Mr Weston has 30 years' experience as a consultant in the mining industry. After graduation he joined Peko-Wallsend (later North Mining) working as Production Metallurgist at the gold/copper operation at Mt Morgan, Queensland, in 1976 transferring to the Scheelite mine on King Island achieving the position of Deputy Manager/Metallurgical Superintendent. In 1989 Terry transferred to North Mining's office in Perth to oversee North's gold operations in W.A. and assist in the design and construction of the Kanowna Belle gold mine. After twenty years working for North Mining, he ventured out as an independent Metallurgical Consultant and during the next thirty years consulted to big and small mining companies. These included Harmony Gold Australia (Jubilee Gold operation) Harmony Gold PNG Services (Hidden Valley Gold project), Newcrest Mining (O'Callaghan's Tungsten project), Athena Resources Limited (Byro Magnetite project), Savannah Nickel Mines (Nickel/Copper/Colbalt operation), Gold Road Resources (Gruyere Gold operation) and Doray Minerals (Andy Well Gold operation) to mention a few. Terry's expertise includes, gold, copper/gold, nickel/copper/cobalt, iron ore, tungsten, mineral sands, tantalum/tin, lithium and uranium. He specialises in taking a project from exploration, laboratory testwork (design of test program and review), process design and construction to operation/production. During the last thirty years he has acted on occasions as client representative working with engineering companies to bring projects to production. Mr Weston is responsible for developing laboratory test programs, review of testwork results through to optimisation of process design and planned construction, together with providing a treatment process for the Byro magnetite project, including process mass balance calculations plus review of individual items of capital for the processing plant.
