Jim Calder

Project Manager/Study Manager/Principal Mechanical Engineer

Jim Calder is a Study Manager and Mechanical Engineer with 29 years experience in delivering successful metallurgical process plants projects on six continents. He has RPEQ status qualifications allowing for sign off on mechanical and piping designs in Queensland. Recent experience includes:

  • Study Manager - Calder Projects Services – Mount Dore Scoping Study - 25,000tpa Scoping Study for copper heap leach SXEW project near Cloncurry 2008
  • Silver Hill- Prefeasibility Study – Flotation , Albion process and SXEW -capital cost estimates 2008
  • Contract planning for Constancia copper project in Peru for GDR Minproc 2008- 20 Mtpa flotation plant with molybdenum circuit
  • Due Diligence - Capital Cost Estimate review - Philippines copper concentrator project (confidential client) 2008
  • Study Manager - Calder Projects Services - Wetar Copper 25,000tpa Feasibility Study for copper heap leach SXEW project in Indonesia 2008
  • Project Manager -  Calder Projects Services - Wetar Copper 5tpd Demonstration Plant 2007
  • Study Manager - Calder Projects Services- Lucky Break Nickel Study 2007
  • Project Engineer - Ivanhoe Mines Mongolia XXK – Oyu Tolgoi SXEW scoping study for 25,000tpa pioneering project in Mongolia 2003
  • Engineering Manager (for Ausenco 2005) on Jinfeng Gold Project for the detailed design phase in Nanchang China for a 1.2mtpa gold process plant incorporating crushing, grinding, flotation, biological oxidation, CIL, elution/desorption, gold room, detoxification and tailings. Supervised team of Australian and Chinese engineers 2005.
  • Project Manager - CMPS&F, S&K Copper Project for Ivanhoe in Myanmar 1997/8.
  • Project Manager - CMPS&F - Whim Creek study for Straits Resources 2001
  • Project Manager - CMPS&F - Nifty Upgrade for Straits Resources 2001
  • Ridgeway Gold/Copper Feasibility Study - DFS capital cost estimates $270M for CMPS&F client Newcrest 1999
  • Project Manager - Charters Towers Gold - Plant Construction 1996

Key relevant experience:

  • Management of Economic Feasibility studies and configuration of Project options
  • Design Management of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical process plant
  • General process plant layout design
  • Greenfield and Brownfield site construction experience
  • Experienced with specialised lining materials for tankage for acid, cyanide and other reagents
  • Experience on design and construction and commissioning of HLSXEW, Flotation, Biox and CIL projects
  • Capital cost estimation
  • Construction planning

 

 

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