Craig is a geologist with thirty years’ experience in the mining industry. During his career spent in mineral exploration, underground coal mining and resource geology, he has worked on exploration tenements and operating mines located across four continents. He joined BHP in 2019, where he currently holds the position of Principal Resource Modelling at BMA Planning Technical and Environment, based in Brisbane. In addition to fulfilling the role of resource Competent Person for Caval Ridge coal mine, Craig is working towards the application of geological uncertainty to optimise drilling programs and de-risk mine plans. A self-taught Python coder, he has dabbled in geostatistics long enough to finally take the plunge and start a Graduate Certificate in Geostatistics and Spatial Modelling at Charles Sturt University. He also holds an M.Sc. in Geology and a Graduate Certificate in Mining Engineering.

lnur has worked in these roles: Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological software development supervisor, Mathematician (Software algorithms), Analyst in Image Search Ilnur 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.

Richard Hague’s career has focused upon applied economic geology - mineral exploration; mining and resource geology; project development and evaluation; and due diligence assessment in several commodities and deposit types, including coal, bauxite, epithermal and greenstone/lode gold deposits, and porphyry copper-gold deposits. Richard is currently based in Indonesia as a Specialist Resource Evaluation Geologist for Vale Base Metals Limited, seconded to their joint venture company, PT Sumbawa Timur Mining, and is responsible for the resource geology and estimation aspects for the prefeasibility study evaluation of the 3Bt Onto copper-gold deposit – a hybrid porphyry/high sulfidation deposit – located on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia.