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: Hello everyone and welcome to Bunker Hill Mining's live investment summit today hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce the CEO of Bunker Hill, Sam Ash, as well as the CFO, David Weins. Dave and Sam are going to walk us through a company presentation, show us a video, and then afterwards, they'll be taking some questions live. I'd like to remind everyone in the audience that you can ask questions at any time using the Q&A panel found on the right-hand side of your screen. As always, this event is being recorded. And in the coming days, it'll be available to watch on six.com. Speaker 1: Without further ado, Sam, I'd like to hand things over to you to get started. Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much. Welcome everybody this morning. It's really a pleasure to be able to do another Speaker 2: pretty significant Speaker 2: project update. We've been busy since our last call about a month ago, and in that time we've made an awful lot of progress. Speaker 2: We'll go through some of the details of where we're at and why we're having such a great summer. But to kick off, we have a little bit of a video like we did last time, introducing you to the project, showing you some of the progress actually on the ground, Speaker 2: and meeting some of our business partners and team members that are really leading to the success of this project. So Speaker 2: Without any further ado, let's start with a video and then we'll get into the discussion in the slides. Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Justin Hoffman with Hoffman Manufacturing. We're here at the Pend Oreille mine in Medellin Falls, Washington. Speaker 3: We're contracted with Bunker Hill Speaker 3: and the Silver Valley Metal Corp team Speaker 3: to decommission Speaker 3: and transport Speaker 3: the Pend Oreille mill to Bunker Hi...
