. Mudge presented a paper on feasibility studies and how to present such studies to banking institutions. This paper was published by the SAIMM in their journal which gives the papers presented at this international conference. Dr. Mudge has prepared papers for the Diamond industry, particularly in relation to Black Empowerment in the Diamond Industry to introduce processing methods to the masses of black indigenous people of South Africa in an endeavour to promote mining within the poor sectors of the community in a effort to increase legalized mining with a solid growth pattern based on systematic training within the sector. He is well known to the Institutes. His 320 page book on Mining and Processing Aspects is utilized in South American universities, where he has extensively lectured in their native tongue. Also presented by Dr. Mudge are papers on waste management, in particular, Cyanide Waste Management. A dissertation outlining the costs and methods of treatment with a breakdown of comparative methods gives the reader a choice in selecting various means of cyanide eradication in tailing products. One of the most deleterious products of gold production is the discarding of chemical waste, in particular, Cyanide, which is harmful to the environment. The paper by Dr.Mudge outlines how to combat and remove this section of the gold treatment process with inexpensive and innovative techniques. With the experience of several years as company president of a Latin American mining company, Dr. Mudge has lectured at several universities throughout the third world regions including universities in Quito, Machala and Cuenca in Ecuador. His expertise in Alluvial Mining is shown by the use of cash flow studies, used in feasibility studies, and the use of design drawing to show the extent of processing options for alluvial mining. Working as Process Manager for a world wide company supplying companies from Hindustan Zinc mines in India to companies in Northern Africa to South America, Anglo Gold in Brazil, Dr. Mudge has demonstrated a wide and varied range of experience. Current symposiums being developed by Dr. Mudge include Witts University Workshops for geologists in Alluvial Mining to the Angola Chamber of Commerce which lectures proposed to include artesinal miners in Angola, with a view to modernizing approaches to small scale miners and their effect on the general community by increasing opportunities and increasing cash flows by utilization of modern processing techniques made economical by varied approaches to the industry. His experience is utilized by Particle Size Separations, a South African company, where vertical mills, ore driers and screening are an integral part of their company’s product research and production. Utilizing this equipment, various testing and research has delineated various methods of increasing recoveries for a variety of mineral production. An example is given by tails that could only yield 30% Au., until fine milling increased recoveries to 90%, resulting in full scale investigative work in South Africa on Tailings reserves. Research on the subject of mineral processing has been carried out over the many years within the mining industry and as a result of this experience many papers have been presented to universities in South America and companies within South Africa on various methods of processing. The experience gained in artesianal mining in South America and North Korea has added a newer dimension to the processing options available. Experience and trials carried out with small scale miners has enabled some innovative approaches to processing using older tried and accepted methods from yesteryears. Tried and true technology has been modified to suit economic restraints within third world countries where unique solutions has enabled great cost savings in developing solutions using normally accessible commodities from small business entities. Quite sophisticated technology has been modified and the principal maintained of the process engineering on a chemical basis but a change in actual hardware has enabled a cheaper product without the expensive costs incurred with modern engineering practices. Company portfolios and company reports together with company prospectuses have been issued though-out the mining communities particularly in Canada to demonstrate the potential of various mineral deposits in Ecuador. Dr. Mudge has been issuing such prospectuses for several years in Ecuador as company president to Minera Gowanda S.A., an Ecuadorian mining company founded in 1973 in Quito. This mining company has issued various reports in International Mining magazines through-out the 1990’s. Mr. Mudge has been involved heavily with the Canadian Embassy in Quito in promoting Ecuadorian mineral deposits and he is well known to the mining fraternity in countries such as Australia, Ecuador, Canada, North Korea, South Africa, Liberia, Rwanda, Malawi, CAR, Tanzania and many more countries. His ability to speak several languages has enabled him to converse in many countries of diverse cultural and language barriers. His 30 years experience is currently being utilized by some of the world’s largest gold and diamond producers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to South African based international gold houses such as Anglo-Gold and Goldfields of South Africa. Recently, in 2004, Dr Mudge was sent to Angola as Luanda manager for a diamond producer in Angola to co-ordinate operations and logistics. Dr Mudge speaks fluent Portuguese. Reference to Mike Prinsloo-CEO Goldfields South Africa and Larry Cramer-Anglo-Plats, South Africa. References can be obtained thru the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Geological Society in Johannesburg, South Africa. His experience is also being utilized by the Gershwin Lehman Group of New York, where Dr Mudge consults to international companies on African projects and their feasibilities. Dr Mudge is computer literate. He was employed by Bemex Corporation of Perth and worked internationally in such countries as Angola where he was director of Mining and Exploration for Metalex and Director (CEO) of Green Machine Corp. mines in DRC. and Zambia zinc projects (Director). Dr Mudge is a metallurgist, geologist, engineer and mineralogist holding PhDs in both Metallurgical Engineering and Geological Science. He is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a fellow of the, Geological Society of South Africa. Dr Mudge has had many years experience in Africa and Central America. He speaks several languages including French (the local DRC language) and Portuguese (the neighboring Angolan language), French, Spanish, Thai, and some Korean and Chinese. The artisanal copper operation is not a project which can easily be managed by remote control. Dr Mudge has worked in the area and on theses types of projects. He knows the terrain and the locality. Dr Mudge believes a “hands” on approach will ensure the success of the project. Because of his present commitments he will not take up residency in Lubumbashi until 4th February 2007till August 2007. This will not delay the project substantially as it is currently wet season in DRC. In the meantime however he has commissioned further survey work which will be available on his arrival in Lubumbashi . He is also committed to a BFS for a tin mining project in central Zambia and undertakes visits to collect data for the study.- Starfield Tin.- Chombe. While in Australia Dr Mudge worked with Rio Tinto on its large alumina plant at Nhulunbuy in N.T.- as feasibility study manager for the Brisbane Head Office. He then moved to J’Burg with Deswik Technology in process engineering on the new fine milling and recovery plants for refractory ores and base metals. He is now living in Gauteng in South Africa and heads the research and development for Deswik. www.deswik.com Dr Mudge is involved in ‘pressure milling techniques for great reaction rates in pressurized environmentrs at low cost for alumina and uranium processing. He speaks fluent and writes fluently in Spanish having published many books in Spanish in Sth. America and acted as Visiting professor of mining and metallurgy and geology at universities in South America. His number in Sth Africa is +27 72 477 3273, or +27 11 818 3341, fax: +27 11 363 3286.