Anne-Audrey Latscha is a Principal Geologist at Rio Tinto Iron Ore, in Perth (Australia). After graduating of a Bsc (Hons) in Geology - Geochemistry from Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France) and a Msc in Hydrogeology from Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France), she has been working for 6 years as a Hydrogeologist Consultant in France, before moving to Australia 15 years ago where she joined the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Resource Development Team. She occupied diverse roles in Geosciences mostly as a Groundwater Modelling Specialist, and from Evaluation Geologist to Superintendent Geological Modelling & Resource Estimation and more recently she is a Principal Geoscience in the Resource Geology and Data Management Team, working mostly on technical and business improvement projects with a focus on the development of tools and practices to assist in characterizing Resource Uncertainty. The diversity of roles at different stages of the Resource Definition Value Chain gave her a comprehensive overview of the resource definition practices in Iron Ore. She is passionate by any opportunity for continuous improvement in OBK practices and finding alternate ways to improve the Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves definition.

Jonathan Moore, Group Manager - Resource Development, OceanaGold, has worked internationally in resource and mine geology environments for 30 years. He is particularly interested in team-based problem solving, mine chain reconciliation and extracting value out of production data.

Ian is a geologist with postgraduate qualifications in geostatistics, mining geology and computing who has more than 30 years’ worldwide experience in the mining industry. He has worked on mineral projects and given training courses to thousands of attendees on every continent apart from Antarctica! Ian’s skills are in resource evaluation and due diligence reviews, public reporting, training and mentoring, quantitative risk assessment, strategic advice, geostatistics, reconciliation, project management, statutory and competent persons’ reporting and mining geology studies. Ian has a strong mining production background and is a regular auditor for the world’s largest mining companies.

Geologist with nine years of experience in resource evaluation, geological modeling, and reporting of mineral resources. Background in 3D modeling, geostatistical methods, and evaluation of gold, phosphate, and rare earth minerals. Experience in standardizing and managing the QAQC protocols of geological data, reconciling long-term and ore control models to production on monthly basis and reporting mineral resources under international code’s guidelines. Technical support in all aspects of geological interpretation and resource estimation for operating underground and open pit mines and exploration projects.

Bruce’s career has spanned 40 years of worldwide field experience in the mining industry. In his early career as a geologist Bruce developed an affinity for working with land connected peoples and set up Rio Tinto’s first exploration access agreements with Aboriginal people in Australia. For the last 20 years Bruce has been at the forefront of developing Social Performance as a new professional discipline in the extractive sector. For seven years Bruce was Global Practice Leader – Communities and Social Performance at Rio Tinto, leading a small team of achievement and distinction. As well as his role as an Adjunct Professor at the SMI, Bruce is currently the Principal of a boutique consultancy, resolution88, specialising in ‘Social Licence’ solutions for the extractive sector. Well published, Bruce maintains that earning a Social Licence is essentially a matter of cultural recognition and economics. Extractive companies want to operate in peoples’ backyards with irreversible changes to natural and social landscapes, some induced by industrial development and some occurring anyway. In return, local people want economic opportunity whilst preserving their idiosyncratic cultural norms and local environmental integrity. Bruce believes strategy is important, but that lack of individual and company capability is the weak link in answering the Social Licence challenge. He believes that many companies attempt to earn social endorsement through public relations approaches at great expense with little success. Instead, he advocates and teaches an approach based on mobilising the practical skills of the extractive sector aligned to the intergenerational aspirations of host communities. Bruce has a unique ability born of many years’ field experience and front line social innovation to reflect, research and teach in the field of Social Licence and Social Performance.