Management...
Advisory Committee
Klaus Konigsmann – President of KVK Consulting Associates
Inc. provides consulting services to Mining Corporations for metallurgical
process design and process evaluation.
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Employment |
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June 1995 to present |
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President of KVK Consulting Associates
Inc.
Providing consulting services to Mining Corporations
Specializing in process design, process evaluation. |
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1978 to 1995 |
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Vice President Engineering for Noranda
Minerals Inc.
Principal responsibilities:
Plant Design Design of complete milling facilities.
Process revisions
Succession planning
Relations with Mining Faculties of major Canadian Universities
Mine closure and site rehabilitation |
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1978 - 1958 |
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Staff positions at several mines of the
Mining Corporation and
the Noranda Group |
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Education |
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McGill University, Montreal, 1958, B.
Eng., Metallurgy |
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Languages |
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English, French, German |
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Professional Affiliation |
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Professional Engineers of Ontario,
Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy |
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Awards |
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Mill Man of the Year Award, 1983
Distinguished Lecturer of CIM, 1988
Life Member of CIM, 1996
Airey Award of the Metallurgical Society of CIM,1996
Fellowship of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy
and Petroleum, 2002 |
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Current Directorship |
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Northgate Minerals Corporation |
Project involvement as independent consultant
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1996 to 2002: The
Cayeli Concentrator in Eastern Turkey
The Cayeli Concentrator treats approximately one million tons of a fine grained
copper/zinc/pyrite ore. The original process lay-out had to be modified to
improve product qualities and metal recoveries.
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1997 to 2001: The Antamina
Concentrator in Peru
The Antamina deposit hosts a copper and zinc scarn. Various bismuth minerals
tend to contaminate copper concentrates.
1997 to 1999 Leading the design team in process development, i.e. aiming for
the production of saleable copper and zinc concentrates, the application of
copper bismuth separation.
1999 to 2000 Acted as the owner's representative on plant design at the Bechtel
Engineering Office in San Francisco.
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2000 to 2001: The Duck Pond
Deposit of Thundermin Resources.
Process development and feasibility study for a concentrator of 2000 tpd
capacity.
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Spring and Summer 2001:
- The Lisheen Mine in Ireland
- The Pyhasalmi Mine in Finland
- The Tara Mine in Ireland
Assessment of process and concentrator operations on behalf of Inmet Mining Corporation.
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2002 to 2003: The Sustut Mine of
Double Star Resources
Process development for a blending operation. Sustut ores are to be blended
into the feed stream of a custom milling operation.
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October 2002: Lead/Zinc Mines in
Kosovo (Serbia)
On behalf of an agency of the United Nations, assess the feasibility of
re-opening the base metal concentrators in this war-torn province.
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2003 The Kemess North Project
Process Development for a Feasibility Study.
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2002 and ongoing: The Nico
Deposit of Fortune Minerals
Process development for a cobalt/bismuth/gold deposit in the NW Territories.
Feasibility study to be completed in 2006
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2004 and ongoing, process development for several gold deposits
in Vietnam for the Olympus Pacific Corporation.
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2004 and ongoing: process
development for copper/nickel deposits on behalf of
Canadian Royalties Inc.
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2005 and ongoing: process
development for the Gossan Ores of the Las Cruces Deposit in Spain (Inmet)
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