Experts, with decades of experience in the mining industry

With over 45 years of experience in Mining Engineering and Operations, Geoff brings a very seasoned and proven set of skills to our AGP project teams. Although Geoff is an underground mining specialist, he has working knowledge of open-pit operations as well. Geoff has undertaken numerous Feasibility Studies and project management assignments over the course of his career and has led numerous study and audit teams on behalf of mining companies and financial institutions at mines around the world. Geoff offers a practical and experienced set of skills in mine design, planning and costing, and mine performance analysis. He is widely respected for his recommendations for improvements to mining methods, cost/benefit analysis, and detailed financial analyses of company cash flow projections and overall financing. Geoff has led negotiations with governments, contractors, and suppliers and has acted as a co-signatory for a number of Competent Persons and Canadian NI 43-101 reports.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manuel has over 30 years of experience predominantly in large and medium-size open pit mining operations with solid experience and knowledge in direction of mine engineering teams, mining studies, and execution of mining projects, as well as engineering consulting roles, primary at precious and basic metals properties in the Americas and Africa.

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.

With more than 30 years of international and domestic mining engineering experience, predominantly in open-pit mines, with additional underground and exploration experience, Jay Melnyk is recognized as an expert in pit optimization, pit phase design, mine scheduling, equipment selection, cost estimating, project management, resource modelling, and construction management.