AMC at PDAC 2023

Mark's technical expertise lies in the design and operation of open pit mines. He has broad experience in mining operations in both planning and management roles over a period of 18 years.

In these roles, he was responsible for ore reserve reporting, equipment selection and specification, pit design, scheduling and budgeting and operations management. During 20 years as a consultant with AMC, Mark has managed feasibility studies in Australia, Mozambique, Finland, Russia and Central African Republic for gold, platinum, base metals, uranium, magnetite, phosphate and mineral sands projects.

Mort has 45+ years of diverse geological experience in a variety of mining situations and geological environments. He has managed and contributed to grassroots and brownfields exploration around producing mines, as well as mine exploration replenishing Mineral Resources. He has worked on open pit and underground mine production geology and evaluation work, including Mineral Resource estimation and reporting. He has held chief geologist roles in two substantial producing gold mines, managing large staffs, providing services to operations, and running significant exploration programs. Mort has extensive international experience through working in many different cultures around the world. He also has co-authored numerous NI 43-101 and transaction-related reports and has significant experience in auditing and reporting Mineral Resources.

Frank possesses extensive international experience across the Americas in open pit strategic mine planning development and execution. He has strong technical and analytical abilities combined with a solid business acumen and an innovative mind. With 25+ years of experience, Frank is a successful leader in recruiting and development of professionals into a trusted, international, agile, and high functioning team working within a multi-disciplinary environment. 

Gene is a principal open pit mining engineer with more than 25 years’ experience. He has extensive operational and corporate experience in coal, copper, gold, and molybdenum throughout North and South America and Greenland with mines moving up to 200 Mtpa. Gene has held senior technical and operations positions with multiple companies including Vice President, Technical Services with Conuma Coal Resources, Mine Planning Superintendent for Detour Gold and Taseko’s Gibraltar mines, some of Canada’s largest open pit mines. He was part of the team that brought the Sierra Gorda copper molybdenum deposit in Chile from PEA to construction and the Mine Manager at KGHM’s Franke Mine through construction into operation. Gene has been responsible for mine planning and operational improvements resulting in significant operating cost reductions at numerous mines. Gene is also proficient with the use of Minesight’s suite of software. 

Abi is an experienced Mining Engineering professional with an excellent understanding of mine planning, reserve estimation, underground and open pit mining equipment. When problem solving Abi is highly safety focused and analytical is his approach. Abi is a skilled designer and scheduler with a high level of proficiency in Auto-Cad, Deswik, Surpac, Promine, MineSched, and Microsoft Office & 365. He enjoys contributing to the full life cycle of a project, conceptualizing mining alternatives and seeing designs through to delivery for implementation. Abi strives to employ his technical ability in a pragmatic way to deliver practical client outcomes.   

Aneta has a broad range of underground and open pit mine planning experience, with expertise in reserves estimation and mine design. With more than 15 years of mining experience at Canadian and Australian operations, and later as a consultant, Aneta has taken lead roles in studies covering a range of commodities and mining methods. Projects have included feasibility studies, optimizations of existing operations, and reserve estimation in several countries with a focus on Australia, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Central Africa. Aneta is an expert user of Datamine and Whittle software and is skilled in pit optimization and underground stope optimization.