Tony Arena has over 20 years of experience across the Australian and global mining industry including 10 years in managerial roles mentoring engineers, metallurgists, operators and supervisors. He also had vast experience in the successful commissioning of mineral processing facilities within Australasia, including PNG and Laos. Mr Arena was the metallurgical and production superintendent at the Roy Hill Iron Ore Operations in the Pilbara where he oversaw the successful commissioning of what is the largest individual iron ore processing plant in the Pilbara. During that time, he was also acting as the processing manager and alternate registered manager. Prior to that, Mr Arena was process and maintenance manager at Silverlake Resources’ Murchison Operations in WA, senior process engineer and metallurgical superintendent for Newcrest Mining’s Lihir Island operations in PNG, senior process engineer/metallurgical superintendent for MMG at its copper operations in Laos, and senior process engineering/process superintendent at Straits Resources' Whim Creek Project. Earlier in his career, he was process engineer/KPI developer for Rio Tinto’s Alcan Gove operations, process engineer for Tiwest Titanium’s Pigment Plant in Kwinana, and process engineer/shift supervisor for Glencore/Xstrata’s Windimurra Vanadium Project in WA. Mr Arena holds a Bachelor of Science (Extractive Metallurgy) from Murdoch University in WA and is undertaking a diploma in leadership.
