Name: Paul Ahren
Position: Senior Mining Consultant
Paul has extensive
open cut and underground mine engineering experience gained from working in Australian and International mining operations. In particular, he has extensive experience in
the drill and blast area. Paul's expertise lies in drill and blast, technical and operations, and also in financial analysis.
Skills/Expertise
- Drill & Blast Design or Technical Advice
- Drill & Blast Operations
- Mining Conceptual & Other Project Studies
- Financial Analysis
Experience
- 2003 - current: MB Mining Consultants
- 1990 - 2003: Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific Ltd (QLD, NT, NSW, WA, SA)
- 1989 - 1990: Eltin Contractors, Mt Pleasant Mine (WA)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Engineering, Mining
- SA Shot Firers License
Software
experience:
- XPAC
Scheduling package used for mine planning
- Talpac
Truck and loader productivity package
used for analysis of cycle times
- Vulcan
Mine planning package used for pit
and bench design, as well as generation
of volumes and qualities
- Blast Design
Design and simulation packages
including Blastec design, TunnPlan,
CompuBlast and the JKMRC software suite.
- Blast Monitoring
Numerous blast monitoring packages,
including Blastronics, Instantel, Terrock
and Nitroconsult.
