Among our Competent Persons for technical & operational reviews is the founding and principal partner at Tacmin (Pty) Ltd. He has practised his profession continuously since 1996 with 30 years of experience in the civil infrastructure construction, asset management and open-pit minerals industry, specialising in bringing projects to account as well as optimisation. The CP’s experience covers a broad range of disciplines in construction management, engineering, planning, scheduling, costing, as well as mining, construction and project management. He has gained multiple years of experience in infrastructure construction, environmental management, engineering, production, enrichment, and mining contracting in platinum, gold, copper, cobalt, phosphates, coal, fluorspar, manganese, iron ore, vanadium and chrome. He is member of ECSA and Fellow of the AusIMM with overall responsibility for all technical due diligence, feasibility studies and project evaluations carried out by TACMIN and have 24 years of experience in those above.

Recordable track record in completing JORC Compliant reports in respect of Feasibility studies and Independent Engineers Reports (IER's) relating to mine asset evaluations, LOM and reserve declarations, mine optimisations, owner-operator versus contractor trade-off studies, equipment selections with capital recommendations and more. Given our operational improvement, asset management, procurement, contract mining and mining cost capabilities, we find that our customers are especially satisfied with the results of our studies, as these contain extensive in-depth validation. Where shareholding of mining companies comprise of more than one, we have assisted numerous public listed companies with independent opinions and recommendations, most of which were executed in terms of our findings. 

Since 1996, TacminMadini has assisted many mining companies with mine engineering as part of the owner's team. From exploration planning, geological modelling, LOM studies, mine engineering, including but not limited to pit optimisations, mining cost estimation, mine designs, long, medium and short-term planning, through to rehabilitation designs and plans. In many instances, our involvement formed part of an operational improvement assignment, and often we have to re-engineer the mine as part of a turn-around strategy. Notwithstanding the nature of our participation, TacminMadini's engineering and mine plans are carefully tracked for conformance, thereby making it possible to adhere to strategic mine engineering principals.