Simon Hanrahan

His career includes 25 years in mine management and project/construction management and 14 years in consulting. He has been a team member and operations/project leader across the whole resources value chain: option, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, project construction and commissioning, and mine operations.

Simon gained mine management and construction experience in South Africa, Australia and the USA in gold, coal, base metals, copper, platinum, industrial minerals and diamonds. Simon has significant experience in major projects involving the development of block cave mines, as well as operating open pit mines above caving zones. 

Since joining SRK in 2010, Simon has worked globally in project management, project evaluations and technical reviews for surface and underground mining projects and studies and project construction oversight for lenders. His commodity experience (with SRK) also includes iron (DSO and magnetite), lithium, graphite, nickel, zinc, bauxite, manganese, niobium, tungsten, mineral sands and potash brine projects. Simon has a demonstrated ability to work within and lead multidisciplinary teams and cultures across all resource types.