Nerves of steel helped this leader deal with cyclone destruction
The winner of the Women in Leadership Awards Resources, industrials and utilities category led the rebuild of GEMCO’s manganese operation after Tropical Cyclone Megan.
Vanessa Torres from South32: “If you work too many hours, you become ineffective.” Anderson Salazar
The day mining executive Vanessa Torres took over the chief operations role at South32, a tropical cyclone caused catastrophic damage to its Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) project in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Hitting over two days in mid-March last year, Tropical Cyclone Megan caused an intense weather system, producing record rainfall of 681mm and the strongest wind gusts in two decades. Mining pits were flooded, causing significant damage to infrastructure.
