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Mr. Woods is a metallurgical engineer with 23 years of experience in mine development and mineral processing, and has an excellent track record in designing, building and operating gold processing facilities throughout North America.
Highlights from Jeff's career include being part of the commissioning and operating team for the Hycroft-Crofoot gold mine in Nevada. Hycroft is a large tonnage, disseminated gold deposit, similar to Freegold's Almaden deposit. Hycroft produced approximately 1.1 million ounces of gold as an open pit, heap leach mine with average grades comparable to those at Almaden. Jeff also served on the commissioning and operating team of Kennecott's 15,000 ton per day Rawhide open pit, heap leach mine in Nevada and Santa Fe Gold/Newmont's autoclave, flotation and CIL plant expansions at the Lone Tree Mine in Nevada. In addition, Jeff has acted as Senior Metallurgical Engineer or Project Manager for numerous mine feasibility studies, mine developments, project expansions and operations, including the Kennsington gold project in Alaska, a cobalt mine concentrate and hydrometallurgical plant in Idaho, and numerous plant modifications for Newmont.
Jeff has established and run three full scale metallurgical laboratories, and was the founder and President of Woods-Gelati, Inc., a Nevada based environmental and process engineering consulting firm. Most recently, Jeff was a Senior Process Engineer/Project Manager at the Washington Group in Denver, and prior to that a Senior Processing Engineer at Hatch Limited in Vancouver, two of the world's leading minerals engineering firms. | 