‘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
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
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://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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