Mr. Alan Baxter

• Forename: Alan
• Surname: Baxter
• Primary Position: Senior Mining Engineer
• Secondary Position: Mining Regulations Expert

Brief CV

Alan Baxter graduated from the Camborne School of Mines in 1959. After two years National Service with the Royal Engineers he spent 12 years working for Consolidated Goldfields on their South African West and East Rand mines. After six years in production he was promoted to Underground Manager, controlling workforces of up to 3,000. His final two years were spent sinking and commissioning No. 2 Shaft at East Driefontein with associated level development and preparation for stoping. In 1973 his career broadened to include trackless mining (3,000 tpd Copper ore) when he became a Senior Mine Captain at Avoca Mines in Ireland. He then spent eight years as an engineering and contracts manager gaining a wide experience of the quarrying, surface coal mining and civil engineering drilling and blasting requirements for production and quarry design. In 1982 joined a Spanish drilling and blasting contractor as technical assistant to the contracts director. In 1983 he joined Seltrust Engineering as a Senior Mine Engineer providing general consultancy to the mines of the BP group in Sierra Leone (Alluvial Diamonds), Zimbabwe (open pit), Brazil (as the principal design engineer for the Cabacal Cu/Au mine), Santa Barbara and Tabaquina (alluvial tin). He also gained experience in the use of PC Mine computer mine design programme. In 1989 he formed the consultancy company A Baxter Associates providing managerial, technical and economic feasibility studies to a wide selection of large and medium size mining companies and consultants. The major task during this time was to be the General Manager of Iscaycruz Zn / Pb mine in the high Andes of Peru where he managed the development of the mine from the basic engineering phase to production of 1000 tones of ore per day. On completion of the project in Peru he was contracted to be the South American Manager for Williams Resources Inc. of Toronto where he was controlling operating mines in Brazil and Mexico and responsible for the acquisition of other mining related business opportunities. He was employed as Principal Mining Engineer for IMC Mackay & Schnellmann from 1997 to 2001. In 2001 employed as the Chief Inspector of Mines in Kosovo until July 2002

Qualifications

• Mine Managers Certificate
  Associate Camborne School of Mines, (ACSM), S. Africa

Languages *

• English: 10
• Spanish: 7
• Portuguese: 4

* N.B. Language skill is scored on a scale between 1 and 10.

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