ABOUT US
Whether it is a high-density tailings transport line, a long-distance concentrate pipeline, or essential NPI facilities, the team at A-Cru has the experience, capability and motivation to support mining clients in achieving the right solution that adds value to their operations.
Our team has been directly responsible for the successful design of hundreds of kilometres of slurry pipeline systems throughout the world.
We are here to help!
OUR VISION
To become the leading Australian specialist in developing safe and cost-effective slurry transport solutions for the mining industry.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Managing Director
Joseph (Joe) started his career in the renewable power industry in Perth (2014) before moving into the slurry engineering with Paterson & Cooke’s Perth office. Since then, Joe undertook different roles including lab manager and slurry hydraulics specialist before finally moving to Brisbane to lead their local practice in Queensland. His experience includes slurry pipeline studies, test work campaigns, project execution, and commissioning including red mud (tailings), lithium tailings, mineral sands feed ore, gold tailings, iron ore tailings, iron ore concentrate (magnetite), copper feed ore, copper tailings and several concentrated mineral systems (copper and gold). These projects helped Joe to develop a thorough understanding of slurry steady state and transients hydraulics as well as a vast variety of slurry test work. In 2021 Joe started Alpha-Cru Slurry Engineering, his own slurry consulting business in collaboration with Fremantle Metallurgy in Perth’s south-west suburbs, leading a team of motivated engineers and technicians to deliver world-class engineering solutions to the local mining industry.
Principal Metallurgist, Director
Jason is Metallurgist (BSc Met. 1996), managing director of Fremantle Metallurgy and JV partner of A-Cru, bringing his +25 years of experience in extractive metallurgy, processing plants and slurry test work into the team. Jason’s background in the mining industry includes various roles in the areas of equipment sizing/design, installation/commissioning, and process plant development/implementation.
Principal, Saxum Consulting
Andres is a mechanical engineer with more than 25 years of experience in mechanical, process, piping and pipeline engineering for mineral processing plants and in particular slurry transport and processing systems.
Before starting his own consulting services business (Saxum Consulting), Andres was the founding director at Paterson & Cooke Australia (slurry transport consultants), holding the role of Managing Director and Principal Engineer from 2012 to 2021. Previous to Paterson & Cooke, Andres undertook consulting/ design/commissioning roles for EPCM firms such as Minproc, Amec, and SKM.
Originally from Chile, he started his career working in mining (copper and non-metallic) and the oil & gas industries, relocating to Australia in 2006. He has participated in the engineering design, construction and commissioning of hundreds of km of slurry transport pipelines and their pump stations, as well as several processing facilities in Australia, Africa, Asia, South America and Europe.
KEY PROJECTS
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
A-Cru is part of an international network of specialised consultants that collaborate to support our clients abroad. This includes:
