Brant Tapley is a metallurgist with 20 years of industry experience in plant operation and optimisation, design, due diligence, feasibility and project development. His experience includes working in Australia, United States, Norway, Russia and West Africa. Brant has worked in Operations role in gold, base metals and magnetite and as a consultant through JT Metallurgical Services, providing advice to small scale developers through to large scale global producers.

His professional interests are with identifying opportunities across all project levels to maximise throughput, improve geometallurgical understanding of the ore body, increase economic recovery and reduce costs to increase the economic return to Clients. He also values the mentoring and training Operators and Metallurgists and developing new technology to the benefit of production, environment, and safety.

Brant is a Director of JT Metallurgical Services, Coil Group, Oroya Laboratories and Ecotechnol and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Minerals Engineering) and Bachelor of Science (Chemistry).

Since 2016, Ashlea has been an integral part of the Mintap Services team. Growing up in regional Western Australia exposed her to the iron ore and gold industries which has given her a deep understanding of requirements needed by our customers. Previous roles to Mintap Services included Assistant Manager in an award-winning global travel team.

As a Mum of 3 she balances her work life and pursuing Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping. Ashlea’s enthusiasm for continued learning and industry insights makes her an essential asset to Mintap Services and she is looking forward to being apart of its continued success.