After a hard first day at Mining Indaba it was good to relax yesterday evening at the Ferrymans Tavern, the waterfront's oldest pub, with a few old friends. Two of them, John and Roselyne Eyre, are also based in Cornwall. John's company is North Coast Consulting, involved with minerals and environmental management. Both John and I spent our first years in Cornwall as colleagues at Camborne School of Mines.
Chris Bryan, formerly with Camborne School of Mines, is now with BRGM in France, and a consultant to MEI's Biomining '20, which will be held in Cornwall in June.
Alos joining us was University of Cape Town's Cyril O'Connor, who is chairman of the International Mineral Processing Council. I have known Cyril for 38 years, since my visiting lecturer stint at UCT in 1982.
It is many years since I last caught up with Russell Heins, who left Gekko Systems in 2007 and is now based in Johannesburg with The Minerals Corporation. It was great to talk to Russell after all these years, and to his fellow Director Jon Murphy.
 |
| Cyril, BW, Chris, Russell, Jon and John, with Roselyne and Barbara |
.png)
.jpg)
Good to read that you have met your old colleagues but also who served the profession and made a mark. My compliments .
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted, Barry--these Blogs bring a bonding at Global level