Dr. Becker is a renowned metallurgist and inventor of the breakthrough processing technology being applied at Titan's tantalite refinery and Pinnacle's titanium and vanadium projects. Over the course of his illustrious 35-year career, Dr. Becker has served as consulting metallurgist for numerous multinational steel companies worldwide. He was also a key consultant to Highveld Steel and Vanadium, in Tridelta and was Senior lecturer, Department of Mate Science and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa for 24 years. Dr. Becker is most highly acclaimed for his three world patents on new processes for titanium and vanadium recovery and the production of nano scale hematite and ferrite powder. |