Jason has 25 years of operations, engineering, and consulting experience in the mining and manufacturing industries. His areas of expertise in mine operations and consulting include design; performance optimization and improvement; economic analysis and valuation; and reclamation and closure planning and oversight and management of large, multidiscipline projects.
Jason’s work has given him experience with numerous commodities including rare earths, coal, salt, phosphate, potash, and industrial minerals. Before joining Barr, he served as a superintendent at Compass Minerals’ salt plant in Utah and at Graymont Western’s lime plant in Nevada, and as mine manager at the Devil’s Slide cement plant in Utah. His background also includes consulting for mines across the U.S. and in Canada and Mongolia. Jason began his career at Decker Coal Company in Montana.