Mike Buckland
Chief Executive Officer - Mining @ OPAIA GROUP
About
Highly experienced and motivated DG/GM/Director. 38 years in diamonds, gold, uranium, nickel, copper, with Rio Tinto, De Beers, AREVA, Vale and juniors, in Angola, Guinea, Botswana, Canada, Niger, Burkina Faso and Greenland. Consultancy work in Africa, Americas, Australia, and Europe, including turnarounds, Order of Magnitude studies, Pre-Feasibility, and Feasibility study work as well as safety, production upgrades, mines restarts. Key strengths and achievements include establishing brown-field + green field start-ups, design, build, commissioning and operation of remote mine sites; consistently surpassing production objectives, commitment to training local staff, design of remote operations including sample evaluation plants. Excellent knowledge of HSE practices, plus ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18000.
Angola
Luanda
Mining & Metals
Gold, Diamonds, Minerals, Mining, Process Engineering, English, Portuguese, French, Africa, Mineral Processing, Arctic mining, Metallurgy, Feasibility Studies, Base Metals, Commissioning, Engineering, Factory, Safety Management Systems, Supervisory Skills, Risk Assessment
Experience
Chief Executive Officer - Mining
OPAIA GROUP
International, Angola mostly
Director
STELO GROUP
International, Angola mostly
DG - Mine
MCM
Angola
After a false start at a gold mine in the red zone in Burkina Faso in 2020, then COVID, returned to Angola in February 2021. New mining company start-up with huge potential.
General Manager + deputy President
Vale
New Caledonia, Melanesia
Nickel, cobalt. Left because Vale decided to leave New Caledonia, mine closed.
Director General
Sociedade Mineira de Luana S.A. - SOMILuana
Luana mine, Lunda Norte, Angola
Fast-tracking of development of remote diamond mine in Angola, transitioning from prospection scale to full production.
General Manager Nalunaq gold mine; MD Arctic Mining for operations in Greenland
Angel Mining PLC
Greenland
General Manager of Nalunaq gold mine. Managing Director of Arctic Mining for operations in Greenland. Currently ramping up Nalunaq mine to full production, and implementing brownfield start-up of Black Angel mine
Director of Production
AREVA Cominak Mine
Responsible for production at AREVA Cominak Uranium Mine in Niger. Colleagues taken hostage Sept 2010, expats evacuated, job closed
Director of Production
Luarica
Diamonds, Lunda Norte, Angola Collapse of diamond prices, many juniors like us were forced to close
Principal Consultant, Diamonds
Rio Tinto
Managed Pre-feas, Feasibility Study to increase diamond production at Diavik Mine, North West Territories, Canada. Consulted for other Rio Tinto group mines. RT closed the Bristol office.
Metallurgical Manager
SDM
Diamonds, Cuango, Angola
Education
Heriot-Watt University
Teesside University
Chemical Engineering
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