Fran Burgess

Process Manager, QLD - Ausenco

Fran is a metallurgist with more than 40 years’ experience in the mining industry. She has an extensive operational background in running mines, mineral processing plants and smelters, most notably the lead smelter at Mt Isa. Fran believes that you create your own miracles from determination and hard work and has done so many times in her career, such as significant zinc recovery improvement at Pasminco Elura Mine using stirred mill detritors, the ramp up of Pasminco Century to achieve the planned recovery regardless of the feed grade and the feed tonnage, and changing the safety culture at a zinc processing plant in Mount Isa and Zinifex Rosebery Mine.