Senior Research Scientist: Hydrometallurgical processes; environmental processes; waste management; oxidation-reduction chemistry, desalination, electrochemistry.

Education

• University of Nevada, Reno
  Reno, Nevada, 1990, Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering
  Dissertation: “A Study of the Chlorination of Gold: The Effect of Nascent Chlorine, Mechanism Determination, the Role of Sulfide Minerals and Carbon, and the Effect of Multivalent Chloride Salts”
  
• University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989, M.S.E. in Chemical Engineering
  
• University of Nevada, Reno
  Reno, Nevada, 1985, M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering
  Thesis: “A Study of the Effect of Using Thiourea as a Sulfide Donor for Metal Sulfide Precipitation from Waste Waters”
  
• Univeristy of Nevada, Reno
  Reno, Nevada, 1980, B.S. in Chemical Engineering

Professional Experience

• 1996 - present Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
• 1990 – 1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
• 1988 – 1990 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• 1986 – 1988 Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1985 - 1986 Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1984 – 1985 Research Fellow, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• 1980 – 1983 Metallurgical Engineer, Nevada Moly Operation, Anaconda Minerals Company, Tonopah, Nevada

Areas of Expertises

• Hydrometallurgy, Water Treatment Technologies, Aqueous Chemistry of Transition Metals, Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry, Inorganic
• Chemistry, Mineral Processing Technology, Solid Separation Technology, Solid and Liquid Waste Remediation, Analytical Methods for
• Solid and Aqueous Systems, Metal Precipitation Processes, Materials Processing Technology

Consulting Services

List of Research Clients:
• Newmont Metallurgical Services: (two projects)
  (1) Developed, engineered and optimized a process to treat and recycle the lead from fire assay wastes. A pilot facility has been engineered and constructed to handle approximately 1 ton of waste daily.
  (2) Conducted preliminary study on the efficacy of using a precipitation process to treat the acid rock drainage from their Batu Haiju mine in Indonesia.
• Copper Range Company:
  Developed a biological process for their in situ copper leaching plant. The plant shut down before pilot scale plant could be constructed. The process was patented in the U.S. with foreign patents pending.
• Barrick Goldstrike Mine:
  Used the biological process for leaching experiments with refractory gold ores. Also developed laboratory experiments that Barrick personnel could use to evaluate autoclave process parameters.
• Kohler and U.S. EPA: Developed, tested and optimized a process for the removal and recovery of lead from brass wastes.
• Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund:
  Developed and optimized a process to remove mercury from copper concentrates prior to smelting.

List of Consultant Clients:
• Peninsula Copper Industries Inc. (current client): Designing the experimental protocol for developing new process streams in a copper recycling operation. Will be involved in the engineering economic analysis and decision making to determine future plant operation strategy and product lines.
• BCP Engineering: Provided expert testimony for a salt mine in Michigan in a lost-time injury case.
• Barrick Gold Company: Reviewed data to help determine the factors affecting the operation of the company’s autoclaves. Process changes based on economic evaluations were provided to the company as part of the contract.
• Custom Heat Treat: Developed a recycle strategy to recover more that 90% of the company’s waste barium chloride salts. The process was implemented based on the economic and process analysis that I provided.
• ARK Energies: Provided key contacts used in developing a strategy for constructing an electrical generator in northern Nevada.
Work Experience:
• Anaconda Minerals Company: Metallurgical engineer for a 30,000 tpd molybdenite concentrator and leaching facility. Performed operational optimization and was the engineer for three construction projects in the three years on the job.

Patents

• U.S. Patent No. 6,043,022: D. R. Lueking and C. C. Nesbitt, “Apparatus for the Generation and Use of Ferric Ions”, Issued March 28, 2000.
• U.S. Patent No. 5,827,701: D. R. Lueking and C. C. Nesbitt, “Method for the Generation and Use of Ferric Ions”, Issued October 27, 1998.
• Patent Pending: C. C. Nesbitt and X. Sun, “Process for the Manufacture and Applications of Monolithic Carbon Materials”, Application Submitted August, 1998.