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OUR TEAM

Strong leadership leads to strong results. Our technical team is committed to providing superior results for our clients, focusing on economic and environmental excellence while continuously seeking out innovative new ways to enhance their projects.

Brent Hilscher, P.Eng.

Brent Hilscher has over 20 years experience in mining and mineral processing. He has commissioned, operated, and supervised mineral processing plants. He has published papers, patented technologies, and been a speaker at over a dozen conferences and universities in Canada and around the world.

Brent has led design and construction projects for Teck, Goldcorp, New Gold, Barrick, Xstrata, Agnico Eagle, and many others. He won the National CMP Bill Moore Award for technical excellence in 2013, and served as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. Because of his technical reputation Brent has been consulted as an advisor for the World Bank, United Nations, Government of Canada, and NASA mining research projects. He has volunteered as an executive for both the CIM and the CMP.

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Damir Cukor, P.Geo.

Damir Cukor has been an active member of the mining industry for over 30 years as a successful explorationist and a QP geologist. As a second-generation mining individual, Damir has worked on advancing projects from grass-roots stages through to realizing material improvements on operating mines. On the Hammond Reef gold project in Ontario for Brett Resources, Damir in his role as Exploration Manager, guided the project through exploration drilling to its maiden resource estimate, and later, as Independent QP, through to expanded M&I resource status for Osisko; the project is now in the Agnico Eagle portfolio. His work also included resource estimates on part of the Kiggavik complex of Uranium deposits in Nunavut for AREVA, brought to the permitting stage. Two other maiden resource estimates were significant - the Polo Resources Nimini Hills gold deposit in Sierra Leone, Africa, subsequently reached permitting process; the currently-operating gold-copper Gedabec Mine in Azerbaijan was treated to its first modern JORC resources estimate.

Damir's broad spectrum encompasses project permitting processes, resource and reserves modelling calculation, and NI 43-101 and JORC reporting.

 

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Andre Villeneuve

Andre is a senior executive with ABH Engineering Inc. with over 40 years experience in the mining industry and has worked as an independent mining and civil consultant since 1989.


He has extensive senior level management and executive experience with project evaluation, due diligence reviews, mineral property valuations, operational audits, development, construction and operation of gold, silver, base metals, coal and iron ore mines in the Americas, Africa, Australasia and Europe.

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Vladimir Dybounov, BEng, EIT

Having graduated from BCIT with a bachelor's degree in mining engineering, Vladimir worked with mining equipment manufacturers prior to joining ABH Engineering. His multidisciplinary background allows him to be flexible in his approach to a wide variety of problems.

As the Environmental Engineering Intern, he currently assists the principal engineers with detailed design work, cost estimates, and academic research.

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Hussein Kanaan, BASc

Having Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from UBC, Hussein has completed multiple ore sorting, optimization, and trade-off studies since joining ABH.

Hussein has great experience in working on metal recovery methods and project economic assessments for NI 43-101 and S-K 1300 technical reports.

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