Speaker: Ben Murphy - Head of Regional Product Line Management - FL Smidth
The presentation will discuss the gap in understanding between the sustainability people and operations/maintenance people in mining. It will cover why operations and sustainability teams should work together to make incremental improvements to operational efficiency, how multiple incremental improvements can add up to a reduction in resource consumption and leads to improved profitability. Practical examples from case studies will be presented on how we can all work together to make our operations more sustainable.
Ben has been involved the mining industry for the majority of his working life and has experienced the industry from some very different perspectives. Firstly, working in base metal concentrators around the world (Australia, Indonesia, Ireland and South Africa) in technical and managerial roles. More recently he has worked for mineral processing equipment suppliers. During the pandemic he co-founded the Executive Micro-Certificate in Economic Leadership in Mining offered through MiningEd / BRIMM at the University of British Columbia. The program (a mini, mining focused, business course) is to enable better decision making across the mining industry and to encourage cross profession co-operation.