Torben Jensen, P.Eng., is Principal Mining Engineer for RPA. Mr. Jensen has over 35 years of progressive engineering experience in the mining industry covering a wide variety of mining methods and commodities. His commodities experience includes coal, gold, silver, nickel, lead, zinc, uranium, asbestos, potash, copper, and diamonds. Mr. Jensen’s experience ranges from on-site production engineering to senior head office engineering positions and most recently corporate development.

Scott Ladd, P.Eng., is a Principal Mining Engineer with over 20 years of experience.  Mr. Ladd has expertise in operations, projects, strategic planning, business optimization and growth, with diverse international and professional experience, including extended in country experience in Asia, Latin America and Russia and operational, executive and consulting roles.

Mr. Ladd’s consulting experience includes overseeing and completing mine design, scheduling, cost modeling, reserve estimation and project reporting for scoping, prefeasibility and feasibility level studies.  Scott Ladd also held senior management positions with Kinross Gold Corporation where he was responsible for directing, evaluating, monitoring, and providing strategic planning/mine planning guidance and support for the company’s operating and development activities in the U.S.A., Russia, Brazil, and Chile. 

Scott Ladd is a proficient user of Deswik, Mine24D, Earthworks Production Scheduler, AutoCAD, Runge Xeras, Geovia Whittle, SAP, Microsoft Project and PrimaVera.

Grant Malensek, P. Eng./P.Geo., Principal Engineer is a Geological Engineer with over 20 years’ experience preparing project finance models, mineral property valuations, and valuations for the international arbitrations in the mining industry. Prior to joining RPA, Mr. Malensek was a Mineral Project Evaluation Consultant for a consulting firm where he carried out fatal flaw, due diligence and Independent Engineer reviews for equity and project financings. Earlier in his career, Mr. Malensek spent 10 years as a mineral exploration/development geologist for several major mining firms in Canada, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, USA, and Peru.     Mr. Malensek’s consulting experience includes scoping level to feasibility studies, capital cost estimates and reviews, mine strategy, and options analysis and project evaluations in connection with mergers and acquisitions.Content coming soon.

Goran Andric, P.Eng., is Principal Mining Engineer at RPA.  Mr. Andric has over 23 years of operational and consulting experience as an open pit mining engineer in coal, base and precious metal projects located in America, Europe, Asia and Africa.  Prior to joining RPA, he was Principal Mining Engineer with an international mining consulting firm where his consulting assignments included conceptual and feasibility studies, project management, open pit mine design and planning, equipment selection and costing, economic analysis and practical solutions for operational improvements.  Mr. Andric uses MineSight, Whittle, and Gemcom software.

Jeff Sepp, P.Eng., is a Senior Mining Engineer with over 15 years of experience in mine planning, design, and scheduling, and ventilation design and implementation.  Mr. Sepp’s experience includes open pit and underground mining operations and development stage projects in Canada, USA, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Turkey, Mali, Ghana, Tanzania, and Sweden.  Mr. Sepp is an experienced user of MineRP software including Mine2-4D, EPS, and MineCAD planning and scheduling software.

Ian Weir, P.Eng., is a Senior Mining Engineer with hands-on experience in open pit copper and gold mining operations in Northern Chile and Nevada, USA.  His experience includes life of mine planning, optimizing extraction sequences, budgets, equipment selection and forecasting, mine development, mine production, and mine safety.  Mr. Weir is fluent in English and Spanish.

David Robson, P.Eng., is a Senior Mining Engineer with 15 years of experience in the mining industry.  His experience includes underground mine design and engineering roles at uranium, industrial minerals, and base metals operations in Canada and Europe.  He is a user of Vulcan, VentSim, AutoCAD, and Deswik.  Mr. Robson holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business specializing in Global Mining Management and Strategy.

Derek Holm, BSc., FSAIMM, is a Senior Mining Engineer with 18 years production and project experience which includes mine design and scheduling for open pit and underground mines, mine optimization, Mineral Reserve estimation, and analysis of production options with the aim of improving production.  Mr. Holm has been involved in planning projects and operations across Africa and Asia and has carried out extensive work with mining Institutes in the Former Soviet Union countries.  Derek’s commodities experience includes gold, iron ore, copper, phosphate, platinum, chrome, coal, and manganese.   Derek graduated from University of Witwatersrand in 2000 with a BSc in Mining Engineering, is a Member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM).  Derek is a user of Mine 2-4D, Deswik and Whittle software packages.

Manuel Cortes, MBA, Manager – Economic Analysis and Valuations, has over 13 years of experience working with various multi-national companies in mining, oil and gas, and construction as an engineer and as a business consultant.  Mr. Cortes’ areas of expertise include corporate development, mergers and acquisition, due diligence, project studies, economic analysis and valuations, financial modeling, cost estimating, project management, planning and control, and maintenance. 

Prior to joining RPA Mr. Cortes was an independent business consultant providing support to mining companies in the areas of mining projects’ evaluation, financial modelling, and other finance-related topics.  Prior to his work as an independent consultant Mr. Cortes was the Manager Corporate Development for Primero Mining Corp and was Manager Project Evaluations, Capital Projects for Barrick Gold Corporation.

Manuel Cortes  has served as Guest Lecturer Global Mining Management at York University’s Schulich School of Business.