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SA NEWS On the move at SRK Marcin Wertz, SRK global board director. Chris Dalgliesh, SRK South Africa director. Global firm of engineers and scientists SRK Consulting has made a number of directorship and partnership appointments to its global board and South African leadership. South African partner Marcin Wertz, a mining engineer with over 31 years’ experience, has been appointed as a director to the SRK global board. Wertz’s expertise includes the reviewing of mining methods, underground layouts, and production scheduling for a range of underground hard rock mining conditions. He also conducts reserve audits, with an emphasis on the conversion of mineral resources to reserves. An important aspect of his work has been in the evaluation of underground operations, including issues of productivity. He also co- ordinates multidisciplinary Wouter Jordaan, SRK South Africa partner. teams in conducting mining studies, from scoping and full feasibility studies to bankable standard. SRK Consulting (South Africa) has appointed Cape Town-based partner Chris Dalgliesh as a director. With 25 years of experience across a range of sectors in Africa and South America, Dalgliesh directs, manages, and reviews environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) — focusing on ensuring compliance with Equator principles and IFC performance standards. SRK Consulting (South Africa) has also appointed a new partner and three associate partners. The new partner is Wouter Jordaan, who joined SRK in 2003 and is a principal environmental scientist in the SRK Durban office and a director of SRK’s DRC practice. His core roles Steve Bartels, SRK South Africa associate partner. Lindsay Linzer, SRK South Africa associate partner. are developing new business in East Africa and the DRC. He specialises in environmental due diligence, audits, ESIAs, closure planning, sustainability standard implementation, and geospatial analysis. He has extensive experience with greenfield and brownfield industrial developments across commodities and has been involved with various large scale linear infrastructure projects mainly related to power generation and electrification. The three new associate partners are Steve Bartels, Lindsay Linzer, and Sue Reuther. Bartels is a principal technologist in the SRK Johannesburg office, specialising in various aspects of civil engineering, and has been with SRK since 2011. Linzer has 23 years’ combined experience in the Sue Reuther, SRK South Africa associate partner. processing and interpretation of seismic waves and is a principal geophysicist in SRK’s Johannesburg office. She has a parti cular interest in mining seismology and has projects in the gold and platinum mining districts in South Africa and more recently, Sweden. Reuther, a principal environmental consultant in SRK’s Cape Town office, joined the firm in 2005, has a combined 15 years’ experience in environmental assessment, and has practiced as an environmental consultant since 2005. Besides managing environmental impact assessments as well as environmental and social due diligence reviews against IFC standards, she also undertakes specialist socio-economic and resource economic impact assessments. QUARRY SA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 _ 5