Specialized technical expertise built through hands-on exploration, development, production, and project execution across global fertilizer mineral projects.
Extensive experience with marine sedimentary phosphate deposits across West Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa. Deep understanding of stratigraphy, depositional environments, and grade controls in both shallow and deep phosphate horizons.
Knowledge of carbonatite and alkaline complex-hosted apatite mineralization, including geological characteristics, exploration strategies, and processing requirements.
Expertise in bedded and solution-mined evaporite potash systems, mineralogical variations, stratigraphic controls, and structural complexities affecting extraction.
End-to-end exploration capability from regional target generation to detailed resource definition. Integration of geological, geophysical, geochemical, and drilling data into coherent geological models.
Experienced in NI 43-101 and JORC compliant mineral resource estimates supporting financing, permitting, and mine planning — grounded in operational reality.
Direct phosphate mine production experience including open-pit design, selective mining, equipment optimization, dewatering, and waste handling.
Evaluation of underground potash mining methods including room-and-pillar, longwall, and solution mining systems.
Practical beneficiation expertise covering washing, flotation, magnetic separation, calcination, acid leaching, crystallization, and solution mining recovery — grounded in testwork and operational problem solving.
Senegal-Mauritania Basin, production operations, permitting, logistics, and export infrastructure.
Jordan and regional phosphate development, water constraints, and regulatory frameworks.
Technical due diligence across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Coordination of multidisciplinary teams to deliver feasibility studies, development plans, and execution strategies aligned with technical, commercial, environmental, and social requirements.
Deep understanding of global phosphate and potash markets, cost structures, trade flows, product specifications, and the strategic importance of fertilizer minerals to food security.