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E-mail: peter@peterdarling.co.uk

Freelance Technical Journalist. Technical articles (construction, tunneling, engineering, oil, quarrying and mining), corporate reports, company literature, tender documents, site reports, PR pieces, annual reports (front-of-book), speeches, company and personal profiles, technical appraisals, bid documents and news items. (Worked for BP Oil, Rio Tinto, Atlas Copco, Wirth, Halcrow, World Coal, NATM, the MOD, Svedala, Tarmac, Evraz (Russia) and Acquisitions Monthly.)

Also military service in Royal (Auxilary) Air Force (Press & Public Relations Squadron)

January to July 2003, mobilised for Gulf War II as a Flight Lieutenant: Qatar and Basra, Iraq. In addition, October 2006 to December 2006 NATO HQ in Mons, Belgium as a Squadron Leader, as well as April to August 2007mobilised for NATO service: Kandahar, Afghanistan

Rio Tinto plc, Internal Communications & Public Relations Manager.

Editor of various magazines, including International Construction, Construction Asia, Cement, Rock Products (European Edition) and Engineering & Mining Journal (European Edition).

The Editor, Tunnels & Tunneling.

Various Technical Editorial positions for international mining, quarrying and heavy-construction related journals, based in the UK and the USA, including International Mining, Engineering & Mining Journal, Coal Edition and Rock Products.

Mining engineer: platinum mine in South Africa and surface tin mine in Brazil.

Engineer in international oil industry, mainly offshore W-Africa.

• Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Imperial College, London
• Chartered Engineer
• Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (Member)
• Institute of Public Relations (Member)