Murray & Roberts Cementation reports that Mike da Costa was appointed as chief executive officer of Murray & Roberts’ Global Underground Mining Platform on August 1st, 2018. The Murray & Roberts Underground Mining Platform covers six continents and its service offering spans the project value chain including specialist engineering, shaft construction, mine development, specialist mining services, including raise boring and grouting, and contract mining.
Da Costa is an experienced mining executive with a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand as well as a Master of Business Administration from Wits Business School. He joins the Group from Lonmin where he fulfilled the role of executive vice president Group Technical Services and succeeds previous platform chief executive officer who retired at the end of July 2018 after a structure handover process.
Trevor Naidoo has succeeded David Meyer as the chief financial officer of the Underground Mining Platform; Meyer relocated to Salt Lake City to assume the role of financial director of the businesses in the USA and Canada. Naidoo is a Chartered Accounts (SA) and a Chartered Management Accountant. He was formerly the finance director of Aveng Mining.
Murray & Roberts Cementation is the leading mining contracting company in Africa and has served the needs of the mining industry for more than a century; the company operates in South Africa, Southern, West and East Africa.