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M.B.A. - Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio 1988
B.S. - Mining Engineering, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico 1978
Experience Peter Lawson manages the Charleston and Beckley, West Virginia offices of Marshall Miller & Associates, Inc. and directs services to the firms Energy and Mineral Resource clients. He has over 25 years of practical industry experience specializing in surface mine engineering and operations management, mine permitting and environmental performance, workforce development and continuous improvement, and valuation studies. His consulting experience includes domestic and international projects in coal, base metals, industrial minerals and aggregates. He has provided litigation support services and expert witness testimony in a variety of matters relating to mining property valuation and environmental concerns.
As general manager of the largest surface coal mining operation in the eastern U.S., he doubled production and led successful continuous improvement initiatives, improving performance in the areas of safety, environmental compliance, productivity, and cost. He installed state-of-the-art blending systems utilizing online nuclear analyzers to maximize profit margins doubled capacity of coal preparation facilities and expanded a CSX rail loadout facility to 8 million ton annual capacity. He developed a graduate fellowship program with West Virginia University and the National Mined Lands Reclamation Center, in Morgantown, WV, for the development of a Manual of Best Practices for Successful Reforestation of Surface-Mined Lands.
He was selected to participate in the Ashland Oil Executive Management Program (1996) at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and was the 1978 recipient of the Old Timer's Award presented to the outstanding mining engineering student entering the coal industry. Mr. Lawson is a Society of Mining Engineers Registered Member.