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Curriculum Vitae

POSITION: Mining Engineer

DATE OF BIRTH: 11 May 1964

NATIONALITY: Australian

MARITIAL STATUS: Married, 3 Children

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor of Engineering (Mining), University of Queensland – 1984 (Hons.)
Master of Engineering Science (Research), University of Queensland – 1987 A Geostatistical Approach to Coal Resource Classification.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

2004 - Present Chief Operating Officer, SMG Consultants Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (SMG Consultants formed by de-merger of Surpac Minex Group consulting division into a separate company and then joining that company with the Minserve group)

2002 - 2003 Manager Consulting, Surpac Minex Group Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Surpac Minex group formed from Merger of ECS International and Surpac Software International)

1997 – 2002 Manager Brisbane, ECS International Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (formerly Engineering Computer Services Pty Ltd)

1990 – 1997 Mining Engineer, Engineering Computer Services Pty Ltd, Bowral, NSW, Australia.

1989 – 1990 Mining Engineer, BHP – Utah Coal Limited, QLD, Australia

1987 – 1989 Mining Engineer, TDM coal Limited, QLD, Australia

1987 Mining Engineer, GEMCO, Groote Eylandt, NT, Australia

1985 – 1987 Tutorial Fellow, University of QLD, Australia

1983 - 1984 Technical Assistant, CSR, QLD, Australia

1982 – 1983 Technical Assistant, TDM, QLD, Australia

1981 – 1982 Technical Assistant, BHP, QLD, Australia

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

2004 – Present SMG Consultants Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Chief Operating Officer

* Successfully guided consulting division through corporate restructure involving o De-merger from parent group (SMG pty. Ltd), o Attracting external investors as equity participants, o Retention of all staff.
o Complete establishment of all systems and processes for the new consulting entity o Successful retention of clients

2002 – 2003 Surpac Minex Group Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Manager Consulting

* Established consulting division for Surpac Minex Group.
* Responsible for consulting activities world wide
* Direct responsibility for 12 engineers and geologists in 3 offices in Australia.
* Coordinate developing market opportunities for consulting worldwide
* Market development and consulting in Indonesia
* Projects include
* Cost reduction planning for Kaltim Prima Coal (Indonesia)
* Tender preparation for PAMA contractors (Indonesia)
* Alternative mining methods to reduce costs for Berau Coal (Indonesia)
* Life of mine planning for Kaltim Prima coal (Indonesia)
* Feasibility study for combined Mt Pleasant/Bengalla operation (Australia)
* Identification of exploration areas and tenure negotiations for junior Coal developers (Australia and Indonesia)
* Project review for Anglo Coal Moura mine (Australia)
* Project review for Roche Mining
* Overburden Crusher Conveyor evaluation Kaltim Prima Coal (Indonesia)

1997 – 2002 ECS International Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Manager Brisbane

* Established a new office for ECSI in Queensland. Built business to $1m turnover in 3 years.
* Overall responsibility for a team of geologists and mining engineers throughout many consulting projects.
* Dragline optimisation studies for Drayton Coal.
* Dragline design studies for Boundary Hill Extended
* Life of mine Planning for Kaltim Prima Coal
* Detailed planning and feasibility study for the Theodore deposit
* Margin ranking study of Hunter valley assets for Coal and Allied
* Insitu to ROM Algorithms for Kaltim Prima Coal
* Pit design for an existing Hunter Valley operation.
* Backfill and rehabilitation planning for Drayton Coal.
* Major redesign and replanning for Saraji mine.
* Feasibility studies 3 green fields mines in Walloon Coal Measures.
* Software implementation Kaltim Prima Coal.
* Major redesign of an existing Venezuelan coal deposit.
* Lectures in operations research at the University of Queensland.
* Redesign and optimization of dragline operations at an existing Bowen basin mine.
* Detailed mine planning for the Milmerran contract tender (Walloon coal measures)
* Software implementation at Jordon Phosphate.
* Total mine planning review for Camberwell Coal.
* Life of mine planning for Whitehaven Coal.
* Contract mine planning for Coppabella Coal tender.
* Several due diligence projects for major coal assets

1990 – 1997 Engineering Computer Services Pty Ltd, Bowral, NSW, Australia.
Mining Engineer

* Pre-feasibility study for a new Hunter Valley coal project including overall study responsibility.
* Pit Optimisation and costing for potential purchase of an existing Hunter Valley coal operation.
* Research into subsidence prediction methods and software.
* Research and development for new artificial intelligence driven mine evaluation software.
* Development of mine costing database.
* Development of manual mining and backfill scheduler for PLDC.
* Strategic and detailed prefeasibility study of Kayuga for Shell Coal Australia.
* Development of expert system scheduling for open cut coal operations.
* Dragline pit optimisation study for Boundary Hill.
* Dragline operations simulation for Drayton Coal and Callide Coal fields
* Study of NCA Project for Kaiser Engineers and banking consortium.
* Pit design and backfill studies for the Charbon Colliery
* Pit design, scheduling and equipment selection for Bengalla project feasibility study.
* Long term scheduling for open-cut coalmines in Hunter Valley and Bowen Basin.
* Software training and technical support for Wambo, Lemington, Ulan, Saxonvale and Warkworth mines and Shell Melbourne office.
* Software training and technical support for Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, and Sumitomo Coal, Tokyo.
* Pit design scheduling for Powder River coal, Gillette, Wyoming.
* Pit optimization study for North American Coal Operations for Mitsubishi Materials Corporation.
* Pit optimisation studies for El Cerrejon mine, Columbia.

