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John O. Marsden

John Marsden holds a B. Sc. Eng (Hons) in Mineral Technology from Imperial College, University of London.  He is a registered Professional Engineer (Nevada) and has twenty-eight years of broad, international experience in the management and design of major, innovative copper, gold, silver, molybdenum and cobalt operations and projects in the USA, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and the Congo (DRC).  He has held various operations and technical management positions during nine years with Consolidated Gold Fields PLC and eighteen years with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (formerly Phelps Dodge Corporation).  Prior to starting his own consulting business, Metallurgium, he was President of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Senior Vice President of Phelps Dodge Mining Company.   He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received a number of industry awards, including the AIME Robert H. Richards award, and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Wadsworth and Taggart awards.   He is active in SME and serves on the Board of Romarco Minerals Inc., and several university advisory boards.    He has published widely on many aspects of gold and copper extraction, and is the author of “The Chemistry of Gold Extraction” (Second Edition, SME, 2006).  He holds 20 U.S. Patents.  He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.