Short Biography

Corale L. Brierley, Ph.D. (NAE)
Brierley Consultancy LLC
P.O. Box 630012
Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80163-0012

Phone 303 683 0074
Fax 303 683 1944
Mobile 303 475 6196
Email clbrierley@msn.com

Dr. Corale L. Brierley provides technical and business consultation to the mining and chemical industries and government agencies. She offer clients expertise and experience in (1) assessment and process design for mineral bioleaching; (2) chemical, physical and biological treatment and management of metal-bearing aqueous, solid and radioactive wastes, and (3) market analyses and business development for products and services related to metal extraction and waste treatment.

Dr. C.L. Brierley published more than 80 technical papers and five patents and is internationally recognized resulting from a career of thirty five years comprising fifteen years as an international consultant; two years with Newmont Mining Corporation as Head of Environmental Process Development; eight years of Managing Advanced Minerals Technology Inc., a metal biotechnology company; and ten years of applied research, development and teaching in her fields of expertise at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

She is a member of the Society of Mining Engineers and the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America and has served on numerous boards, panels and committees for the National Academies and other Organizations.

Dr. C.L. Brierley was inducted in 1999 into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for “innovations applying biotechnology to mine production and remediation”. Academy membership is among the highest professional distinction accorded to an engineer and honors those who have demonstrated unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology.

Dr. C.L. Brierley is the 2008 recipient of AIME´s (American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers) James Douglas Gold Medal Award “For the pioneering research and contributions to applications in bioleaching and remediation of metals”. She has a Ph. D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Texas (Dallas), a M. S. degree in Chemistry and a B. S. degree in Biology, the latter two degrees from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

OCTOBER 2007