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QUALIFICATIONS
Mining Qualifications Board First Class Certificate of Competency in Colliery Management (1973).
HND Mining Engineering with distinctions in Surveying & Geology and an endorsement in Mineral Dressing (1972).
ONC Mining & Mine Surveying (1969).
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Associate Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining - serving on both national and Southern Counties Minerals Industries Branch councils.
Registered as Incorporated Engineer with Engineering Council.
Member of British Tunnelling Society.
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CAREER HISTORY
2003 - Date: Reference Editions Ltd Consultant Editor.
2001 - 2003: The Mining Journal Ltd. And then Mining Communications Ltd. - Executive Editor then Consultant Editor on 'World Tunnelling'.
2001: Polygon Media Ltd. - Editor of 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International.
1983- 2001: Self-employed under trading names of W.A.M. Writing & Marketing and On-Site Reports. Marketing support services to industrial clients, and editorial services to leading technical magazines in construction and manufacturing sectors. Included period as Consultant Editor and News Editor to 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International', and Editor of 'Microtunnelling' and 'Plant Hire Review'.
1981 - 1983: Essence Marketing Ltd., Bermondsey, London - Director. Marketing services.
1979 - 1981: Gwynne Hart & Associates Ltd., London - Account Executive for industrial media relations clients.
1976 - 1978: Northwood Publications Ltd., London - Assistant Editor on 'Factory Equipment News'.
1976: Ashire Publishing, London - Field Editor on 'Mine & Quarry'.
1973 - 1975: Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines (NCCM), Chingola, Zambia - Planning Officer (Capital Projects) and Underground Surveyor.
1967 - 1973: National Coal Board, South Midlands Area - Student Apprentice and Engineering Trainee in mining engineering. Later Technical Assistant to General Manager of Daw Mill Mine, Warwickshire, and relief Overman and Deputy.
1967: Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation (South Eastern) Ltd., Borough Green, Kent - Apprentice.
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KEY EXPERIENCE
Editing - British Tunnelling Society 'Tunnel Lining Design Guide', Executive and Consultant Editor of 'World Tunnelling', Editor ' Tunnels & Tunnelling International', Editor and co-Publisher 'Underground Utilities Construction', Editor 'Microtunnelling', European Editor 'World Construction' and 'Mining Equipment International'.
Marketing Services - Media relations, advertising and brochure publications for (among others) Iseki Poly-Tech, FlowMole, Perkins Engines, Compair Construction & Mining, Compair Industrial, Ingersoll-Rand (water-well drilling rigs), Aero-Go (air bearings), Simon Engineering Journalism (other) - Major contributions to titles (other than the above) such as 'Construction' News, 'National Development, 'Food Manufacture'.
Industry - Work on major underground pumping station complex for Nchanga copper mine, roadstone quarrying and preparation in limited hard-rock resources, spontaneous combustion in coal blending, coal blending underground.
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ASSIGNMENTS
Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, Zambia.
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RESUMÉ
Maurice Jones is an internationally known technical editor with particular expertise in all 'underground' activities. Qualified as a colliery manager, he has 31 years of post-qualification experience in industrial marketing services, technical editing and journalism, mining, utilities construction, surveying, project planning and materials handling. He has worked as a consultant to many construction manufacturers and industrial magazines. This includes launching 'Microtunnelling' and 'Plant Hire Review', editing 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International', acting as Executive Editor of 'World Tunnelling' and editing the Tunnel Lining Design Guide for the British Tunnelling Society in co-operation with the countries leading experts in the country. He is an accredited journalist with tunneljournalists.com.
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