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.
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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Bunker Hill Mining's Live Investment Summit today, hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce our speaker today, CEO of Bunker Hill, Sam Ash. Sam's going to walk us through a few slides today and after we'll be taking some questions live. Remember, you can submit your questions using the Q&A panel found on the right hand side of your screen at any time during today's presentation. Speaker 1: And as always, this event is being recorded, will be available to watch on six.com Speaker 1: in the coming days. Without further ado, Sam, the floor is yours. Speaker 2: Thank you very much. And it's a pleasure to speak with everyone today. And this is going to be a little bit different Speaker 2: of a presentation today, because you're going to see that we're beginning to make the transition Speaker 2: from talking about what our plans are and talking about how those plans are actually going. So it's really exciting and it's a pleasure to be talking to you today. Speaker 2: And we'll start off with underground development. Speaker 2: So we have started the underground development and rehabilitation Speaker 2: in preparation Speaker 2: for production. Speaker 2: What you see here is a picture of the 1st decline that we're doing. And this is a pretty important decline. It really unlocks Speaker 2: the opportunity at Bunker Hill. 1, 800 feet, and we will join up with an existing internal ramp. And at that point, we'll have roughly a 3rd of the mineralization Speaker 2: accessible Speaker 2: for mining. And Speaker 2: that's a big step forward. Speaker 2: So to get to this point, we did quite a bit of rehabilitation and we've been hard at work at that over the last few months. We have installed ventilation fans Speaker 2: and we have active ventilatio...
