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DR. ROSHAN BHAPPU

Former President of American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, USA

We believe that great minds make During the last 33 years, Dr. Bhappu ‘Van Diest Gold Medal’ of CSM, Robert
great business and Dr. Roshan has worked on hundreds of mining Richards Award of AIME, ‘Metal of Merit’
Bhappu has done just that and is playing a projects worldwide with emphasis on (MFSW) and most coveted the ‘Gold
top role in the metals and mining industry the extraction of base metals, precious Medal’ from the Mining and Metallurgical
in America. His growth has been nothing metals, industrial metals, rare earth Society of America (2010).
short of astonishing right from the start elements, coal and uranium.
of his engineering career as the Resident
Metallurgist for the Miami Copper Co. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board
in Arizona followed by 14 years of Senior of Rare Element Resources Ltd. He has
Metallurgist at the New Mexico Institute been a consultant to UNDP and World
of Mining and Technology, as well as Bank. He was President of Society of
Research Professor and Vice President for Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Research at the same institutet. (SME in 1990), and President of American
Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and
In 1972, he joined the Mountain States Petroleum Engineers (AIME in 1992).
Engineers group in Tucson, Arizona to
start the Mountain States R&D Division, Dr. Bhappu holds a Metallurgical
which was spun off as a separate company Engineers Degree (1950), MS (1951) and
in 1987. Doctor of Science (1953) at the Colorado
School of Mines. He has been a recipient
of several awards some of which are: The

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