Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Evaluation of Strategic Materials and rare earth commodity supply chain. Strategic Materials Expert. Rare Earths, industrial minerals and specialty metals, conducting assessment research used in characterizing the economic and business aspects of strategic material acquisition for aerospace, defense and high technology applications. Extensive survey experience contacting raw material producers and manufacturing sectors for defense and civilian industries. Dynamic market in-depth analyses of macro and micro economic trends and trade issues; Assessment of supply chain performances and commercial stage developments for industry production of identified strategic materials; Evaluation of emerging technologies and new market entrants for commercial material processing; Business Case analyses; Material Mitigation Strategies; Business and technical feasibility analyses; Reserves and Resources mandate definitions and compliance; Sustainability assessment capability to differentiate variable commodity unit markets in compliant business practices; Industry operational profitability and cost profile examinations (CAPEX/OPEX/Revenues); Database architectures and query investigations for scientific and engineering fields controlled with QS qualifiers; Business, education and work experience in economics; mineral appraisals/valuations-commodity assessments and material flows; Supply and Demand principles and applied concepts evaluations
Global exploration strategy for mineral and chemical feedstock concentrates to fully vertically integrated supply-chain industry producer of rare earth oxides and compounds.
• Global Exploration. Implementation of phased strategic plan for expanding mineral reserves and resources, deployment of logistical and tactical programs for managing diversity of mineral feeds to Molycorp rare-earth refineries; QA/QC program and creation of standards for maintaining sample data system from all information capture sources; replacement of net depletion; • Business Synergies. Development of mineral technologies for opening opportunities of innovation and research on disruptive technologies in compatible mining and process operations partners for off -take of rare earths. • Digital Graphics Carrier Systems. Integration of GIS, GPS, 3-D mine-plan modeling applications for characterizing geologic systems for predictive interpretation and evaluation of economic ore/commodity terranes.
• Minerals Information Commodity Specialist GS-13. Monitor and collect commodity information and statistical data for factual and interpretive reports published for the public and private sectors and the U.S. government. Analyze and validate data. USGS principal commodities contact for rare earth elements (REE) and thorium, and secondary contact for zirconium. Comprehensive knowledge for these mineral commodities in: economics, application and use, global and domestic reserves and resources, annual survey inventory of mine production and refinery processing plant capacities as well as exploration and development efforts. Compilation of individual REE material balance through import/export studies to analyze U.S. supply and demand issues driving consumption.
• Curation of Global Resources Information Archives Evaluated decades of corporate historic and legacy data, reports and drilling records from metallurgical, geologic and exploration investigations in preparation for reference storage in digital medium format. Systematic organization for query-based GIS driven computer system.
• Consultant. Provided contract/fee-based consultation to international private and publicly owned mineral and energy resource companies seeking to conduct exploration, and secure resource assets. Advised stakeholders in the titanium and zirconium industry sectors as well as the iron/steel/specialty metals sectors and provided confidential proprietary core business data. • Research. Primary level research for firms invested in titanium, zirconium and rare earths. Collection of material and sample archive inventories for prospecting mineral targets. Identification of favorable and permissive mineral resource terrains. Economic evaluations of mineral commodities and construction material resources. Implemented collateral QA/QC systems for multivariable earth science data bases. Performed mineralogy, metallurgy and geochemical research. • Proprietary S-Corporation Capital Venture. Developed U.S. mineral sands deposits through the pre-feasibility phases and worked a two year promotional campaign for the start-up of Greenfields premier heavy mineral mining operations. Acquired exploration permits and operational lease agreements, negotiated exclusive off-take sales contracts. Completed project feasibility studies and promoted prospects for venture capital financing. Invented new disruptive technologies for modifying concentrator equipment with testing that demonstrated improving yields, recoveries and economics. Designed advanced innovative milling equipment differentiators for installation on plant scale operations. Developed a growth potential strategy and presented favorable EBITDA, free cash flow and pre-feasibility studies to risk venture capitalists considering joint ventures.