Hall of Fame - Kurt Gitzlaff

Kurt Gitzlaff.

Director of Mine Engineering - Cleveland Cliffs Inc.

Kurt has been using Maptek Vulcan since 1998 at Cleveland-Cliffs. When he started at Cleveland-Cliffs, every mine site had its own individual mine planning software package.

Kurt made a decision in 1998 to purchase one planning software and that software was Vulcan. After a few years of using Vulcan for short-range planning, he started to build expertise for strategic planning.

Kurt helped with the integration of Maptek Vulcan systems that would be used at all Cliffs mining sites for planning from Life of Mine down to annual budgets. This system and workflow are still in place today.

When Kurt is not working, he spends his time coaching his daughter in volleyball or chauffeuring his son to hockey. Otherwise, Kurt and his wife are out somewhere training for their next marathon.


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Allan Schappert
Senior Resource Geologist
Stantec

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Ben McKnight.

Ben McKnight
Chief Surveyor
Nevada Gold Mines

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Peter Lauder.

Peter Lauder
Fenelon Project with Wallbridge as the Exploration Manager

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Miguel Angel Ruiz Miranda.

Miguel Angel Ruiz Miranda
Technical Services Manager
Alamos Gold Inc

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