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Change of Business Name

I have changed my business name to better reflect the work I am and have been doing for the last year or two. Its just a very minor change to the name in that I have replaced “Interim” with “Independent”, but quite a significant change in the services that I offer. I am now available to assist you with study management and other strategic project support roles on a semi-permanent contract basis. As an example of this, I have just completed an 18 month major project study for Glencore copper, for which I was permanently appointed as the project manager reporting to the project steering committee. I am currently fulfilling a similar role for the Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture, leading a definitive feasibility study on the reprocessing of tailings.

I am independent of any engineering, equipment, or project delivery organisation so my activities and recommendations are fully focused on achieving the best outcome for my clients.

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Risk and Decision Analysis

The DecisionTools Suite: Complete Set of Risk and Decision Analysis Tools in Excel (palisade.com)

Licensing and experience with Palisade’s DecisionTools suite allows me to help you make more informed decisions, to better understand, and to manage the variability inherent in predicting future business returns or states. Contact me if you need help with @Risk (Monte Carlo analysis of cost or economic models), TopRank (determining what matters most in your models), PrecisionTree (action and probability based decision trees), StatTools (statistical analysis of data), or a combination of the four techniques.

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The Global Innovation Fund

GIF invests in entrepreneurs and innovators with the potential to improve the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people. Read the 2019 report here.

Anglo American is a foundation funder of ADVANCE, enabling and funding both Drinkwell, a social enterprise aiming to provide access to affordable and clean drinking water for millions of underserved urban customers, and Mr. Green Africa, a tech-enabled plastics recycling company disrupting the current informal plastic recycling sector in Kenya. Making headway towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Prevention of Fatalities

A progress report from the ICMM.

Safe and healthy working conditions are a fundamental human right. ICMM supports members adherence (as a minimum) to worker’s rights in accordance with the laws in their jurisdiction and applicable company policies. Significant progress in occupational health and safety across our industry has been made in recent years, but more needs to be done to ensure work can be completed without injury or illness.