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Bruno Salvoldi
Director
Bruno joined Paterson & Cooke in 2011 and is a director at our Cape Town office in South Africa. He leads the mine backfill department that covers our African operations and has completed projects from conceptual level through to detailed engineering, implementation, and commissioning.
Bruno’s postgraduate studies focused on cement chemistry, and he now specialises in its application to backfill. He is part of the Paterson & Cooke Backfill Group and is involved globally with problematic backfill applications related to geochemistry and cement chemistry.
B.G. Salvoldi & T. Kraft, ‘Chapter 3: Mine Fill Consitutive Materials’, (2025) Y Potvin & R Veenstra (eds), Handbook on Mine Fill, 2nd edn, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth.
B.G. Salvoldi, M.E. Gillmer & H. Beushausen, ‘Determining the Durability of Self compacting Concrete using the South African Early-age Durability Index Tests’, (2009), International Conference on Advanced Concrete Materials, Stellenbosch, South Africa, ACM.
B.G. Salvoldi, M.G. Alexander, H. Beushausen, “Modelling the Carbonation of Concrete using Performance based Tests: Proposition of a Conceptual Framework”, (2011), 13th International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement, Madrid, Spain.
B.G. Salvoldi, H. Beushausen, M.G. Alexander, (2015) “Oxygen Permeability of Concrete and its Relation to Carbonation”, Construction and Building Materials 85.
B.G.Salvoldi, B. van der Spuy, S.Wilson, (2019) “Optimisation of cemented aggregate backfill at New Luika Gold Mine”, Paste 2019, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Cape Town, South Africa.
I. Bazán, P. Ainsworth & B.G. Salvoldi, ‘Reduction of Strength Losses in Paste Backfill with Sludge Cake’, (2023), 25th International Conference on Paste, Thickened and Filtered Tailings, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Banff Canada.
B.G Salvoldi & J. Gerhardi, ‘Micro Paste – Producing paste backfill utilising ultra-fine copper tailings’, (2025), 27th International Conference on Paste, Thickened and Filtered Tailings, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Swakopmund Namibia.