SA NEWS
On the move at SRK
Marcin Wertz, SRK
global board director.
Chris Dalgliesh, SRK
South Africa director.
Global firm of engineers and
scientists SRK Consulting has
made a number of directorship
and partnership appointments
to its global board and South
African leadership.
South African partner
Marcin Wertz, a mining
engineer with over 31
years’ experience, has been
appointed as a director
to the SRK global board.
Wertz’s expertise includes the
reviewing of mining methods,
underground layouts, and
production scheduling for a
range of underground hard
rock mining conditions.
He also conducts reserve
audits, with an emphasis on
the conversion of mineral
resources to reserves.
An important aspect of
his work has been in the
evaluation of underground
operations, including issues
of productivity. He also co-
ordinates multidisciplinary
Wouter Jordaan, SRK
South Africa partner.
teams in conducting mining
studies, from scoping and full
feasibility studies to bankable
standard.
SRK Consulting (South
Africa) has appointed Cape
Town-based partner Chris
Dalgliesh as a director.
With 25 years of experience
across a range of sectors in
Africa and South America,
Dalgliesh directs, manages,
and reviews environmental
and social impact assessments
(ESIAs) — focusing on
ensuring compliance with
Equator principles and IFC
performance standards.
SRK Consulting (South
Africa) has also appointed
a new partner and three
associate partners. The new
partner is Wouter Jordaan,
who joined SRK in 2003 and
is a principal environmental
scientist in the SRK Durban
office and a director of SRK’s
DRC practice. His core roles
Steve Bartels,
SRK South Africa
associate partner.
Lindsay Linzer,
SRK South Africa
associate partner.
are developing new business in
East Africa and the DRC. He
specialises in environmental
due diligence, audits, ESIAs,
closure planning, sustainability
standard implementation,
and geospatial analysis. He
has extensive experience with
greenfield and brownfield
industrial developments across
commodities and has been
involved with various large
scale linear infrastructure
projects mainly related
to power generation and
electrification.
The three new associate
partners are Steve Bartels,
Lindsay Linzer, and Sue
Reuther. Bartels is a
principal technologist in the
SRK Johannesburg office,
specialising in various aspects
of civil engineering, and has
been with SRK since 2011.
Linzer has 23 years’
combined experience in the
Sue Reuther,
SRK South Africa
associate partner.
processing and interpretation
of seismic waves and is a
principal geophysicist in
SRK’s Johannesburg office.
She has a parti cular interest
in mining seismology and
has projects in the gold and
platinum mining districts
in South Africa and more
recently, Sweden.
Reuther, a principal
environmental consultant
in SRK’s Cape Town office,
joined the firm in 2005,
has a combined 15 years’
experience in environmental
assessment, and has practiced
as an environmental
consultant since 2005. Besides
managing environmental
impact assessments as well as
environmental and social due
diligence reviews against IFC
standards, she also undertakes
specialist socio-economic
and resource economic
impact assessments.
QUARRY SA | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 _ 5