Daniel Amariei

Advisor – Business Development • Operating as the main contact for any matters for specific clients (senior companies, junior companies, engineering firms and equipment manufacturers. • Developing and maintaining long-lasting customer relationships. • Overseeing customer account management, including negotiating contracts and agreements to maximize profits. • Implementation and maintenance of a CRM (Pipedrive). • Presentation of Corem’s facilities to new potential customers. • Promote ore sorting and other physical separation solutions to new or existing customers. Provide client-orientated solutions for their needs. • Customer support during the realization of the projects: ensure the quality of the obtained results by Corem’s team, technical discussions and results communications as well as solving eventual problems. Support to promote their results through press releases. Program Leader – Physical Separation • Management of a varied research portfolio covering all aspects of physical separation: characterization for mine planning, preconcentration (ore sorting), fine particles recovery, solid-liquid separation and fundamentals aspects of the existing equipment in operation. • Management of a research budget of $1.2-1.4M/yr and a research project portfolio of 2.3 M$. • Support to Corem’s physical separation team to reach the budget objectives and members’ expectations in terms of project orientation, quality of the results and timeline. • Writing and review of scientific papers. • Organization of technological days for Corem’s members during which selected projects are presented and discussed. • Organization of round tables on physical separation bringing together Corem’s experts, members and external experts aiming at positioning Corem’s research program. • Establish productive collaborations with other research centers or universities to create innovation.

R&D mainly in physical separation •Ore sorter implementation: Comex industrial ore sorter (1-m wide belt) with XRT, RGB, NIR and SWIR sensors. o Negotiate and define a productive collaboration with the main ore sorters manufacturers. o Lead the construction team of the ore sorter set-up at Corem: engineering team, equipment manufacturers, construction team o Deliver a flexible sorting plant able to process from small (a couple of kilos) to large (hundred of tons) samples to accommodate all type of clients. o Establish productive collaboration in ore sorting to deliver innovation for our members. •Benchmark of new innovative technologies against the existing technologies for iron fines recovery: Reflux Classifier, spirals, hindered settlers and multi-gravity separators. •Beneficiation of the iron ore fine particles by direct and reverse (silica) flotation. •Enhancement of fine particle classification using the Cyclowash. •Beneficiation of iron ore through laboratory and pilot scale magnetic separators. •Beneficiation of rare earth minerals, ilmenite and apatite by gravity and magnetic separation. Process development at laboratory, pilot scale and industrial scale •Plant start-up of innovative gravity separation device (Reflux Classifier) for fine iron ore particles recovery. •Test work and flow sheet conception and development for order of magnitude, prefeasibility and feasibility studies. •Monitor budget as well as achieve and coordinate short/long term objectives and timeline. Characterization projects for mine planning •Simulation of the plant through lab scale techniques (Wilfley table tests, sink-float tests, Davis tube tests, etc.). •Ensure and continuously improve the quality control testing. •Conception of controlled work procedures. •Development of a project database. •Periodical communications about characterized samples and quality control results. Continuous improvement.

Preparation of mesoporous materials for NOx decomposition.

Preparation and control of catalysts for the decomposition of the cryogenic H2 - O2 mixture, in partnership with Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and Air Liquide.