Alexander Elliot

Background

About Alexander Elliot

Focused on experiencing the full spectrum of complex hydrometallurgical resource development • From flowsheet development through to optimised commercial operation • From the micro scale working at the coal face through to the macro scale of strategy • From the needs and challenges of today to positioning for the future • From the narrow perspective of a metallurgist to a broad spectrum addressing a diversity of stakeholder needs within the wider organisation and beyond to external stakeholdersHighlights from time at Arafura developing the Nolans flowsheet1] Invention of an innovative flowsheet to process Nolans relatively low-grade rare earth enriched apatite concentrate to produce rare earth and phosphoric acid products, which is the subject of two patentshttps://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/20/d7/f7/048e6850f591fa/WO2019210368A1.pdfhttps://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/5c/f7/5b/219ed95f911a9f/WO2019210367A1.pdf2] Completion of laboratory scale development with piloting from concentrate through to separated rare earth oxide - Integrity, accuracy, reliability, quality, thoughtful, considerate, honest, and persistentHolistic Strategic Thinking – Consider all of the complementary and sometime contradictory detail at hand from macro to micro and micro back to macro with iteration to find optimal path solutions that deliver on objectivesHydrometallurgy - Intuitive understanding of hydrometallurgical systemsMineralogy - Sophisticated understanding of mineralogical characterisation and its application to hydrometallurgical systemsFlowsheet Development - End to end; conceptualise, test, model, iterate, optimise and demonstrateTest Work - Full spectrum; design, plan, scope, execute, analyse, interpret, report, and manage hydrometallurgical test work at both batch and pilot scaleResearch and Data Analysis - Collect, interpret, adapt and apply qualitative and quantitative information, concepts, and theories from diverse sourcesReport Writing - Developed, refined and evolvingModelling - Both Excel and SysCADDesign - Design criteria, block and process flow diagrams, as well as process descriptionsTechnical Management - Batch and pilot scale test work development programs conducted at commercial laboratories, and the preparation of foundational design documents and mass balance models for Engineering DesignKnowledge Transfer - Formal and informal, written, spoken, and illustrative