A former Executive General Manager of Barrick Gold’s Lumwana Copper Mine in Zambia, Mr Ash is an experienced American Mining Engineer and modernizing leader, with a proven track record of building and leading teams capable of optimizing and enhancing the operating efficiency, profitability and sustainability of mining operations in complex and challenging environments.
During his tenure at Lumwana Mr. Ash Delivered over $100M in sustainable free cash flow improvements, achieved 50% improvement in safety performance, executed a training and development program achieving 96% local workforce, and progressed expansion plans that doubled the value of mine.
BEng Mining Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla; MA in Strategic Leadership, London Business School.
A former COO of Barrick Gold Corporation from 2015-2018, Mr. Williams is a global executive with an established track-record of value creation, pioneering and transformational leadership within the Mining Industry and other demanding assignments. Amongst other notable achievements, this helped Barrick deliver an 80% improvement in the company’s operating profit over his three years, and the total overhaul of the Company’s relationship with the Tanzanian Government following a breakdown of relations between a Barrick subsidiary and that government.
Formerly, the CEO of an African and Central Asian focused exploration business, and Non-Executive Director of Gem Diamonds PLC, he was also the Commanding Officer of the British Special Forces Regiment – the SAS. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Trevali Mining Corporation, Chair of Trevali’s HSEC Committee and an advisor to mining companies facing complex operational, political or ESG challenges.
BSc Economics, University College London; MA Security Studies, Kings College London; MBA Cranfield University.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome to the Bunker Hill Mining Live Summit hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce our speakers for today, Richard Williams, the Executive Chairman and Sam Ash, CEO. They'll take us through a company presentation, Speaker 1: and after that, we'll be accepting questions. As a reminder, you can submit your questions in the chat at any point during the presentation. Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact the Bunker Hill team, feel free to fill out the survey, which will be linked in the chat. As always, the summit is being recorded and will be available on six.com to watch afterwards. Speaker 1: Without further ado, I'd like to hand things over to you gentlemen so that we can get started. Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Mike Suman. Thank you, 6, for setting this up for us Speaker 2: and for all of those Speaker 2: that have dialed in. Speaker 2: Today's presentation is gonna be split into 2 parts. Speaker 2: Firstly, I'm gonna talk about what's happening in the world Speaker 2: with respect to Speaker 2: global supply chains, Speaker 2: zinc, silver, Speaker 2: and where the United States Speaker 2: is looking at the development Speaker 2: of that supply chain and how Bunker Hill could fit into it. Speaker 2: And then I'm going to hand over to Sam, who's going to talk to the specifics Speaker 2: of the restart project, Speaker 2: as well as the subsequent value creation Speaker 2: that is actually ongoing Speaker 2: at the moment. Speaker 2: So in the 1st part of this, Speaker 2: I want to sort of highlight, and anybody that is watching the news will have picked up parts of this, how we look Speaker 2: at how the zinc market, Speaker 2: and I would refer to the zinc market here Speaker 2: specifically, Speaker 2: because it's 1 of the critica...
