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I joined Catalyst after I just finished working overseas. I’d been working on the Grasberg Block Cave project for 13 years in Indonesia.
It was a long time to be away from home and it was time for me to come back to Australia.
I was planning on having a bit of time off, and James approached me and he pitched an idea of what he wanted to do and he wanted to build a team.
He wanted me to be part of it. I’ve been on site a few months now and, what I’ve seen at Plutonic is a really good ore body, a good opportunity to develop something that’s been running since 1990, I think 1991.
The workforce has been constant for a lot of years.
There’s a lot of long-term people there, and a lot of really, really good experience miners. There’s a different dynamic, a lot of different people, different cultures, different backgrounds. It’s quite refreshing.
It’s like it was 20 years ago. It’s a great opportunity.
I think we’ve got a great resource. There’s a lot more beyond blue Plutonic, but at the moment, Plutonic is the focus.
And I think with the workforce and the people we’ve got, it’s going to be very successful.
It’s a big advantage to have experienced people on the mine for two reasons.
One, it is a hard industry, it’s a dangerous industry and to have that knowledge and the operators knowing what they’re doing, it’s definitely the one of the most important things to be successful in the mining game.
And you also need a good balance of people that are new to the industry and without the experience that people new to the industry aren’t goning to learn onsite, it’s very unusual to see the managing director & CEO James come to site so often.
He does come to site, he’s been up there nearly every week that I’ve been there since I started.
It’s refreshing to see someone of his caliber coming to site so often and, proves to me and everyone else can see that as well, that he really does want Catalyst to succeed.
