Metcom Technologies Inc. (www.metcomtech.

com)

Metcom is a US-based company specializing in systematic optimization of mineral

grinding circuits through training of plant metallurgists via a 60-hour, 21-step, self-
directed training program that provides plant personnel with the tools they need to
implement and sustain grinding circuit performance improvements.

Metcom was founded in 2003 by Dr. Robert E. McIvor. Dr. McIvor has devoted his
career to the design and optimization of grinding circuits. He earned a B.Sc. in Mining
Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters in Mineral Economics
from McGill University before going to work for Allis-Chalmers. There he worked in
slurry pump and grinding mill application engineering, the latter as understudy of F.C.
Bond and C.A. Rowland, Jr. He moved to Dominion Engineering to head mill application
design, and then to Linatex Canada to manage pump and cyclone equipment process
design. Having discovered The Functional Performance Equation for Closed Circuit
Grinding, he returned to McGill to earn his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering by
developing methodology for industrial plant grinding process improvement. Moving into
private practice, he developed a comprehensive system and training program for plant
grinding process management. He then worked for Cleveland-Cliffs in grinding process
improvement and managed research and development before founding Metcom
Technologies, Inc. In 2010 the Canadian Mineral Processors awarded him the Art
MacPherson Medal for Significant Contributions to Comminution Technology.

Since his time at Allis-Chalmers, Rob has followed and continued the work of C.A.
Rowland, Jr., in expanding the use of the Bond method for circuit design and energy
efficiency measurement, applying it in numerous plants with all types of grinding
equipment.

Kyle Bartholomew, McIvors understudy and senior metallurgist at Metcom, has a B. Sc.
In Chemical Engineering from the Michigan Technological University and a M. Sc. in
Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota. Kyle holds the
Association of Energy Engineers Certified Energy Manager credential and is co-inventor
of four US patents.

Prior to joining Metcom, Kyle worked as a metallurgist at Cleveland-Cliffs conducting

plant grinding studies under the guidance of Dr. McIvor. Following his time at Cleveland-
Cliffs, Kyle was the acting director of mineral processing at the University of Minnesota
Coleraine Minerals Research Laboratory where he led engineers and technicians in
applied minerals research including laboratory and pilot scale flowsheet development.