Meet The Team
Pardon Mathebula
His aim is to obtain a quantitative understanding of orebody variability and its impacts on the performance of manganese beneficiation plants.
MEng Chemical Engineering
Tinotenda Katsumbe
Her research project is investigating how data science-based methods can be utilized to quantify mineralogy within a specific area.
MEng Industrial (Data Engineering)
Louis van Eeden
Louis intends to compare the utility of implicit modelling with traditional 3D box modelling techniques.
MSc Earth Science
Noko Sekwati
His study focuses on characterizing the structural and geochemical controls of the Makganyene greenfields exploration project, just outside of Postmansburg.
MSc Earth Science
Emma Daugherty
Her thesis is aimed at conducting a techno-economic pre-feasibility assessment on the by-products from the ChlorLeach process at an ARM mine.
MEng Chemical Engineering
Ethan Mack
His project revolves around manganese characterization using a machine learning based approach to allow for geometallurgical characteristics of the ore to be incorporated.
MSc Earth Science
Khuliso Netshikulwe
Her research strives to find the best geo-metallurgical techniques that can be used to process low-grade iron ores, which were previously classified as waste or of non-economic value.
MSc Earth Science
Dr Bjorn Von der Heyden
Doctor Bjorn Von der Heyden is one of the two ARM geometallurgy chairs. Bjorn is based in the Department of Earth Science where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Geology.
ARM Chair
Dr Margreth Tadie
Doctor Margreth Tadie is the other ARM geometallurgy chair. She is found at the Department of Processing Engineering and completed a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at UCT.
ARM Chair