Tony Elliott BSc, IEng, FMES, MAIME
Managing Director
Tony graduated from the University of Birmingham with a first class honours degree in Minerals Engineering and joined the Research & Development Department of Roan Consolidated Mines in Zambia as a metallurgist. He specialised in testing the hardness of metal ores with a view to designing the milling requirements for new potential deposits. He was also part of the team that were world leaders in copper/cobalt differential flotation and he implemented the research work in the Luanshya concentrator to produce both metals.
He became Section Leader in that organisation and then Head of Minerals Engineering for Zambia Consolidated Copper mines central research. With an upsurge in political unrest in Africa he returned to England and took the post of research metallurgist at South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall. The objective being to improve tin recovery and increase capacity at the mill. He developed a two-stage milling and gravity separation flowsheet and designed and commissioned the plant expansion. A paper was given to an international conference in Toronto on this work.
Tony became mill superintendent at South Crofty but, with the collapse in world tin price, became manager of the consultancy division of the then Carnon Consolidated Mines. This did not last and, on withdrawal of Government support for the mines, he left to form his own business of Cornwall Consultants, see “about us”.
Tony sits on the RICS Committee that is updating and revising the Guidance on Mundic testing and is Chairman of the Cornish Chamber of Mines and Minerals.
His, almost, full time recreation was lawn bowls and he represented Zambia at international level and Cornwall at national level. Currently, his, almost, full time interest/occupation is an African Grey parrot that rules the house.
