Our People
Experts, with decades of experience in the mining industry
Partners
Principal Mine Engineer
Gordon Zurowski P. Eng.
Gordon is recognized as an industry expert in mining projects around the world, with particular skills in open pit mining projects and financial evaluations. With more than 30 years of practical experience in both mine operations and consulting, Gordon has honed skills for the development of economic pits, mine scheduling, equipment selection, capital cost estimating, and operational audits. He has participated as both a team member and leader in the production of NI 43-101 compliant preliminary economic assessments, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.
Principal Mine Engineer
Alonso Gonzales
Alonso has many years of multinational experience in a range of commodities in both open pit and underground hard rock mining. Alonso’s skills encompass most aspects of underground and open pit engineering from mine planning, scheduling, cave flow modelling to financial and cost modelling, prefeasibility and feasibility studies, and project management.
Principal Mine Engineer
Ryan Brown P. Eng.
Ryan Brown has 15 years of experience in both open pit and underground mine planning and operations, including all major aspects of project evaluation and financial modelling. Key strengths include optimizing complex mining operations and schedules, mining approach trade-offs and scenario analysis, pit phase design, site layout, waste management, and closure planning. Most of Ryan’s experience is in gold and copper, including projects in North America, South America, Africa, and Russia.
Geology
Principal Resource Geologist
Paul Daigle P. Geo.
Paul Daigle has over 32 years of progressive experience in evaluating and developing mineral exploration and mining projects worldwide. He is skilled in project management, team building, and problem-solving. Paul has extended experience in geostatistics and resource estimation and is skilled in the use of Geovia GEMS™ and Sage 2001. As an Associate of AGP, Paul has worked on a variety of open pit and underground projects ranging from Order of Magnitude to Feasibility Studies. Paul is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has a basic knowledge of Portuguese.
Principal Geologist
Tim Maunula P. Geo.
With more than 40 years of experience in geology, exploration, operations, and consulting on projects throughout Canada and internationally. He is an expert in geostatistical analysis, mineral resource estimation, geological modeling, quality assurance and quality control, and project management. He has been involved in the geological/geostatistical evaluation of base metals, gold, diamonds, uranium, rare earth elements and iron ore in over 20 countries.
Principal Mineral Resource Associate
Oscar Retto MAIG
Oscar Retto has 28 years of experience in geological modeling, resource estimation, technical assessments for economic evaluations, mineral resource updates, geostatistical analysis for exploration projects, open-pit, and underground operating mines in North and South America, and Australia.
Mining
Principal Mine Engineer
Willie Hamilton P. Eng.
Willie Hamilton is a Principal Mining Engineer with over 30 years of mine operations and consulting experience. Proficient in surface mine planning, reserve estimation, and financial analysis, Willie is a team player with strong interpersonal and communications skills acquired through previous roles in the mining industry. Willie has provided due diligence and engineering support for both North American and international projects. An experienced mine planning software user, most recently with MineSight™ applications, allows Willie to troubleshoot issues and develop quick solutions. Willie is an effective team leader and mentor and is currently a CIM Peer Reviewer for Surface Mining papers.
Prinicipal Mine Engineer
Kirk Hanson P.E.
Kirk Hanson has 32 years of experience in operations, engineering, management, and consulting roles within the mining industry. He is an MBA and is a Registered Professional Mining Engineer in multiple states. Kirk has 13 years of operational and mine engineer experience at large open-pit mines located in Northern Nevada. He was a planning engineer for the start-up of a roaster project and a mine expansion at Cortez Gold Mines and a Chief Engineer at Barrick’s Goldstrike operation, where he was responsible for all aspects of open-pit mining, mine designs, mine expansions, and strategic planning. After earning an MBA in 2004, he was assistant manager of operations and maintenance for the largest road department in Idaho. In 2007, he joined AMEC (now Wood) as a Principal Mining Consultant and over the past 15 years, has been the mining lead for multiple scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies. Kirk’s expertise includes financial modeling, mine planning and optimization, and mine fleet design and costing.
