Barry Carlson has over 35 years of experience in project management and project design for numerous mining projects and operations across the United States, including heap leach water balance management and analyses, feasibility studies, geotechnical design and analyses, site reclamation planning and remedial action planning. Recent acknowledgments include optimizing recovery of heap leach pads and process components, detailed heap leach process analyses and dynamic systems water balances for heap leach operations in the U.S. and abroad. Included in these projects were flow processes analyses and gold recovery projections. Barry’s experience includes management and interactions with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and multiple state agencies, including Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP), Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), Washington State Department of Health (WDOH), and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for mining projects on federal and private lands in the United States. Areas of expertise include heap leach/process design, feasibility studies, mine closure and reclamation, geotechnical/civil engineering, hydrologic/hydraulic analysis, site characterization, well installation/monitoring, permitting/compliance and construction quality assurance, which he has provided to clients such as Phelps Dodge Corporation, Alexco Resources Corporation, Barrick Gold Corporation, Kinross and Goldcorp, Inc.