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Session 5 | Orebody Knowledge

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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Speaker

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Daniel Howe
Chief Geological Officer
Northern Star Resources Limited

Day 2 Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30 AM - 8:35 AM

Biography

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Paul Hodkiewicz
Consultant, Advisor, Mentor
Samarah Solutions

Keynote | Fun with Patterns and Perspectives: The Future of Orebody Knowledge

8:35 AM - 9:05 AM

Biography

Paul has worked as a geoscientist in the mining industry for 35 years across a range of commodities and mineral systems, in exploration, resource development, mining operations, technology development, research, consulting and senior management, with Anglo American, BHP, SRK Consulting, Newmont and Freeport McMoRan. He completed BSc and MSc degrees in geology and structural geology in the US and a PhD in economic geology at the University of Western Australia. Paul is currently an independent consultant, advisor and mentor based in Perth.
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Karl van Olden
Executive Lead - Operations
AMC Consultants

AusIMM Consultants Society | Weaving the threads together

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM

Biography

Karl is a mining engineer with 30 years hands-on operational and technical experience working in challenging open pit and underground mines across Africa and Australia. He has leadership experience in senior roles for multi-national resource companies and as a Mining Industry consultant. He has been sponsor, project manager, technical lead and contributor to over 500 diverse global mining industry assignments. These include due diligence reviews, independent technical reports, feasibility studies, Ore Reserves, financial analysis, valuations, mine planning and operational optimisation. Karl is a Fellow of the AusIMM and is a trusted advisor to a growing list of company executives. Karl has qualifications in engineering, economics and an MBA. Specialties: Mining Engineer, Underground, Open Pit, Ore Reserve estimation, Mine Planning, Feasibility studies, Deep Level Wits Gold, Operational Management, Project and Technical team management.
Mr Ron Reid
Group Resource Geologist
Harmony Gold Mining Company

Hidden between the data, small but significant high-grade structural lodes

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Biography

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Mrs Rogie Lumaad Paras
Project Geologist - Surface
Evolution Mining

Mine-scale reflection of a multi-stage regional structural history in the orebody geometry of Cutters Ridge Open Pit, Mungari, WA

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Biography

Rogie is an open pit and underground mine geologist whose experience includes narrow-vein gold and porphyry copper-gold with major and mid-tier mining companies across Western Australia, the Philippines and Victoria.
Ms Roseanna Dale
Project Geologist
Sandfire Resources

Enhancing Geometallurgical Ore Domaining Through Improved Orebody Knowledge: A Case Study from the Sotiel Cu-Pb-Zn Mine, Spain.

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Biography

Roseanna has been working as a geologist for 13 years, working in sediment-hosted Cu and VMS Cu-Au mines. During her time at DeGrussa with Sandfire Resources, she developed a passion for geometallurgy and is now enjoying working with the complexity of Sandfire's VMS Cu-Pb-Zn deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt.
Jamie Oppelaar
Senior Geology Consultant
Mining Plus

Q&A + Discussion

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Biography

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