Principal Mine Engineer
Todd Carstensen
Todd Carstensen has over 30 years of experience in mine planning and mine operations, working in corporate and mine site roles. Todd has diverse experience in team management, resource estimation, mine design, production scheduling, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, project evaluations, and financial modelling, combined with extensive international experience in North America, Africa, and South American including ex-pat positions in Peru.
Principal Mine Engineer
Antonio Peralta P. Eng.
Antonio Peralta has 38 years of experience in open pit mine planning, production scheduling, and cost estimating. Antonio has done extensive work with property evaluations, feasibility studies, financial and economic analysis, and due diligence with strong practical experience using Whittle, MineSight, and Surpac.
Senior Underground Mine Engineer
Julian Herbert P. Eng.
Julian Herbert has extensive experience working on NI 43-101 compliant and non-compliant studies. Julian has also developed a comprehensive knowledge of hardrock narrow vein mining and scheduling through his work on various mines across Canada. Julian takes pride in his ability to find solutions to unique challenges in his mine design and resource calculation work. As a result, Julian has worked on numerous unique projects including mine ventilation planning at Cameco and narrow vein gold in Timmins Ontario.
Senior Mine Engineer
Freddy Bravo
Freddy Bravo is a Senior Mining Engineer with over 21 years of practical experience in both mining operations and consulting, specializing in open pit, mine design and planning, ore resource and reserve evaluation, and economic analysis. Freddy has worked on different projects in Canada, the U.S.A., South America, and Africa, and has held senior positions with several mining companies. An enthusiastic customer-driven leader, Freddy effectively uses his expertise in MineSight,™ M24D, Ventsim, Minescape, and Minecad to advance client projects. As a specialist in other mining optimization tools, such as MineSight's Scheduler Optimizer and MS Haulage, Freddy is able to quickly assess client needs.
As a Senior Mine Engineer with AGP, Freddy works as the lead mining engineer on various projects and provides peer reviews on NI 43-101 compliant reports and technical assistance to many of our clients.
Principal Mine Engineer
Lawrence Elgert
Lawrence has 32 years of experience in mine planning and design, ore control, geomechanics, production forecasting and management, slope stability monitoring, and operations, mainly for open-pit metal and coal mines in North America.
Process & Metallurgy
Principal Process Engineer
Andy Holloway P. Eng
Andy has a solid record of achievement that spans several continents, and over 30 years of experience. Andy is knowledgeable in operational plant management, process plant design and engineering, metallurgical test work, project management, and plant commissioning and optimization. His diverse and balanced career provides AGP with an excellent combination of theoretical process knowledge and real-world operational experience.
Senior Process Metallurgist
Neil Lincoln P. Eng.
Neil Lincoln has over 25 years of technical and leadership experience as a Mineral Processing Engineer and Study Manager in engineering consulting and operations related to the mining industry. Neil has extensive experience working with mining professionals and executives to review and develop their mineral projects during scoping, preliminary economic assessments, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies. As an Associate of AGP, Neil offers a wealth of experience in coordination of multi-discipline design teams, mineral processing design, review of process engineering deliverables, capital and operating cost estimating, financial study and modelling, and study and NI 43-101 Technical Report collaboration.
Consulting Metallurgist
Jeff Woods P. Eng.
Jeff Woods has over 40 years of experience as a specialist in mineral processing and hydrometallurgical operations, with an emphasis on heap leaching, crushing and grinding, flotation, plant construction, commissioning, operations, and process optimization. Jeff has a strong background in metallurgical and mineral processing testing and process flowsheet development. Using experimental design methods and statistical analyses, Jeff has identified and implemented remedies for several production bottlenecks and process improvements as well as developed several proprietary processes. Jeff is fluent in English and speaks intermediate Spanish and basic Portuguese.
Project Management
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Justin Taylor P. Eng.
Justin Taylor is a Senior Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in industries associated with large-scale multi-disciplinary capital engineering projects in the chemicals and minerals processing industry. His extensive background covers international projects in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Angola, and Kazakhstan. Justin is a driven self-starter with strong written and oral communication skills and superior organizational abilities required for this type of work, skills that he has successfully implemented in many projects.
We're not currently hiring, but are always interested in hearing from talented members of the mining community.