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Robert Cooke
Consultant
Robert Cooke founded Paterson & Cooke with Angus Paterson in 1991 and until 2025 served in numerous leadership roles at Paterson & Cooke.
He is now a technical consultant focused on improving tailings and slurry pipeline systems while helping mentor the next generation of expert engineers.
Robert serves on several tailings review boards and has extensive experience with slurry pipelines, mine tailings and backfill, hydraulic hoisting, and marine mining applications.
Cooke, R., T.LG. Gerritsen, Y. Mladinic, I. Oyarzun, and T. Tran “The Tailings Management Partnership Agreement, a unique industry collaboration to achieve safer tailings facilities”, Paste 2023, Banff, Canada.
Kujawa, C., J. Winterton, R. Jansen, R. Cooke (2019) “Innovative Process Engineering to Create Better Tailings Facilities”, Tailings 2019, Santiago, Chile.
Cooke, R. and J. Stowe (2019) “New Approaches and Technology for Tailings Pipeline Design and Operation”, SME, Denver, USA.
Stowe, J. R. Cooke, I. Farrell, R. Martinson (2018) “Design Considerations for Distributed Tailings Deposition Systems”, Tailings and Mine Waste, Keystone, CO, USA.
Cooke, R. and J. Stowe (2018) “Developments in Tailings Pipeline Transportation”, Tailings 2018, Santiago, Chile.