Associates

Experts With Vision

Our Associates

Our expert team of associates collectively have more then 380 years of experience within the mining, consulting and project management space. Using this collaborative network of knowledge and experience will set your project ahead. 

Jim Porter
Managing Director and Principal Consultant

Jim Porter

Prof Jim Porter is a Consulting Engineer with 44 years operational, project management and consulting experience. He holds a BSc Hons Mining (Leeds University) and completed the Management Development Program (UNISA) and an Advanced Management Program (INSEAD, France).

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

PG VAN ZYL
Associate Senior Mining Consultant: Coal & Materials Handling

PG Van Zyl

PG Us a Mining Engineer with 38 years experience. He holds a Master’s degree in Mining Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and a number of National Diplomas in Coal mining and Surface Mining from different South African Technicon’s.

GORDON KOLL
Associate Consulting Geologist

Gordon Koll

Gordon has more than 35 years experience in Exploration and Mining Geology in multiple jurisdictions, commodities and geological settings, and includes both surface and underground mining geology experience.

 

Alastair Macfarlane
Consulting Mining Engineer

Alastair Macfarlane

Alastair is a mining engineer with 47 years of mining experience. Most of his production experience is in gold mining in South Africa.

 

 

Paul Wilson
Consulting Civil Engineer

Paul Wilson

Paul is a Chartered & Professional Engineer with more than 40 years structural concrete & civil design and inter-discipline co-ordination experience (Lead Engineer) for an extensive range of industrial, marine, mining, commercial and infrastructure projects. 

Consulting Mechanical Engineer – Mining Mechanisation Specialist

Rod Pickering

Rod is a Mechanical Engineer with 52 years experience. Rod has an in-depth understanding of mechanized mining, rock boring and non-explosive mining methods. He is widely recognized as an expert in the mechanization of hard rock mining operations.

Kevin J Botha
Project Management Professional

Kevin J Botha

Kevin is an Engineering and Project Management professional with over 40 years experience in the mining sector, currently providing Professional Services into the Mining, Infrastructure and Transportation sectors of Southern Africa and the broader African continent. 

Consulting MRM Specialist

Jurgens Visser

Jurgens has 40 years experience in the Mining Industry and is a specialist in the field of Mineral Resource Management.

 

 

Dean Ackerman
Associate Mechanical Engineer

Dean Ackerman

Dean has 33 years of experience in the mining industry, specializing in the extraction of high value particles from run of mine material feed. His particular strength and skill-set lies in the design and optimization of particulate extraction machinery.

Rob Croll
Valuation Specialist

Rob Croll

Rob has 40+ years experience in the mining industry starting with De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd/Anglo American Corporation of SA Ltd.

Richard Brokken

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“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” 

– Steve Jobs