Contents of Engineering & Mining Journal - FEB 2012

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NEWS - PEOPLE IN THE NEWS . has appointed Grant Hall
president and CEO. Craig Englesman has ten- dered his resignation as president and CEO, but will continue as a director. The company also appointed John Breedlove exploration manager.
. has appointed
Hannes Meyer CFO and Juliet Wall general man- ager of finance.
. announced Frederick H. Earnest
Frederick H. Earnest, presi- dent and COO, has been appointed CEO. His appoint- ment follows the retirement of Michael B. Richings as executive chairman and CEO. Richings will continue as a director and the chair-
man of the board of directors. . has appointed Robert I.
Pennington COO. The company also announced the appointments of Bernard (Bernie) Pacheco as Mt. Hope project controller and Fred Zumwalt as Mt. Hope mill manager.
.
has appointed Randy Buffington senior vice presi- dent of operations and Stefany Bales director of corporate communications.
. has Stefany Bales
appointed James Currie COO and Renee Brickner vice
president of investor relations.
. has appointed Fernando Pajuelo gen- eral manager in charge of mining operations at the company's Pasto Bueno tungsten mine in Peru.
has appointed
Björn Ingemanson presi- dent. He succeeds Göran Gummeson, who is retiring next year.
. Bjo ̈rn Ingemanson
recently made several appointments: Larry Wolfe has been appointed CFO and
a member of the board; John C. Spurney has been appointed senior consulting geologist; and Keith Brogoitti has been appointed senior mining engineer. Robert Faber was also appointed to the board of directors.
(SKM)
has appointed Santo Rizzuto CEO. Phil Lory, formerly area manager, Asia Pacific, will now lead SKM's mining activities across the compa- ny's global operations.
Phil Lory . has appointed Gregory J. Martin senior vice president and CFO.
has appointed Pedro Ladeira COO. has appointed Lisa May direc-
tor of investor relations. . has appointed Rodney (Rod) Johnson, Ph.D. vice president of geometallurgy. 12 E&MJ; • FEBRUARY 2012 Bruno Reckmann Jon Eklund Todd Swinderman Jon Chicken Jens Ennen has appointed
Jens Ennen senior vice pres- ident of engineering and innovation.
announced the expansion of its Africa practice through the additions of Morné van
der Merwe and Wildu du Plessis. Upon joining Dewey & LeBoeuf, van der Merwe will become co- chair of the firm's Global Natural Resources prac- tice and du Plessis will become co-managing partner of the Johannesburg office.
. has appointed David Frappier Rivard vice president of exploration. has
appointed Jon Chicken managing director.
. has
appointed Brett Clark chief development officer.
. has appointed James S. Gilbert
president and CEO, and a director of the company. Dr. Peter Bradshaw, CEO, has been elected non- executive chairman of the board of directors.
. has appointed David C.W. Macdonald a director of the company. has
announced the retirement of Chief Technical Director Todd Swinderman.
has
appointed Vice Chairman Ron MacDonald executive chairman of the board of
directors. He replaces Brian McAlister who will continue as a member of the board.
. has appointed Régis
Desbiens vice president of mining and Guillaume Émond corporate controller.
has appointed Tony Wachmann director of mining, metallurgy and infrastructure.
has appointed
Jon Eklund product support sales representative, with focus on geotechnical drilling and exploration contracts.
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has appointed Bertho Caron vice president of
project development and construction. has appointed Michael Stofferahn vice president of North American sales. has
appointed Bruno Reckmann sales manager for the busi- ness divisions conveying and loading, palletizing and packaging. He succeeds Ulrich Hock, who is now responsible for these prod-
uct lines across the globe as the sales director of the BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG.
ed for 41% of disposal or other releases con- sidered in the inventory that year, by far the largest total for any single industry in the U.S. The report covers 79 metal mining facilities. These operations totaled 1,622.6 million lb in on-site and off-site disposal and other releases, of which 1,620.2 million lb were on-site. Of the on-site total, 1,587.6 million lb were disposed of on land, includ- ing waste rock and tailings. Total managed production-related waste handled by the U.S. metal mining industry dropped sharply between 2001 and 2004—a trend the EPA attributes in part to changes in reporting; leveled off from 2004 through 2009; and increased by about 38% between 2009 and 2010. In response to the EPA report, the National Mining Association commented: "Nearly all—85% to 99% by volume—of the substances reported by mining opera- tions occur naturally in the local rock and soil and remain in low concentrations in the large amount of material handled and managed at specially designed on-site facilities permitted and regulated by state and federal laws. Because these naturally occurring trace amounts are covered by the Toxics Release Inventory, mining opera- tions make up a large portion of the releas- es to land for on-site management that were reported by all operations in 2010. "Due to increased demand for U.S. met- als resulting from worldwide economic re- covery that was most evident in 2010, the volume of on-site land-managed materials reported by mining also increased over 2009. The level of natural mineralization in the orebodies mined also greatly influenced the volume of materials reported by mining. Demonstrative of the increased demand for U.S. metals in 2010, more than 4,000 new jobs were added at domestic metals mines between June 2010 and June 2011. "The Toxics Release Inventory is a weight-based report covering nearly 650 chemicals and substances and is not in- tended to evaluate risk. Health, safety and environmental protection at mining opera- tions and community-related impacts are governed by other local, state and federal requirements," the NMA said.
In 2010, 20,904 facilities reported to
TRI. Together they reported total on- and off-site disposal or other releases of 3.93 billion lb of toxic chemicals. Most, said the EPA, were disposed of or released on-site to land, air or water, or injected underground.
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