James Gusek

James Gusek

About

Mr. Gusek has 40-plus years of wide-ranging experience in mining-related projects, with focus in environmental and geotechnical disciplines.  Since 1985, this experience was applied to a number of challenging mine land reclamation/closure projects that included geotechnical investigations, development of grading and reclamation plans, and the design of constructed wetlands for treating polluted mine water.  He is an internationally-recognized authority in the passive treatment of mine drainage.  He is also the co-chair of the Mitigation Group of the Metal Mining Sector of the Acid Drainage Technology Initiative (ADTI) and is the editor/co-author of a book on the prevention and treatment of metal mine drainage.  He served on the ITRC Biochemical Reactor (BCR) working group and was a key contributor.

 

Recognizing that active or passive treatment of mine drainage in perpetuity is unsustainable, Mr. Gusek has recently focused his engineering efforts on developing technologies that prevent acid rock drainage (ARD); i.e., source control. He has presented dozens of technical papers and short courses at mining-related conferences over his career and has been selected a 2013 Henry Krumb distinguished lecturer by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME).   He also received the Environmental Stewardship Distinguished Service Award from SME in 2015.  Mr. Gusek joined Sovereign in 2013.

 

He was a founding member of the Denver Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and was the chapter's president for two years.

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Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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