Name: Ross GarlingMobile: 0409 789 877E-Mail: Ross.Garling@gmail.comAddress: 107 Ariadne St, River Heads, Qld., Australia, 4655.Experience 30+ years in Tailings - specialized in the evaluation, strategy, re-mining, re-processing, and rehabilitation of tailings, worked on many tailings damsKey Competencies • Long experience in all aspects of mine tailings – last 30+ years • Well known throughout the industry as a tailings expert with innovative ideas• Large network gained over the 55 years in the industry• Active in industry and community, former Branch Chairman, Sydney Branch - The AusIMM. Currently Trusted Voice Ambassador for the AusIMM, and recently NQ Branch Secretary / Treasurer. Last year awarded by the AusIMM for my services to the industry.• Works well in multi-disciplinary teams – essential for tailings projects• Manages teams – have been a Managing Director and a senior manager for many yearsSome Areas of Tailings Expertise• Evaluation – resource assessment, sampling, quantification, feasibility studies,• Strategic studies of tailings programming• Re-Mining – all forms including dredge, hydraulic, dry mining, and other techniques• Re-Processing – have proven a process for high recovery of low ash premium coking coal products from high inherent ash coals (fine grained)• Rehabilitation• Fly ash emplacementSome of the recent Tailings/Rejects Activities • Currently Senior Site Executive & Project Manager of the Brilliant Brumby kaolin/gold project west of Charters Towers,• Glencore – just completed a series of bulk pilot trials to remove the critical minerals from coal tailings,• Anglo – evaluation of the best way of emptying an open cut filled with tailings at the Dawson Mine to allow mining below the pit floor,• Cannington – with GHD. Currently a lead in doing the re-mining and deposition studies in proposed Tailings Reprocessing PFS. The re-mining is favoring hydraulic mining.• Oaky Creek – advising improvement