Mike Grummitt​

JPMC SA General Manager

Mike Grummitt​

Mike Grummitt is a Mining Engineer with 39 years operational, technical, project and consulting experience and holds an Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines (ACSM). Mike commenced his career at the Mufulira Division of Roan Consolidated Mines Ltd in Zambia in 1976 and moved to South Africa with Union Corporation Ltd in 1981. He started at Grootvlei Gold Mine in Springs, then Technical Services in Head Office in Johannesburg, and onto Impala Platinum in Rustenburg in production roles at Wildebeest North and Bafokeng North mines.  

He joined Haggie Rand Limited in 1984 as a Technical Services Engineer in their Mine Winding Rope Division and later went on to head their Zambian steel wire rope manufacturing business in Kitwe in the early 1990s. He also spent a total of 13 years in Botswana with BCL Limited in various roles from Shift Boss to Technical Manager (Mining).  

Subsequent to BCL, he has worked for African Barrick Gold at Bulyanhulu, Tanzania as Technical Services Manager and Technical Services Project Manager, and has also worked as a Senior Mining Engineer in the Mining Section of Engineering Group TWP in Johannesburg.

Mike has an-depth understanding of hard rock mining and technical services provision and management.