Dr. Dane Burkett works for Olympus within the Scientific Solutions Business Unit as the Applications and Marketing Manager for the Analytical Instruments Division (XRF/XRD instruments) and is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Dane’s role at Olympus is to develop XRF and XRD applications, especially within the natural resources sector from exploration through to material handling and mineral processing. Dane works with customers from a variety backgrounds including mineral exploration and mining, oil and gas exploration, coal mining, maintenance, research, medical and forensics.

Sophie works as a graduate chemist at Portable XRF Services. She holds an honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia. At Portable XRF services, she has worked with a range of field based spectroscopic instruments, specialising in the application of Raman spectroscopy in the resource industry and the benefits of combined analytical methods.

François R. Doucet, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., LSO, chimiste, CEO François R. Doucet obtained his doctorate and master degrees in analytical chemistry from Université de Montréal, he has 20 years of knowhow in LIBS. He has work for National Research Council Canada for 11 years before becoming the CEO and co-founder of ELEMISSION inc. since June 2014. He his currently the president of the North American Society for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NASLIBS). He also excels in atomic emission, laser ablation, spectroscopy, chemometrics, nuclear forensics and process chemistry. He has co-authored several active patents and peer-reviewed papers.

After completing his PhD in 1997, Martin joined CSIRO to study the Western Australian Ni laterite deposits, and later the Pilbara iron ore deposits. In 2017, Martin joined the John de Laeter Centre to investigate (U-Th)/He-dating of WA regolith and recently e-metal (Li,V) ore systems. Throughout his career, Martin has applied analytical techniques to characterise ore and trace element deportment, and gangue mineral distribution in these varied deposits. Martin has written/co-authored 9 book chapters, 19 journal and 39 conference publications. In his spare time Martin is a keen mineral collector and tries to maintain his juggling and mountain biking skills.

David is an experienced mining engineer with over 30 years of open pit mining experience in Australia and projects across the globe, including Sons of Gwalia, BHP, FMG and Mining Plus . He has extensive experience in mine planning techniques and best practices. David has always maintained a high level of technical support for project and operations groups, while also ensuring a culture of continuous improvement. Specifically David has 10 year experience in hard rock Lithium mining and has been competent person for several hard rock Lithium Projects Mt Cattlin, Mt Holland, