Alan Kucurs

Alan is a Mining Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the Mining Industry. He has worked on large scale mineral sands dredging and dry mining operations in Australia and overseas for companies such as Iluka, Cristal, Tronox, and Eramet. He has been involved with taking mines from study level through construction and to successful operation.

Alan was the Technical Services Manager from inception for TiZir’s Grande Cote Operations in Senegal, West Africa, which is the largest single dredge mineral sands operation in the world. Alan’s specialist skills are in mine design and planning, mine optimisation and equipment selection, project and contractor management, and in leadership of mining teams.