Behind the Scenes with Bryan

About Behind the Scenes with Bryan

This is generally an engineering podcast that often pertains to the world of mining, and especially mining waste management, or whatever else captures my imagination. The episodes, thankfully, will be fairly brief.

Publisher

Bryan Ulrich

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jul 2019

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

218 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Episode 215: a conversation with Tracie Jackson

   Tracie is the Hydrology Manager at Barrick Gold Corporation. She has a unique professional track record and has recently helped spearhead the development of a new publicly available, Excel-based water balance tool for tailings facilities, known as TSFISM (Tailings-Storage Facility Iterative Simulation Model). You can find a paper on this and a link to the spreadsheet at https://halfordhydrology.com/tsfism/

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Episode 214: a conversation with Michel Julien

   Michel is a long-time friend and client and is the Vice President of Environment and Critical Infrastructure at Agnico Eagle. Michel and I discuss his amazing career. We didn't even talk about the amazing fact that in 2025, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) – one of the highest professional honours in the Canadian engineering community.

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Episode 213: a conversation with Henk Van Alphen

   Henk is the CEO of Wealth Minerals Ltd (https://nor01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwealthminerals.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C99667c1a06c64bed400908dee6984066%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639201738750744073%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DzQnftoL%2F79rRogXYc%2FFTGkVr1AY%2FBPrZfIoUqx2aXQ%3D&reserved=0). Wealth Minerals has structured its Kuska Lithium Project partnership with the Quechua Indigenous Community of Ollagüe to include a 5% free-carried interest and direct board participation for the community. The company has also emphasized Direct Lithium Extraction technologies and minimal environmental footprint as part of its development strategy.We discuss his perspective on how mining companies may need to rethink development models entirely if they want projects to move forward successfully in Chile and elsewhere. With more than three decades in mining and over $1 billion raised in mining finance transactions, Henk has been directly involved in the evolution of the critical minerals sector long before lithium became a mainstream geopolitical story.

Who has been a guest on Behind the Scenes with Bryan

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Chelsea Burdon
• Chat GPT
• Mike O'Kane
• Caius Priscu
• Kim Morrison

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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