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He has played leading roles in the development of very large tailings facilities globally and achieved significant expertise in conventional and non-conventional tailings engineering from planning, design, construction, operations management, governance, and closure.

Nelson spent 10 years at Karara Mining, in leadership roles in the development and operation of the first major Magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia.   A novel part of this operation is the large-scale tails filtration and Dry stacking of filtered tailings (non-conventional tailings), currently the largest in the world in terms of tails quantities filtered and stacked (>30,000t/day). He led pioneering research, investigations, planning, engineering design, installation of tailings dewatering and material handling, and operations management of this novel Dry Stack tailings project. He has contributed to several technical forums and short courses on filtered tailings and dry stacking over the past decade.

He has worked for major asset owners including Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia, Karara Mining, Newmont Mining, BHP, and major consulting engineering companies including Lycopodium and GHD. He joined ATC Williams in November 2023 as Western Australia Operations Manager.

Nelson is Fellow of Institution of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer, and member of American Society of Civil Engineers.  He holds BSc. (Hons), from Ghana; M.Eng. and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from Memorial University, Canada; and MBA, from Edith Cowan University, Perth-Australia.