ArcelorMittal appoints Mr Wood to head Americas iron ore operations

Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011

ArcelorMittal announced the appointment of Mr Steve Wood as Vice President and Head of Iron Ore Operations for the Americas region. The appointment is effective from 1 November 2011.

Mr Steve will be based in Montreal, Canada and reports to mr Kleber Silva, Vice President Head of Iron Ore and Member of the ArcelorMittal Management Committee.

Prior to his appointment with ArcelorMittal, Mr Steve held various senior management positions in the mining industry. Most recently he was the Director and Head of Mining and Milling for Vale Canada's North Atlantic operations. In this role Steve was responsible for managing 11 copper and nickel mines, 3 mills and a new refinery and mine start up. Mr Steve has also worked in Indonesia as Vice President Operations at PT Inco where he successfully improved the company's environmental and safety performance across its operations.

Mr Kleber Silva commented “The Americas is an extremely important region for ArcelorMittal's global mining business and we are pleased to welcome an experienced operator like Steve to our team. He will ensure that the operational aspects of the Group's iron ore operations and projects in the region are best in class.”

Mr Steve is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and has a B Eng Mining from Laurentian University, Canada.

Vale appoints new coal boss

Saturday, 29 Oct 2011

Brazilian mining giant Vale has appointed a new boss for its coal division to be based in Brisbane.

Mr Mauro Neves replaces fellow Brazilian national Mr Decio Amaral whose resignation was suddenly announced in August after nearly two years in the job.

Mr Amaral spoke of a desire to make Vale one of the four largest coal players in Australia through the 10,000 square kilometres of coal tenements it owns in Queensland's Galilee and Bowen basins.

He has quit Vale and is moving back to Brazil.

Mr Neves was Vale's director of planning, development and continuous improvement and will move to Australia from Brazil.

Vale said in a statement that he came to the role with a mandate to oversee the growth of Vale global coal business and existing operations in Australia, Mozambique and Colombia.

The company wants to be Australia's fourth-biggest coal producer by 2021.

(sourced smh.com.au)

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ArcelorMittal appoints Wandke to senior management of mining division

Monday, 07 February 2011 14:41:47 (GMT+2)
On February 4, Luxembourg-based global steel titan ArcelorMittal announced that Simon Wandke has been appointed as the new chief commercial officer heading up marketing and sales for its mining division and as a vice-president of the company. Mr. Wandke will report to Peter Kukielski, head of mining and member of the group management board. His appointment is effective from January 10. Mr. Wandke's most recent position was as chief marketing officer at Ferrexpo Group, the London-listed iron ore mining and processing company with interests in Ukraine. He worked in Ferrexpo from 2006 until recently. Between 2002 and 2005 he was a partner in international organizational development consulting company Destra Consulting Group where he was responsible for launching the Australian practice. Between 1989 and 2002 Mr. Wandke held a number of senior positions at Australian mining giant BHP Billiton, including vice-president of strategic marketing and vice-president for strategy within the minerals group. Peter Kukielski commented, "I am delighted that Simon will be joining the mining division of ArcelorMittal. He brings a wealth of marketing and management experience from the mining sector and has a great track record of success, particularly in the development of effective commercial strategies."
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