OUR TEAM
Piran Mining Team
Timothy Peters
(ACSM, FAusIMM, MIOM3)
Founder and Principal Mining Engineer
Graduated from the Camborne School of Mines in 1990.
Tim has international mining experience gained from working in gold, copper, and nickel mining operations within South Africa, Tasmania, and Western Australia. He has worked on a range of projects from Greenfield to near-mine in Australia, Canada, Finland, DRC, Mali, Ghana, PNG, and Brazil, as well as operational underground hard rock mines.
His experience and expertise include;
Project Management of Feasibility and Pre-Feasibility studies, Underground Mine Design, Mine scheduling within high stress and seismically active operations, Setup of green field operations, Ore Reserves and Resource reviews, Hoist shaft evaluation and rehabilitation, and Financial modeling and risk assessment analysis.
Helen Webster
Senior Geo Engineer
We are excited to announce yet another highly skilled addition to our Piran UK team with the recent engagement of Helen Webster!
Helen Webster B.Eng (Hons) FGS.
Helen graduated from CSM in 2002 in Industrial Geology and has worked for more than 20 years in Cornwall for the local authority, undertaking Ground Investigation works supporting civil engineering designs for highways, earthworks and structural projects, both new and historical. This has included dealing with historical mining subsidence issues which are prevalent in West Cornwall. Helen has extensive experience in the field running GI sites as well as direct project management. This includes the geotechnical assessment process, ground monitoring, project logistics, project resourcing and financial tracking.
Helen excels at navigating the complexities of project management, including environmental, social, and political sensitivities, as well as budgetary and time constraints. She is adept at liaising diplomatically with land and asset owners, relevant authorities, and trusts, ensuring that project goals remain the priority.
Justin Longley
Resource Development / Exploration Manager
Justin is an international consulting geologist & project manager with +25 years’ experience in delivering international projects in challenging environments.
His experience includes field placements on projects in W. Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya DRC, Angola and Botswana.
Justin retains a keen focus on technical excellence as well as helping to train the next generation of mining professionals.
Lawrence Sullivan
Associate Senior Open Pit Engineer
Lawrence has ten years of experience in the mining industry in operational, technical and consulting roles in both open pit as well as underground mines. Lawrence has been a Mining Engineer and Consultant working on projects across Australia, Africa, South America and Europe.
Lawrence is a pit optimisation, pit design and strategic planning specialist. He is a proficient user in Datamine Studio OP/NPVS, Whittle and MineSched among others.
Angus Bradford
Mine Control Systems / Geospatial Lead
Angus has over 2 decades experience in leadership positions in the mining and geomatics industry. He has accumulated both operational and strategic skills.
Experienced in setting up new operations, building from the ground up with control networks, topographic site surveys, mineral accounting, building operational teams and ensuring that there is sustained improvement.
Angus has a track record of cross-functional networking and of achieving support and commitment from executive leadership and stakeholders to embed change.
Recent projects include the implementation of drone mapping, fleet management systems, communication networks, machine guidance, autonomous production drilling, a machine learning system on a copper concentrator, and automated underground mining. Combined with his industry knowledge and broad skillset, Angus is a strong and highly focused leader who has enjoyed an outstanding multi-cultural career on three continents in several commodities.
Iain Thin
(ACSM, MAusIMM)
Associate Principal Geotechnical Engineer
K.S.C.A
Graduated from the Camborne School of Mines 1990 (Mining Engineering Degree) and 1994 (Geomechanics Ph.D.).
Specializing in underground mining geomechanics, Iain has experience across various Australian operations, as well as international (DRC, Ghana, Tanzania, Canada, USA, Peru, and Mongolia). The experience has covered copper, gold, silver, zinc, and nickel Hardrock operations that have encompassed SLOS, benching, and caving (BC and SLC) mining methods.
His experience and expertise include:
Geotechnical site support, mentoring, Geotechnical Review Boards, Pre-feasibility and Feasibility Studies, Ground Control Management Plans (development and review), Seismic Management Plans (development and review), External review of Cave Management Plans, Ground Support Standards – static and dynamic (development and review), Independent expert for Statements of Claim, Geotechnical Due Diligence, and Geotechnical reviews and assessments.
K.S.C.A and Piran Mining have worked together for over 10 years on multiple major projects internationally and within Australia.
Sheikhan Mohamed
(MAusIMM)
Senior Mining Engineer
Graduated from the Curtin University of Technology in 2005.
Sheikhan has experience in predominately underground metalliferous mines in Australia. His considerable operational planning experience across various underground mining methods and commodities, together with his pragmatic and motivated approach makes for a competent mining professional capable of taking on a range of projects from Scoping through to Feasibility studies.
His experience and expertise include;
Pragmatic underground mine designs, review, and optimization of medium and long-term schedules; complete infrastructure planning for u/g operations, mine optimization/ financial evaluations. He is also competent in using several of the mainstream mining packages.