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Maurice
B Jones
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maurice@tunnelbuilder.com |
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| Year
of Birth: |
1949 |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Profession: |
Technical
editor and journalist, mining engineer and surveyor |
QUALIFICATIONS
Mining Qualifications Board First Class Certificate of Competency
in Colliery Management (1973).
HND Mining Engineering with distinctions in Surveying &
Geology and an endorsement in Mineral Dressing (1972).
ONC Mining & Mine Surveying (1969). |
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
Associate
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- serving on both national and Southern Counties Minerals
Industries Branch councils.
Registered as Incorporated Engineer with Engineering Council.
Member of British Tunnelling Society. |
CAREER
HISTORY
2003 - Date: Reference Editions Ltd Consultant Editor.
2001 - 2003: The Mining Journal Ltd. And then Mining Communications
Ltd. - Executive Editor then Consultant Editor on 'World
Tunnelling'.
2001: Polygon Media Ltd. - Editor of 'Tunnels & Tunnelling
International.
1983- 2001: Self-employed under trading names of W.A.M.
Writing & Marketing and On-Site Reports. Marketing support
services to industrial clients, and editorial services to
leading technical magazines in construction and manufacturing
sectors. Included period as Consultant Editor and News Editor
to 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International', and Editor
of 'Microtunnelling' and 'Plant Hire Review'.
1981 - 1983: Essence Marketing Ltd., Bermondsey, London
- Director. Marketing services.
1979 - 1981: Gwynne Hart & Associates Ltd., London -
Account Executive for industrial media relations clients.
1976 - 1978: Northwood Publications Ltd., London - Assistant
Editor on 'Factory Equipment News'.
1976: Ashire Publishing, London - Field Editor on 'Mine
& Quarry'.
1973 - 1975: Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines (NCCM), Chingola,
Zambia - Planning Officer (Capital Projects) and Underground
Surveyor.
1967 - 1973: National Coal Board, South Midlands Area -
Student Apprentice and Engineering Trainee in mining engineering.
Later Technical Assistant to General Manager of Daw Mill
Mine, Warwickshire, and relief Overman and Deputy.
1967: Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation (South Eastern)
Ltd., Borough Green, Kent - Apprentice. |
KEY
EXPERIENCE
Editing
- British Tunnelling Society 'Tunnel Lining Design Guide',
Executive and Consultant Editor of 'World Tunnelling',
Editor ' Tunnels & Tunnelling International', Editor
and co-Publisher 'Underground Utilities Construction',
Editor 'Microtunnelling', European Editor 'World Construction'
and 'Mining Equipment International'.
Marketing
Services - Media relations, advertising and brochure
publications for (among others) Iseki Poly-Tech, FlowMole,
Perkins Engines, Compair Construction & Mining, Compair
Industrial, Ingersoll-Rand (water-well drilling rigs),
Aero-Go (air bearings), Simon Engineering Journalism
(other) - Major contributions to titles (other than
the above) such as 'Construction' News, 'National Development,
'Food Manufacture'.
Industry
- Work on major underground pumping station complex for
Nchanga copper mine, roadstone quarrying and preparation
in limited hard-rock resources, spontaneous combustion
in coal blending, coal blending underground.
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ASSIGNMENTS
Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, Zambia. |
RESUMÉ
Maurice Jones is an internationally known technical editor
with particular expertise in all 'underground' activities.
Qualified as a colliery manager, he has 31 years of post-qualification
experience in industrial marketing services, technical editing
and journalism, mining, utilities construction, surveying,
project planning and materials handling. He has worked as
a consultant to many construction manufacturers and industrial
magazines. This includes launching 'Microtunnelling' and
'Plant Hire Review', editing 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International',
acting as Executive Editor of 'World Tunnelling' and editing
the Tunnel Lining Design Guide for the British Tunnelling
Society in co-operation with the countries leading experts
in the country. He is an accredited journalist with tunneljournalists.com. |
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