Travis Sickerdick
23+ years of operational mining experience, gained on-site across exploration, open-pit and underground operations, and processing plant build and commissioning. Principal of Sceptre Strategic, acting for ASX-listed and private clients across all Australian jurisdictions.
ASX-Listed & Private Companies
Operating Nationally: WA, SA, NT, QLD, NSW, TAS
Available Internationally
The Difference Between
Knowing the Regulation and Knowing the Operation.
Most compliance advisors can tell you what the legislation says. Travis can tell you what it means on the ground, because he has managed the operations those regulations are designed to govern.
His career spans the full mining lifecycle: from construction and commissioning of processing plants through to production management, tenement portfolio oversight, contaminated site remediation, and regulator relationship recovery. Each project carries a wider system — the regulator, the Aboriginal corporations and Native Title parties, the pastoralists and landowners on the ground, the contractors, the legal advisers, and the boards and investors carrying the capital. Travis engages most of those parties directly.
Travis has managed tenement portfolios for ASX-listed explorers and private mining companies operating across Australia. He has built four processing plants from the ground up (two copper cementation plants, a copper SX/EW circuit, and a gold CIC plant), managing the full approvals, construction, and commissioning pathway for each. He has recovered regulator relationships that had deteriorated over years of non-compliance, guided clients through contaminated site classifications, and designed water treatment programs that resolved environmental liabilities threatening entire operations.
He acts as registered agent for mining companies across all Australian jurisdictions, including ASX-listed and private companies. His regulatory familiarity is not theoretical. It comes from direct, repeated engagement with departmental processes, platforms, and personnel in every major mining state.
Where Clients See
the Difference.
Travis is the consultant clients bring in when something has stalled, when a deadline has slipped, or when a board needs technical advocacy carried directly to the regulator. He reads the legislation, explains what can and cannot be done, and translates regulatory complexity into a clear plan.
Mining proposals, EPEPRs, program notifications: drafted and submitted to achieve first-time approval. Every week a project waits for a declined or delayed approval is lost revenue. Travis has secured approvals for clients where prior submissions had failed and where regulator relationships had broken down.
When a client-regulator relationship has deteriorated through missed deadlines, disputed liabilities, or years of ignored correspondence, Travis brings it back. He has recovered relationships that had been damaged over 3, 5, and 10-year periods, restoring productive engagement and clearing compliance backlogs.
Contaminated site classifications, disputed rehabilitation liabilities, inherited environmental obligations: these are the issues that can cost multiples of the annual compliance budget in a single event. Travis has guided clients through contaminated site processes under the Contaminated Sites Act 2003 and resolved environmental liabilities that had been ignored for years.
Expanding a project's operational footprint requires approvals: EPEPRs, program notifications, land access agreements, Native Title mining agreements. Travis increases client project capability by securing the regulatory approvals that allow exploration programs to expand, production to scale, and new areas to come online.
Projects Managed
by the Principal.
Every image below is from an operation Travis has directly managed, from construction through to production, compliance, and closure planning.
Copper cathode production facility, managed from construction through to production. SX/EW (solvent extraction/electrowinning) is the primary hydrometallurgical process for copper recovery from oxide ores.
Crushing and materials handling infrastructure for an open pit copper operation. Plant construction, commissioning, and ongoing compliance management, including mining proposals, safety management systems, and environmental approvals.
Engineered containment infrastructure for process water and leachate management. Environmental compliance for mine sites requires containment systems that meet both regulatory standards and practical operational demands.
Operational copper processing facility encompassing the full heap leach SX/EW circuit and ancillary infrastructure. Site management covered all regulatory approvals, safety management systems, environmental monitoring, and stakeholder reporting.
Areas of Practice
Jurisdiction-Specific Depth
Specialist knowledge across all Australian mining regulatory frameworks, including state-specific processes, platforms, and compliance requirements in every jurisdiction.
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