Mining Corporation Newmont

XIAOLIN WU, Ph.D.

Centennial, Colorado, USA • Mobile: +1-720-***-**** • *******.**@************.***

Summary

10+ years of 3D graphics engineering design and visualization software development and management experience in areas of deposit modeling, mine planning, ore control, and reconciliation applications in Unix/Linux and Windows. Over one million lines of code using C/C++/C#/Fortran/OpenGL/Visual Basic languages and Perl/Python/SQL/Unix shell scripting languages were developed and used in industry.

30+ years of broad international mining experience in United States, Australia, China, Mexico, Indonesia, Peru, Suriname, Ghana, and Congo, SME registered member for reserve work;

A global leader in development and implementation of mine optimization technologies, methods, and software tools in more than 40 open-pit and underground projects and operations;

Strengths in M&A due diligence, feasibility study, pit optimization and design, cutoff grade strategy, strategic, long-term and short-term mine planning, ore control, and reconciliation.

Software Skills

Project Management

MineSight / Vulcan / TSS

OpenGL / CPLEX / HTML

C / C++ / Python / Perl

Unix / Linux / Oracle / SQL

VS 2019 / MFC / Fortran

Training and Support

Deswik / SOT / Oracle / PL/SQL

Whittle / Minemax / XPAC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Mining Tech, Denver, Colorado, USA

Founder and CEO Nov 2019 - Present

Next generation open pit design, mine planning, and ore control software development and innovation. Used development tools include Visual Studio 2019, C/C++, SQL, OpenGL, Advanced Installer, HelpNDoc, and ElecKey, etc.

China Molybdenum Company (CMOC Mining) USA, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Vice President, Global Technical Services of CMOC Group Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

Led and integrated a technical services team including five groups - geology, mine engineering, deposit modeling, strategic planning, geotechnical and hydrology.

The team provided technical services (geology, geotechnical, deposit modeling, reserve reporting, strategic and long-term mine planning, and ore control) to two open pit operations - Tenke and Fungurume Mine (TFM) in Congo, and CMOC Brazil, and one underground operation - North Parks in Australia.

TFM mine reserve reporting, internal reserve review for North Parks and CMOC Brazil; led two pre-feasibility underground project studies at TFM mine; supported copper leach and mill expansion projects at TFM mine.

Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA

Director, Mine Optimization, Technical Services Mar 2011 - Dec 2018

A subject matter expert in Mine Strategy Full Potential projects that identify and implement value-add mining and process sceanrios – Boddington, Phoenix, Carlin, and Yanacocha.

Reviewed mine engineering standards and guidelines: pit design, ore control, and cutoff grade strategy.

Led the team to support and deliver 40+ strategic and long-term mine planning scheduling solutions in Newmont operating sites and projects that consists of more than 100 million ounces of gold, and 10 billion pounds of copper. Organized training for more than 100 chief engineers and long-term planning engineers across the company. Through the use of optimization technology and tools, the estimated life-of-mine NPV gain is up to 15%.

Led the internal and external mining R&D and innovation projects in areas of tool development, evaluation and validation, benchmarking, implementation, training and support for fast open pit underground mine design and schedule optimization: MSO, SOT, hill of value method, open-pit and underground transition, short-term cluster-based scheduling algorithm, mining phase optimization, orebody risk evaluation, stochastic mine planning, benchmark study of Whittle Consulting tool vs in-house optimizer.

Mentored summer internal students – multiple years.

A team member and/or mining lead in the feasibility studies: Conga, Yanacocha Sulfides, Quecher Main, Ahafo North, Long Canyon, Merian, Sabajo, and Phoenix Copper Leach.

Adviser for a team of 3 mining engineers and 5 developers for redevelopment of the broken Yanacocha ore control system (Vulcan).

Participated in 15 M&A due diligence work as a mining team member and/or lead.

Reviewed mineral reserve reports: Phoenix, Carlin, Yanacocha, and Batu Hijau.

Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA

Senior Manager, Mine Optimization, Technical Services Mar 2007 – Mar 2011

Evaluated and selected mine plan optimization tools.

Delivered 20+ strategic and long-term mine planning scheduling solutions (multiple AFE projects) across the company.

Participated in five M&A due diligence work as a mining team member.

Mentored summer internal students – multiple years.

Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA

Consulting Engineer, Mining Engineering, Technical Services Mar 2002 – Mar 2007

Developed, implemented and supported multi-metal, multi-process revenue based mine planning and ore control systems at Yanacocha (12 pits) and Phoenix (3 pits).

Mine planning software selection project – five vendors.

Developed mine coordinate conversion programs for conversion of multiple terabyte mining data files and Oracle database for Carlin operations.

Provided mine planning, ore control, and reconciliation consulting services to more than 20 open-pit sites and projects at Newmont. Trained more 03than 100 mining engineers in mine planning software and methods.

Completed three M&A targets evaluation – mining lead.

Newmont Mining Corporation, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA

Software Developer, Technical and Scientific Systems, Technical Services Mar 1996 – Mar 2002

The principal author and supporter of in-house mine planning and ore control software system which consists of geological modeling, deposit modeling, mine planning, ore control, and reconciliation.

Developed, implemented, and supported mine planning and ore control systems in operations in Nevada, Peru, Indonesia, and Mexico (about 30 open pits).

Part-time Instructor: Unix and Visual Basic classes at Denver Community College, and CollegeAmerica.

Jiangxi Bureau of Land and Resources, Jiangxi, China

Mining Engineer, Department of Mineral Resources Development & Management Aug 1987 – July 1991

EIS and feasibility study review, mining permit application review and approval.

Jiangxi Copper Corporation, Jiangxi, China

Short-Term Mining Engineer Aug 1983 – July 1984

Short-term mine planning

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mining Engineering; 1991-1995; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

M.S. in Mining Engineering; 1984-1987; China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China.

B.S. in Mining Engineering; 1979-1983; Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi, China.

AWARD

U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 1998

China Ministry of Land and Resources

Third National Science and Technology Advance Award 1989

TRAINING

Vulcan Haulage, 2017

Closure and Reclamation Workshop, 2017

Vulcan Open Pit Design and Mine Planning, 2013, 2016

Stermole Economic Workshop, 2015

Ore Reserve Risks and Stochastic Mine Planning, McGill University, 2010, 2015

Minemax Scheduler: 2008, 2011, 2014

Mining Strategy and Hill of Value Method, 2014

Lean Six Sigma: 2012

Stope Optimizer Training, 2011

Talpac, 2011

Global Asset Optimization, 2010

Xeras Training, 2010

Sample Theory and Practice, 2009

Project Evaluation and Economic Analysis, 2008

Cut-off Grade, 2008

XPAC Training, 2007

Whittle, 2007

MineSight, 2006

Advanced Geostatistics, 2006

Variogram Analysis – SAGE, 2005

Geostatistics – Conditional Simulation, 2003

OpenGL (1996), User Interface Design (1997), IRIS/Motif (1997), SQL (2004), C# (2003)

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