Fraser's work focuses on open pit mining engineering, strategic planning and optimisation, mine design, equipment selection, and capital and operating cost estimates. Fraser’s professional career has included mine planning for copper, gold, polymetallic, iron ore, and emerald projects.
His other speciality areas include cut-off grade strategies, in-pit crushing, conveying, and truck haulage modelling. He is an experienced user of Deswik, Surpac, Vulcan, Whittle, and NPVS. Fraser currently focuses on development of life of mine plans and Mineral Reserve estimation, and has worked on projects in West Africa, Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia.
