With a career that began in 1987 and has taken him around the world, Scott has extensive experience, not only as a consultant, but in a host of senior technical management roles within the mining industry. His expertise ranges from mine geology, grade control and reconciliation, to mine planning and geotechnical engineering, including operational and managerial experience in silver, lead, zinc, copper, tin, gold and nickel in an equally broad range of geological and mining environments. Renowned for his highly systematic approach to mine planning, mining geology, strategic management and improving business performance, Scott is also a first-class trainer and mentor, and has authored a number of touchstone publications.

Danny is a Geostatistician who has been working with SRK for over 25 years. His experience and interests cover resource estimation, geological modelling, open cut and underground mine planning, surveying, metallurgical characterisation and waste characterisation.

Jeff is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta and co-director of the Centre for Computational Geostatistics (CCG). His research interests concentrate on geostatistical numerical modeling and uncertainty management with a focus on mining, petroleum, and wildland fire. Numerical modeling is concerned with generating a set of spatial models of variables such as mineral grade, contaminates, flow properties, fire behavior, etc. These models are used to make important engineering decisions in mine design, exploration campaign design, wildland fire management, preplanning, well placement, well management and contaminate cleanup strategies. Uncertainty management focuses on making these engineering decisions in an optimal way that maximizes value, minimizes environmental impact, and minimizes risk. Numerical modeling and uncertainty management are often framed as optimization problems, so machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization techniques are used to improve solutions.

Dhaniel Carvalho is the Principal Resource Geologist for Glencore in Australia, focused on 4 word-class mines: Mount Isa Cu and Pb-Zn mines and McArthur River Mine. With 11 years of experience with mineral resources evaluation, geological modeling and geostatistics he brings comprehensive experience in gold, zinc, lead, copper, and polymetallic deposits. He has advanced knowledge in geological modeling and mineral resources evaluation using classical and advanced geostatistical methods, construction of complex geological, and vast expertise with different commercial software and python scripting. With resource modeling experiences in Brazil, Canada, Peru, Australia, Kazakhstan, and Namibia, Dhaniel was responsible for preparation of mineral resources reports under the JORC and NI 43-101 guidelines, reconciliation of mineral resources and resources sign-off. Dhaniel recently pursued a master’s degree in Mining Engineering and Geostatistics at the University of Alberta, with focus on probabilistic resource estimation (geometry and grade simulation), under supervision of Dr. Clayton Deutsch. This experience developed not only his geostatistical knowledge but also the scripting skills required for building automation tools for a range of interesting resource modeling problems. He is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.

Ilnur is a Principal Global Modelling & Data in Resource Centre of Excellence, BHP. He currently enables, guides and supports in Uncertainty Quantification and Conditional simulations in BHP, provides technical governance to research projects, assists assets with issues in mathematical modelling/numerical calculations, review resource models and assists IPR. He previously worked for COSMO Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory (McGill University), Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, TimeZYX – National Centre for Development of Innovative Technologies (Petroleum), Yandex (Image search).

Cecilia is currently a Principal Resource Geologist in the Rio Tinto Copper Technical group based in Brisbane. Cecilia’s 25 years of experience in mineral resource estimation, geological modelling and exploration programs, has given her a strong understanding of all facets of the mining value chain. She has been involved in the development of mining projects from exploration programs to the feasibility study level and operating mines. During Cecilia’s time in consulting, she worked closely with Dr Harry Parker and Dr Georges Verly and together they presented a paper about a Classification and Grade Control Dilution Study via Conditional Simulation work that they performed in 2017. Prior to this, Cecilia was Head of the Information and Resource Estimation Department for Southern Copper Corporation – at that time, the biggest copper producer in Peru – where she was part of the discovery team of La Tapada copper porphyry deposit (500 Mt @ 0.41% Cu). Continuous development is very important to Cecilia, and she has completed numerous post-graduate courses in the areas of geometallurgy, geostatistics, QA/QC, finance, and mine management since graduating with a Masters from the University of Brasilia, Brazil in 2006. Currently, she is studying a part-time Masters in Geometallurgy at the University of Queensland.

Clint is a self-described Mining Enthusiast. He’s a geologist passionate about Geostatistics, and even occasionally dabbles with Mineral Economics. He enjoyed a career living and working in South and West Africa before migrating to Perth. He is currently with Anglo American focussed on evaluating and quantifying Mineral Endowment predominantly Bulk commodities and Base Metals.

With a career that began in 1987 and has taken him around the world, Scott has extensive experience, not only as a consultant, but in a host of senior technical management roles within the mining industry. His expertise ranges from mine geology, grade control and reconciliation, to mine planning and geotechnical engineering, including operational and managerial experience in silver, lead, zinc, copper, tin, gold and nickel in an equally broad range of geological and mining environments. Renowned for his highly systematic approach to mine planning, mining geology, strategic management and improving business performance, Scott is also a first-class trainer and mentor, and has authored a number of touchstone publications.

René is the Managing Director at RSC and the 2023 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference chair. He holds a master’s degree in Structural Geology and Tectonics, and specialises in resource development for gold, industrial minerals, seabed mineralisation, REE and base metals, with a strong skill set in grade control, reconciliation, QA/QC and sampling. He is a Chartered Professional and Fellow with the AusIMM, a Registered Professional Geologist with the AIG, and has published papers and provided training on sampling, QA/QC and resource estimation.

A senior resources industry professional with over 23 years’ experience since graduating with BSc. Applied Geology (Hons). Leigh has held several senior management roles responsible for all aspects of Geology and the broader technical services disciplines, including as Global Manager Resources and Exploration for ArcelorMittal. Leigh has always kept one foot outside the geology box which has enabled me to develop a much broader understanding of the technical requirements across the value chain and the internal complexities and issues faced by mining companies. Leigh was the first International AusIMM Representative for the UK, inaugurating and chairing the AusIMM UK Committee from early 2020 to 2022. Leigh has been a Member of the AusIMM for 18 years, the last 2 as a Fellow, and he is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.