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Mary B. Korpi
Mary B. Korpi is a chemical engineering graduate of Michigan Technological University. She began working for Newmont Mining Corporation’s Magma Copper Company in San Manuel, Arizona in 1976 holding various metallurgical services positions including shift supervisor, quality control analyst, metallurgist, and senior metallurgist for customer relations.
She transferred to Newmont’s Nevada operations in 1987 and served in a variety of capacities, including Director of Metallurgical Services, Director of Loss Control, Leach and Mill Superintendent, and Director of External Relations and Communications for North America. In this role she oversaw Newmont’s North American regional activities in issue management, local government, media management, community relations and development, external communications, and minerals education. Korpi retired from Newmont in 2016 after almost four decades in the mining industry.
Korpi has continued her involvement and support of SME and the industry through volunteer boards and commissions. Serving as SME Foundation 2019-2021 President, she led the Foundation in its mission to be the source of funding for education and outreach to SME and the community it serves. She was awarded a 2011 SME Presidential Citation and selected as a 2022 AIME Honorary Member.
Appointed by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval in 2017 and again by Governor Steve Sisolak in 2021, Korpi serves on the State of Nevada’s Commission on Mineral Resources. She was elected to the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum’s Board of Governors in 2021, and currently is serving a four-year term.
Korpi was recognized in 2016 as a Distinguished Nevadan for her profound and lasting impact on the lives of all Nevadans. She has been inducted into Michigan Technological University’s Presidential Council of Alumnae and the Nevada Women’s Fund Women of Achievement. Besides SME, she is also a member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Women’s Mining Coalition, Geological Society of Nevada, Mining History Association, Women in Mining, and the American Association of University Women.
Michael Routledge
Mick Routledge has an MBA in International Business Management from Henley Management College and Brunel University in London, United Kingdom and a BEng.(Honors) in Engineering 1st Class – Major Power Electrical and Control Systems from Sunderland University (Sunderland, UK).
Since 2020, Routledge has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Coeur Mining covering all the operations including Palmarejo Mine in the Chihuahua region of Mexico. Previously Routledge worked with Alacergold developing their operational excellence program across the Copler Gold operations in Turkey. Additionally, he owns a business driving the development and roll out of fatal risk reduction and business performance improvement processes and tools as CEO of RUT LLC. He has 30 years of experience in mining, metals, contracting and the power generation sectors. Most of his career was spent with Rio Tinto in executive roles including Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, HSE & Capital Projects at Kennecott Utah Copper covering all operating disciplines, strategic planning and business transformation. International experience covers the UK, US and projects across Australia, Canada and Europe including a period as chairman of RTAs Smelting Global Technology Committee.
Routledge has been a member of SME for many years, chairing the Fellow Award Committee and serving as division representative on the Robert Earll McConnell Award Committee, but mainly involved with the Health and Safety Division where he served in all roles of the Division Executive Committee progressing to serve as the Division Chair in 2020. As a past chair, he continues to actively participate in the Division, including recent involvement in an important major construction industry ASCE membership event in Boston where he helped to represent the mining industry and SME as a leader in driving best practices throughout our industry and beyond.
SA Ravishankar
SA Ravishankar (Ravi) has been serving the mineral industry and SME for over three decades providing technology solutions to industry challenges as an outstanding global leader. He has a doctorate from Virginia Tech in material science and engineering and two master’s degrees in metallurgical engineering and chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has developed several patented sustainable technologies on energy efficiency, economic beneficiation, minimal water usage and enhancement of physical separation to several industrial minerals.
His distinguished service to SME has included “boots on the ground” (organizing technical sessions) and leadership roles including Industrial Minerals and Aggregates Division Program Chair and Division Chair. He also served on the SME Structure & Governance Committee. His technical and managerial leadership in the industry has always been interlaced with a keen sense of public service to professional and educational institutions such as SME, UAMA, Columbia and NC State universities as an industrial advisory board member. He also serves as the SME Representative to the AIME Hoover Medal Award Committee.
He has authored over 30 publications in journals and books and presented several papers and keynote speeches at SME and several international conferences. He continues to work at Saint-Gobain in a senior leadership role with the Surface Solutions group.
Ravishankar has been recognized with several awards for his outstanding technical innovation and leadership both from the industries he worked for and from SME/AIME. He was a recipient of the prestigious Frank Aplan and Robert Richards Awards and was selected as a 2022 SME Fellow. Ravishankar has exemplified the SME mission with well exhibited confidence, professionalism, honesty, humility, passion, accountability, and creative thinking, and impacted younger members through positive mentoring.