Brian C. Traweek, P.E. – Associate Mining Engineer

Email: btraweek@kaufmaneng.net

Brian Traweek has mining engineering experience in industrial minerals, coal, and copper. He has completed mine plans for every stage of mining, from initial financial feasibility, to permitting, to mine operations planning, to reclamation and final post-mining land use. His mine planning experience has ranged from weekly production shift operations planning and individual blast pattern design, to life-of-mine plans. Brian’s previous experience in an operations environment provides him with a field practicality perspective in his problem solving approach.  Beyond mine planning, Brian has specific extensive experience in erosion & sedimentation control design and permitting, and in water treatment.


Experience

Mining Engineer Kaufman Engineering, Inc. 2008 to Present

Mr. Traweek develops mine plans for mining operations in a variety of commodities and scales, from permitting support for sub-5-acre private quarries, to large-scale long-range mine planning for multi-million ton-per-year mining operations.

Manager Mine Planning Chemical Lime (now Lhoist North America) 2002 to 2008

Life-of-mine Planning, 5-year mine planning, coordination of company-wide annual mine planning and annual budgeting processes, permitting, mobile equipment selection and justification, drilling and blasting optimization, crushing and screening plant design and optimization, auditing of reserve utilization and operational efficiency. Engineering leadership in the development of greenfield and brownfield mining projects. Cost reporting system design. Management and supervision of corporate Mining Engineers. Temporary management of mining operations as vacancies occur at specific quarries. Training of new mine managers and mining engineers on quality control, mining methods, and short-range mine planning.

BHP Billiton, New Mexico Coal 1996 to 2002

Responsibilities: Mining Operations Engineering for surface coal mines using large draglines and truck & shovel excavation. Long-Range Mine Planning, including detailed financial analyses and design. Drilling & blasting engineering, including seismograph-driven vibration analyses in nearby residential areas and the creation of a site-specific predictive formula correlating blast size and timing to vibration frequency and scale at various nearby structures. Production shift supervision. Engineering design in support of permitting of surface hydrology control structures.  Brian was awarded Salaried Employee of the Year in 2001 (in a staff of 253 salaried employees), for his contributions as a Mining Operations Engineer on a team that achieved record mine production in 4 consecutive years at La Plata Mine.

ASARCO, Inc., Ray Complex 1991 to 1995

Brian worked summers, weekends, and holidays from 1991 through 1995 at the Ray Mine while attending undergraduate school at the University of Arizona. He began as a rodman on the survey crew as a freshman, and by his senior year he was serving as the Quality Control Engineer (Ore Control Engineer) directing 250,000 tons per day of material flow in the mine to 13 different quality-based product destinations, with 7 direct reports.

Education B.S., Mining Engineering, 1995, University of Arizona Also, various short courses in economics, computer applications, surface hydrology, blasting, supervisory leadership, and interpersonal social styles management.

Community Efforts 

President, University of Arizona SME-AIME Student Chapter, 1994

Secretary, Tucson Section of SME-AIME, 1995

Secretary, Penn Anthracite Section of SME-AIME, 2015

Scoutmaster, Troop 255, Northeastern Pennsylvania, 2012 – 2015

Interests

Father of 4

Private pilot, and small aircraft owner

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