Otmane El Rhazi : Tech savvy O’Neill streaks up Anglo ladder

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

Technical fundi Tony O’Neill, who put his imprimatur on game-changing technology during his short spell in South Africa, has been appointed with immediate effect to the board of Anglo American as an executive director, less than two years after taking over the company’s technology, business performance and safety responsibilities. O’Neill, who joined Anglo as group director technical in September 2013 after seeing to AngloGold Ashanti’s new mechanical-cutting mining technology passing its tests at the TauTona mine, is currently a director of Anglo American Platinum, where most platinum ounces produced in the next ten years will come from mechanised mining, and Kumba Iron Ore, where major mine rejigging has had to take place in line with falling prices. He postulates increased mining productivity through a stable operating model facilitated by technology and the implementation of “disruptive technologies that can change the game”.