Curriculum Vitae

Hans Jürgen Chwolka

Home address: Lüllauerstr.39

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Germany

E-mail (private): acgjx5@r.postjobfree.com

Phone (cell): +49-418*-***-****

Personal data

Date/place of birth Born on 18 June 1956 in Ahlen, Germany (German citizen)

Marital status married; two children

Summary of Professional Career

• 25 years managerial background as Manager and MD in mining, engineering, mining

construction, mining engineering consulting, strategic marketing, and mining operations with direct

responsibility to group chairman.

• High-level international exposure in underground and large Tunnel mining and heavy

engineering projects and thorough knowledge in all relevant fields of management and work

practices relevant to mechanized mining and tunnelling with Excellent Hands on leadership

experience

• International exposure: As a senior project engineer with the German mining company

Thyssen Mining (1978 until 2000) with profit center head responsibilities in several large-scale

international mining projects, e.g., in the U.S., Spain, and Australia.

• Responsible for all statutory issues: Leading a board of up to eighteen senior managers in the

engineering environment and a staff of 450 .

• Professional and well respected senior manager with demonstrated leadership and team

building qualities and an edge due to a successful on-target delivery and performance on the basis

a thorough understanding of all mining-relevant business disciplines, strategizing, performance

management, personnel development, and relationship building complemented with excellent

technical skills.

• High-level experience in strategic mine planning including finance, state-of-the-art mine design

and the devising of strategic business plans and their timely implementation; familiarity with

quantitative analysis and financial planning tools to evaluate and communicate investment

decisions.

• Technical and legal interpretations of all contracts and tenders at international level;

international liaison management with internal and external customers as well as authorities and

regulators.

• Custodian of risk management and project quality management.

• Access to an international network in the mining (management and machinery) as well as the

metallurgical sector, which is readily available and implementable into the currently advised

position.

My experiences go there from the planning and introduction of actual(effectual) machine

parks for underground and open pit and Tunnelling

implementation of trackless mine system,Longwaal-system, Voest Alpine Mining Roadheader

systems,, hoist and Shaftsystems, Raisebore system, shafts with a full face machine, transport, and

drilling systems according to demands(standards) as well as servicing planning

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Professional Career / Green field projects

2000 – 2013 Induberg AG - General Manager, COO

COO & GM

Green field projects in mining projects in sub-Saharan Africa (for tin,

tantalum, rare-earth metals, Gold, work in the setup of an

underground gold mine and peripheral infrastructure, enhancement of

health & safety program). technical and economic subsidies gold and

iron ore mining in Mongolia and Sudan underground and open pit

2006-2009 Study Director

international level: various open-pit mining projects in the DRC and sub-Saharan Africa gold

ore and tin, tantalite/Niob in Namibia work of profitability study, mine

of life plan and bfs study, investment planning.

2000-2005 GM; responsibility for the two company divisions, at the

national level: several underground coal production and production facility construction

projects (shaft sinking, development and refurbishment, heading

drivage, underground support and lining) at various German mining

sites

Employed at Thyssen Mining Germany from 1978 -2000

1997 – 2000 Manager at various mining sites for Thyssen Mining, Germany, with

strategic and operational planning responsibility in best practices

implementation in mining operations, transport and dispatch of coal,

quality management, and mine safety and safety equipment

management. implementation of Longwaal-system

1990 – 1996 Manager at various mining sites for Thyssen Mining with (extension

of) production (output) responsibility as well as in personnel

management and HR development. implementation of trackless mine

system

1985 – 1990 CTO and profit center head for Thyssen Mining in Spain with the

objective of extending and maximizing an open-pit hard coal

production site (to 5,000 t/d) as well as manage the development of

peripheral infrastructure of the mine incl. trackless system

1981 – 1984 Mine manager as project engineer for Thyssen Mining in Australia:

development and construction of an lead and zinc mine-cobar and

infrastructure up to production stage; contractual liaison with clients

and suppliers as well as management of sub-contractors. trackless

mining system

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1978 – 1980 Mining site manager as project engineer for Thyssen Mining near

Tuscaloosa (USA) with the tasks of constructing and implementing a

spiral bunker and (9 m diameter, 60 m depth); after completion

responsibility of ramping up the open-pit (steaming coal) production to

a steady level of 8,000 to 10,000 t/d.

1973 – 1975 Foreman in underground tunnelling and hard rock mining operations

at various mines in Germany.

Education

1979 – 1980 Completion of an extra-occupational graduate-level study program at

the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) at the Department of Civil,

Construction, and Environmental Engineering in Construction

Engineering & Management., after work study.

1975 – 1978 Completion of academic degree in mining engineering studies at the

mining engineering school in Bochum/Dortmund, Germany (1978):

graduate degree as a mining engineer: .

1970 – 1973 Three-year vocational training in hard coal mining at the RAG

underground mine at Ahlen, Germany.

Please do not hesitate to contact me at your convenience, I will gladly answer any of your questions.

Hans Jürgen Chwolka

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