‘Being honest throughout your career is the best thing you can do, and is respected throughout the industry’ 

Tim Livesey shares his fascinating career journey from his first role in South Africa to his present role as CEO of Oriole Resources Plc. As someone who has worked for both smaller and larger companies, he has extensive experience in the mining industry across different levels and projects. Listen in now to hear his advice for those who are beginning their own journey in the industry today. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Beginning my career in South Africa was an opportunity to work in exploration and get mining experience very early on in my career. It confirmed that I didn’t really like working underground but also gave me a really good understanding of production,   of sampling, blasting safety communication and management. 
• South Africa is very different from other places but at a project level there isn’t a great deal of difference, the people who you interact with have the same aspirations. 
• Working in Africa provided me with the opportunity to move upwards more quickly. If there was an opportunity to learn something new I would take it, and this helped broaden my skill set. 

• Working remotely with small teams gives you a great deal of autonomy and when you are working in this way you really get to know the people you are working with. If you have the right mixture of empathy and people skills you can develop positively as a good leader. 
• Stratex International 
• The company had some assets and licences and had tried to get into more advanced projects but the skills in the company were more suited to early exploration. 
• It was about refocusing what was being brought to the investors. 
• The company refocused on the early generation marketplace. The rebranding marked the change of direction and the company then acquired some licences in Cameroon which provided new targets to chase. 

• At the management and strategic level, the company has been refreshed and is moving in a direct direction 
• We’ve tightened the cost structure and have a good understanding of where we want the company to go and what exit strategies look like. 
• I know what people are looking for and as a team, we have a good technical reputation along with strong compliance and administrative teams. 
• We do things properly and invest a lot of time in building social licence and doing the right thing in projects that we run. 
• We have skills in our teams that are pertinent to West Africa geology, so the African, European time zone is where we are best suited. 

• You increase your chances of success by going into good areas with good prospects, good teams and working well with the local government and the local people. 
• If you can align those things then you maximise your chances for success. 

BEST MOMENTS 

‘You don’t measure your social performance by how much you have spent on it’ 

‘As a company, we’ve undergone a massive change’ 

It was a really good apprenticeship for a graduate’ 

You either adapt or you don’t’ 

Everything is linked to mining and responsible mining is a positive’ 

As an industry, we are getting better at promoting the positive effects of what we do but we need to do more to work collectively’ 

Adaptability is one of the key traits of those who work in the mining industry’ 

You don’t measure your social performance by how much you have spent on it’ 

It’s a broad church the mining business and everyone adds something to it’ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES 

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ABOUT THE GUEST 

Tim Livesey 

Tim Livesey is the Director & Group CEO of Oriole Resources Plc, an AIM-listed company who are a base metal exploration and development company focusing on Europe and Africa. Tim talks about his journey having worked for some of the big mining houses like Barrick Gold & Anglo American in Africa early in his career before moving back to the UK and working in senior management and getting on the board of a few companies. He concludes explaining the re-branding of Stratex International into now Oriole Resources and why and how they went about doing this.   

CONTACT METHOD 

https://orioleresources.com/  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-livesey-3744074/?originalSubdomain=uk   

ABOUT THE HOST 

Rob Tyson 

Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community insight to people’s experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics. 

Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from the first world to third world countries from Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. We source, headhunt and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients’ organisation in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. 

CONTACT METHOD 

Email Rob at rob@mining-international.org 

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