JAMES F. OLSON

RESUME'

Home address: **** ******* **., **** **** City, UT 84116

Phone: 801-***-****

Birth, Date: June 8, 1931 Place: Salt Lake City, UT

Military Service: U.S.A.F. Jan. 1951 - honorable discharge, Jan. 1956

Duties: Missile Guidance Technician, Radar Repairman, Missile Controls

Technician, and Draftsman

Schooling:

Ogden High School, Ogden, Utah 1947 - 1950

English, Math, Chemistry, Physics, Aeronautics

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Pre-engineering: English, German, Math, Chemistry Mineralogy

El Camino Jr. College

Differential Calculus

Self Studies: Math, Helicopter Engineering, Electroplating, Accounting,

Typing, English, Math, Plastics, Art,

Government, Strength of Materials, Air Logic

Patent: U.S. 3,690,179 September 12, 1972, Rotary Sampler

Applicable to compact, extremely accurate sampling systems

Publications: Articles in Skillings, Mining Record, and Mineral News

and articles in numerous publications dealing with art.

EMPLOYMENT

SENIOR MECHANICAL DESIGNER AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Forty years experience in the field of machine and equipment design as

related to the minerals beneficiation industry and secondly as related to

production and production line machinery with some experience in aerospace

related equipment.

ROBERTS AND SCHAEFER COMPANY, Salt Lake City, UT

Senior Mechanical Designer ref: Floyd Jepson, Project Engineer

Responsible for the design of several light belt conveyor systems and

layout and design of other conveying and feeding machines. One project

included the remodeling of ball and semi-atogenous mill liner handling

machines. The project also included the design of a compact hydraulically

articulated and driven transport bogie to mount beneath the existing

support structure of the liner handler. All design projects include all

phases of investigation from concept to structural analysis and fabrication

drawings. Other duties have included fieldwork with recommendations for

problem solving and plant expansions, setting up equipment testing for

projected applications, preparation of specifications, and bid evaluation,

plate work design and drafting. Materials represented in work included

coal, copper, potash, gold, aggregates and industrial waste.

For Huish Detergents Co. I had the pleasure of having a major roll in the

equipment design and installation of an enzyme plant. All my work

experience included particular attention to installation and operator

safety, accessibility and maintenance.

KIRK MEYER COMPANY, Salt Lak City, UT

Mechanical Engineer: ref: James Bishop, project engineer

Assigned to Hercules Aerospace. Duties included mechanical design of

machinery and equipment for rocket motor and propellant production and

handling, conceptual planning, preparation of specifications, mechanical

design and supervision of mechanical designers and draftsmen, preparation

of conceptual models, liaison with fabrication shops and supervision of

vendor fabrication.

NEWBERY ENGINEERING CO., Salt Lake City, Ute

Senior Mechanical Designer: ref: June Lucero

Responsibilities covered all phases of mechanical engineering, design and

drafting including field orientation, brainstorming and design conferences

with customers concerning new installations, equipment and machinery

evaluation and troubleshooting. Duties included preliminary and conceptual

design of conveying systems, and conveyor design of plant, overland and

underground conveyors. Assignments also included design, specifications and

recommendations for many other types of conveying and elevating machines.

One assignment included the design of large rotary type feeders for very

hot environments with special attention to heat transfer and cooling of

drive components. Another assignment was the rebuilding of the Inco furnace

in the Chino Smelter in New Mexico. This included the redesign of the

sprung arch roof and design of a suspended brick section near the gas

uptake. A water-cooled copper transition was also part of the assignment.

The suspended arch and uptake transition were designed for replacement

during furnace operation. Also included was the rebuilding of roaster

doors. Another assignment was for the design of a blood gas analyzer

cabinet including component placement and harness with attention to access,

serviceability, safety and aesthetics.

MOUNTAIN STATES ENGINEERS, Tucson, Arizona

Senior Mechanical Designer:

Layout, design and detailing of mineral beneficiation plants including

crushing and screening plants, stock piling and reclaim facilities,

concentration plants, conveyors and general materials handling equipment.

Worked on Duval Sierrita ore and waste conveying systems and developed new

concepts in low headroom transfer points for the high tonnage systems and

developed new type conveyor belt take-up systems being used in the Duval

system. Design and layout of pilot and sampling plants utilizing samplers

per patent listed above for bold, copper and coal etc.

Fieldwork included assisting in the design and erection of a local lime

plant. Duties included design and drafting of entire crushing and screening

plant from truck dump hopper to the kiln feed and reclaim systems, off gas

ducts to cyclones, electrostatic precipitator, a rotary drier and kiln.

Also worked with cement plants and potash plants where large rotary kilns

were used. Similar experience was with several smaller operations using

both vertical and horizontal kilns, especially in the sugar industry.

Much of my assignments have been with job shop employers or on my own

contract, working for many clients, sometimes as many as two or three per

year. To list them all would cast little additional light on my

qualifications.

OTHER EMPLOYERS OR CLIENTS:

CAMBELT INTERNATION CORP., 2820 W. 1100 South Salt Lake City, UT 84104

Ref: Colin Campbell: Chief Engineer,

801-***-****

TORKELSON ENGINEERING CO.

Ref: Johnnie Carpenter, 2165 E. 3715 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84109

801-***-****

PEMCO ENGINEERING COMPANY, Murray, UT

FORD, BACON, & DAVIS INC., Salt Lake City, UT

CONVEYORS & EQUIPMENT CO., 3580 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84115

Ref: John Morrison, Owner & Chief Engineer

801-***-****

SUMMARY:

Forty years of experience in the mechanical engineering field beginning as

a draftsman and continuing in responsibility to total job supervision as a

mechanical engineer to include all project phases from concept to start-up

in the minerals beneficiation industry. Conveyor design has been from

small 2 HP, 18 inch wide to 3600 HP multi drive overland systems.

Application and design of mill equipment and machinery ranged from shovel,

through plant to tailing pond including, numerous methods of concentration,

most prominently flotation and solvent extractions. Materials and minerals

experience includes copper, coal, limestone, trona, iron, gold, silver,

lead-zinc, gilsonite, sand & gravel, potash, sugar, wood products, etc.

Smelter experience was in copper and lead.

Work has been in my own office, clients engineering office, field office or

employer engineering office

Machine design experience runs from draftsman's compass to boom stackers

and shipyard loaders, including monorail bogie, snow track demolding

machine, belt building lathes, tire building machines, hose braiders,

punches, presses, hydraulic power supplies, shaft doors, winches, hoists,

skips, drill jumbos, muckers, bagging machines.

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