Mining Magazine July 2017 | Page 56

AMG MINING
Operations and a postgraduate in Mineral Processing , at University of Queensland in Australia , Fabiano Costa , has much to be proud of .
He began his young career , still at the age of 16 , working in the family mining business and later on as an operator of heavy equipment in the extinct Águas Claras Mine , former MBR , which today is the giant Vale . For six years he was a Mining Engineer at Samarco until he left to explore other horizons in Chile , Canada and Australia , through BHP Billiton , a global leader in natural resources . In Laos , Southeast Asia , he was part of the implementation of the largest copper
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