About Smart Dog Mining

I am Mike Albrecht, IRetired P.E. (Az), the principal behind Smart Dog Mining, a professional mining engineer with many years’ experience.

EXPERTISE

• Process & Equipment
  • Crushing & Grinding
  • Screening & Classification
  • Gravity Separation
  • Flotation
  • Dryeing and Dewatering
  • Bulk Material Handling
• Minerals and Metals
  • Copper
  • Coal
  • Precious Metals
  • Industrial Minerals
  • Aggregate & Sand
  • Iron Ore
  • Oil Sands
  • Phosphate
  • Rare Earth Minerals
  • Lithium
• Equipment Design and Development
• Simulation & Modeling

SERVICES INCLUDE

• Studies
  • Scoping, Pre-feasibility, Feasibility
  • Process Flowsheet Development
  • Preliminary Capital and Operating Cost Estimates
  • Feed and Product characterization
  • Technical Auditing and Due Diligence
• Project/EPCM Support
  • Owner's Represntative/Project Manager
• Operations Support
  • Process Analysis and Optimization
  • Plant Auditing and Optimization
  • Solving Plant Recovery/Quality Problems
• Equipment Design and Development
• Simulation & Modeling

PROFESSIONAL

·        Registered Professional Engineer (Mining) Arizona, No. 34624 (Inactive)

·        Licensed Engineering Contractor State of California, No. 454984 (Inactive)

·       US Patent No. 5,616,245 High Gravity Separator - process technology for fine particle gravity separation

THECNICAL PUBLICATIONS

A list of my technical publications is here!

SOME HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

For information of a more academic nature see my personal site!

For information on winemaking see  Smart Dog Winery!

Our Smart Dog

Our logo is based on a border collie.  Over the years we have had several, and they have all been very smart dogs.  Our first was Duchess a tri-color (black, white and brown), we got in Illinois.  She was very loving and knew how to push her limits.  Our second was Prince a rough coat black and white McNab Border Collie.  Prince was a very smart dog and was very good a finding his treasures.  Our current  smart dog is Red, a reddish brown Border Collie, also very good at finding treasurers.

If you have any questions or looking for help on a mining project: E-mail: info@smartdogmining.com

o   40+ years’ experience in the mining industry with strong mineral processing experience in Precious metals, copper, industrial minerals, coal, and phosphate

o   Operational experience in precious metals, coal, and phosphate plus in petrochemicals.

o   Extensive experience studies and feasibility in the US and international (United States, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, and Greece).