John T. Postle, M.Sc., P.Eng. Email: John Postle is Consulting Mining Engineer with RPA. He was formerly a Principal and was a founding partner in 1985. Mr. Postle provides mining consulting services to a number of international financial institutions, corporations, utilities and law firms. He worked several years for two major mining companies at a number of open pit and underground operations in both operating and planning capacities. Mr. Postle is a Past Chairman of the Mineral Economics Committee of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer of the CIM in 1991. In 1997, he was awarded the CIM Robert Elver Mineral Economics Award. He is currently Chairman of a CIM Standing Committee on Ore Reserve Definitions.
Mr. Postle has extensive experience in mining operations, planning and management. As a mining consultant, he has been involved in a variety of assignments, including valuations of mineral projects, review of feasibility studies, monitoring of mine construction, reviews of ore reserves, estimation and confirmation of operating and capital costs, conceptual mine design, and cash flow modelling.
Mr. Postle has a B.A.Sc. Degree in Mining Engineering from the University of British Columbia and a M.Sc. Degree in Earth Sciences from Stanford University. He is a Member of several professional associations, and has published articles and addressed professional groups.
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