1989 – 1990 BHP – Utah Coal Ltd, Goonyella / Riverside Mine.
Mining Engineer

* Supervision of statistics clerks
* Design and programming of a database system for recording and reporting of production statistics
* Generation and maintenance of computer based reserves
* Design and supervision of exploration drilling programmes.
* Coal quality and blending control
* Short to medium term scheduling
* Evaluation of equipment tenders.

1987 – 1989 TDM/BHP – Utah Coal Ltd, Riverside Mine.
Mining Engineer

* Preparation of Annual Budgets
* Preparation of short and long term mining strategies
* Short and long term scheduling
* Preparation of drill and blast, dragline and truck/shovel working plans.
* Preparation of blasting reports
* Shift Foreman on a relief basis
* Monthly production reporting
* Coal Quality Control.
* Responsibility for environmental matters including revegetation trials and water quality monitoring.
* Responsibility for monitoring geotechnical problems and liaising with external geotechnical consultants
* Planning Lox Line Drilling programmes
* Computer generation of geological reserves
* Supervision of research projects including field trials of new low-density explosives and extraction of coal from breaker rejects.

1987 GEMCO, Groote Eylandt, NT

* Preparation of 25 year quantity, equipment replacement and capital expenditure schedules for major expansion feasibility study.

1985 – 1987 Tutorial Fellow, University of Queensland

* Tutor in 2nd, 3rd and 4th year Mining Engineers in Mine Ventilation, Fluid Mechanics, Computer Programming, Rock Mechanics, Explosive Engineering and Geostatistics.
* Development and Supervision of practical experiments in the above subjects.
* Assessment of student reports.

1983 – 1984 Technical Assistant, CSR, QLD, Callide/Boundary Hill Mines.

1982 – 1983 Technical Assistant, TDM, QLD, Moura Mine.

1981 – 1982 Technical Assistant, BHP, QLD, Gregory Mine.

PUBLICATIONS

* Classification of Coal Resources Using Geostatistics by K. Whitchurch, in Proc. Coal Mining Geostatistics Seminar, University of Queensland, November 1986.
* A Geostatistical Approach to Coal Reserve Classification by K.D. Whitchurch, A.D.S. Gillies, D.C. Cawte and G.D Just, proceedings Pacific Rim Conference, August 1987.
* Geostatistics for Prediction of Coal Washability Characteristics, by A.D.S. Gillies, D.C. Cawte, K.D. Whitchurch and G.D. Just, AusIMM.
* A Simulation Model for Selecting a Suitable Digging Method for a Dragline Operation. E.Y. Baafi, H. Mirabediny and K. Whitchurch, Proceedings APCOM XXV, July 1995.
* Underground and Open-Cut coal Scheduling using Expert Systems. K. Whitchurch, A.A. Cram, N. Ozawa, K. Koizumi. Proceedings APCOM XXVI, Pennsylvania, 1996.
* A dragline simulation model for complex multi-seam operations. E.Y. Baafi, H. Mirabediny, K. Whitchurch. 1996.
* An Overview of the Integrated Coal Evaluation System. T. Sugita, K.D Whitchurch, A.A. Cram, H. Watanabe, N. Ozawa. Presented at NEDO/DME Conference, Brisbane, March 1997.
* Integrating Coal Quality and Blending into the Project Evaluation Process. H Watanabe, K.D. Whitchurch, G.P.J. Turczynski, T. Sugita, N. Ozawa. Presented at NEDO/DME Conference, Brisbane, March 1997.
* Artificial Intelligence Systems for Optimum Mine Planning, KD Whitchurch, A.A. Cram, T. Sugita, N. Ozawa, H. Watanabe. Presented at NEDO/DME Conference, Brisbane, March 1997.
* New Technology in Seismic, Geophysical and Geological Data Interpretation. P.J. Hanna, A.A. Cram, K.D. Whitchurch, T. Sugita, N. Ozawa, H. Watanabe. Presented at NEDO/DME Conference, Brisbane, March 1997.
* Computer simulation of complex dragline operations. E.Y. Baafi, H. Mirabediny, K. Whitchurch. International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Environment 11 (1997): pp7-13.

AFFILIATIONS

* Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
* Competent person for coal Resource and Reserve estimation under JORC code

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