Brian Arthur

Brian is an independent consulting Metallurgist with more than 30 years of experience in refractory and oxide gold process operations and development, and 3 years of experience in designing heavy metal precipitation plants.  His experience includes leading production teams, process design initiatives, metallurgical test programs, metallurgical accounting activities, and long-range process planning activities.  Brian has operations experience with whole ore roasting, SAG milling, rod milling, flotation, gold leaching, heap leaching, gold refining, and bio-oxidation.  Brian has held leadership roles in Newmont’s dry grind/roasting, wet milling, heap leaching, refinery, and metallurgical laboratory facilities. He is a registered member of SME.

Before joining Newmont, Brian worked with Tetra Technologies in Houston, TX to develop methods to treat heavy metal industrial and mine waste streams. This included the development a method to recover zinc oxide from spent zinc plating streams.

Brian is also an outdoor enthusiest who enjoys hiking, fishing and river rafting. He resides in Nevada with his family.