Brian Dawes
Non-Executive Director
Civil Engineering
Talisman Mining Limited
Australia
Biography
Brian is a mining engineer with 40 years of international mining industry experience. He holds a BSc in Mining from the University of Leeds UK, and is Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has worked and resided in the UK, Africa, Middle East and across Australia and holds several First Class Mine Managers' Certificates of Competency. Brian’s diverse expertise covers all key industry aspects from exploration through the discovery, feasibility, funding, approvals, project construction, commissioning, operations, optimisation, logistics, marketing and closure phases. This includes on-site management and corporate responsibilities in a diversity of challenging and successful underground and open pit operations across many commodities and geographies, with emphasis on copper, nickel, gold, zinc and lead, iron ore, graphite and coal. Prior to joining Talisman, Brian held senior positions with Jubilee Mines, Western Areas, LionOre Australia, WMC, Normandy Mining, Aberfoyle, Cyprus Gold, Minproc Engineers and MIM.
Research Interest
Civil Engineering
