Our People

Dr Rob Coleman

Chief Executive Officer

Rob is a minerals processing expert, with a B.Eng. (Hons) Chemical, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; a PhD. Minerals Processing, JKMRC, University of Queensland; and a Master of Business Administration, Australian Institute of Business.

Rob has 20+ years growing businesses across ANZ, South Africa, Asia and North America across SMEs, corporates and multinationals. Strategy and leadership experience spans Management, Sales, Business Development, Marketing, Consulting, Technology Design and Development, Commercialisation and Research Project Management.

Rob has consulted for clients such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Barrick, Freeport McMoRan, Newcrest and First Quantum Minerals.

Rob’s specialist knowledge spans all facets of Mineral Processing especially Flotation, for companies such as Gold Fields, AMIRA, the JKMRC (University of Queensland) and JKTech, and Outotec.

Peter Rohner

Technical Director

Peter Rohner is widely respected for his technical and commercial leadership in mineral processing projects globally. His 27 years in the mining industry have incorporated a wide range of technical and commercial roles, including 5 years as Business Adviser and Group Metallurgist for Xstrata Copper (now Glencore). Peter has extensive operational experience with career roles including Manager of MIM’s Hilton and Copper Concentrators, Commissioning Manager of Minera Alumbrera (Argentina), Technical Superintendent of the Red Dog Concentrater (Alaska) operations, and Manager of the Mt Gordon Flotation-POx-SX/EW circuit. In his corporate roles, Peter has provided technical input and leadership in a wide variety of pre-feasibility and feasibility studies along with significant leadership of technology commercialisation activities. Peter has extensive experience in virtually all aspects of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy with a primary focus on zinc, lead, silver, copper and gold.

Peter’s Operational Experience

Dr Duncan Turner

General Manager – Technology

Dr Duncan Turner is an experienced and trusted professional, with 27 years’ experience in the design, engineering, testing and commercial evaluation of mineral processing projects. Duncan’s focus is on helping companies unlock and maximise the value of their existing assets and evaluate new assets, by providing integrated technical and commercial expertise.

With a PhD in Electrometallurgy, Duncan’s experience includes a wide range of roles in R&D, metallurgical testing, engineering and corporate work, in Australia, Canada, US, Ireland and Belgium, working on projects all around the world. Duncan’s experience includes 7 years as manager of Technology and Technical Services for ZincOx, a European AIM listed company. Duncan is a co-inventor of the Albion Process, developed in his work in the 1990’s with Hydrometallurgy Research Laboratories (then owned by MIM).

Duncan has extensive experience across all fields of extractive metallurgy, process design, testing and commercial implementation. Duncan’s technical expertise extends to most commercial metals, with a primary focus on copper, zinc, lead, silver, gold and rare earth elements (REE’s).

Rod Ventura

Rod’s Operational Experience

Peter Kunst

Peter’s Operational Experience

Lachlan MacDonald

Lachlan’s Operational Experience

Oliver Kloiber-Deane

Oliver’s Operational Experience

Kim Ngoviky

Kim’s Operational Experience