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During Mr. Hunter's 30-year career in the mining industry he has been involved in all aspects of mine development ranging from feasibility and mine engineering studies, through mine production supervision at both mine site and corporate levels, mine general management, senior technical support roles and as a consulting engineer. His experience covers both open pit and underground mining and a variety of commodities including copper, gold, nickel, various other base metals, bauxite, coal and industrial minerals. Currently resident in Australia, Mr. Hunter has extensive international experience having lived and worked in Chile, Suriname, Peru, South Africa, Indonesia, Spain and Australia. Mr. Hunter divides his time between the Brisbane design office and the project office in Minnesota
For a significant part of his career Mr. Hunter has been involved in project evaluation and development work both as a consulting engineer representing prospective investors and as part of a mining company's technical evaluation team. He has managed or taken a leading role in feasibility studies in Spain (tungsten), Suriname (bauxite), Western Australia (zinc/lead and bauxite), New Caledonia (nickel), Chile (gold), South Africa (zinc, gold, tungsten and coal), Sweden (copper/gold) and Colombia (nickel and coal) and has been involved in numerous project evaluations and due diligence assessments in locations as far afield as Australia (gold, coal and copper), Greece (copper/gold), Siberia (copper/gold), Peru (gold & base metals), Indonesia (gold & coal), China (gold & coal), Solomon Islands (gold) and Papua New Guinea (nickel & gold).
Prior to joining PolyMet Mining Corp. Mr. Hunter worked for Hatch Associates as their Regional Director for mining and mineral processing. Before that, with SRK Consulting as Principal Mining Engineer, for MIM Holdings Ltd as Group Mining Engineer and as General Manager Mining -- Mt Isa Mines and as General Manager for a Chilean gold mining company. Prior to that Mr. Hunter worked for 17 years with Shell's mining subsidiary, Billiton International Metals BV in a variety of international and head office roles.
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