OUR EXPERTISE

Dave Lunderstedt is engaged as a Specialist Consultant for RSV USA Consulting Inc. and has for the past three years worked as Project Principal for a shaft and hoist upgrade project in Portugal – Neves Corvo Mine – owned by Lundin Mining. Dave has a vast history of excellence in the mining industry.

Dave was the EPCM Manager for the Underground Exploration Project for Resolution Copper and prior to joining Resolution Copper, Dave was the project manager for a platinum project in South Africa, No. 16 Shaft at Impala Platinum Mines, which was an EPCM structured project of total value of $ 750 million. The project comprised two vertical shafts, surface and underground infrastructure.

Dave was also employed by Rio Tinto South Africa and worked on various major Rio Tinto mining projects in South Africa, the last of which was the Palabora Underground Mining Project. It was a 30 000 ton per day block cave operation which took Palabora Mining Company from an open pit operation to an underground mine. Dave was project manager responsible for all engineering design and construction and was associated with this project from its inception in 1989 to it completion and first ore hoisting in 2001.

Dave has 44 years of mining experience in both surface and underground mining and has been engaged in projects associated in the engineering design and construction of new shafts and development. His involvement has been with 10 vertical shafts ranging in diameters from 15 feet to 33 feet to depths up to 6500 feet.

Dave has a Government Certificate of Competency in mechanical engineering and a higher engineering diploma in mechanical engineering and is a member of the society of South African Mechanical Engineers.