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Session 5

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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Speaker

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Anne-Marie Ebbels
Principal Strategic Planning Engineer
OZ Minerals

Day 2 Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30 AM - 8:35 AM

Biography

Anne-Marie is an underground specialists in mine planning, ore reserves and technical reviews. A qualified mining engineer with a passion for optimization and improving the value of projects. Her knowledge extends from large ore bodies mining methods through to narrow vein selective mining methods. Anne-Marie enjoys the unique challenges that each project has and applying her knowledge to maximize the value of the project. Anne-Marie gives back to the industry through being a member of the AusIMM organizing committee for the Underground Operators Conference Series. Anne-Marie is a chartered professional member of the Australasia Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM).
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Ms Jo-Anne Dudley
Chief Operating Officer
Turquoise Hill Resources

Keynote | Concept to Delivery: Reflections on mine planning at Oyu Tolgoi over 18 years

8:35 AM - 9:20 AM

Biography

Ms. Dudley has 25 years of experience in the mining industry. For the past nine years she has been a key member of the Oyu Tolgoi technical team that manages the development of the world-scale Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia in consultation with Turquoise Hill. Most recently she led Oyu Tolgoi's 30-person Strategic Mine and Resources Planning unit. Prior to commencing her work on Oyu Tolgoi, Ms. Dudley spent five years working with Rio Tinto's technical group on mines in South Africa and the USA. Before that she worked in underground mines across Australia as an Underground contractor and spent nearly ten years in Operations and Studies roles at the Northparkes copper and gold mine in central New South Wales, Australia. During her time at Northparkes, it developed from an open pit operation to an underground mine using block caving, similar to the development path at Oyu Tolgoi. Ms. Dudley graduated from the University of New South Wales as a mining engineer in 1994. She holds a New South Wales Below Ground Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency, and a Graduate Certificate in Technology Management. A Chartered Professional engineer, Ms. Dudley was awarded Fellow membership in 2016 from the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, was selected as the 2018 Exceptional Woman in Queensland Resources, and was also honoured to be named as one of the WIM 2018 Global 100 Inspirational Women in Mining.
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Mr Adrian Penney
Geotechnical Practice Lead – Zinc Global
Glencore

Integrated multi-disciplinary auditing and benchmarking of catastrophic hazards for underground mining operations

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Biography

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Mr Daniel Bruce
Superintendent - Mine Projects
OZ Minerals

Dashboards, data sources and a modern data platform

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Biography

Daniel Bruce is a mining engineer with 10 years' experience in underground mining operations. This experience spans typical mining engineering and operations management roles, as well as mining projects. Daniel has a strong interest in technology and innovation, with a focus on practical solutions to real world problems.
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Steven Donaldson
Partner and Co-Founder
Polymathian

Session 5 | Q&A

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Biography

Steven is a mathematician, software developer, and founding partner at Polymathian. He has over 11 years of experience applying operations research techniques to solve and deploy optimisation, simulation, and machine learning decision support tools to industry. Steven has worked across a wide range of domains including mining; rolling stock optimisation; logistics; vehicle routing; traffic management; coal seam gas; and aviation. He is passionate about working directly with clients to understand how to best combine technological innovation and mathematics to unlock value in their business. Steven's key achievements in this space include the development of ORB, the first optimisation based real-time dispatch system for underground mines, as well as Tropofy, the central framework that enables Polymathian to rapidly build and deploy user-focused web applications to clients. Steven regularly engages with the universities in Brisbane across both mathematics and software faculties, including recently providing feedback to the QUT mathematics re-accreditation process.

Session Chair

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Steven Donaldson
Partner and Co-Founder
Polymathian

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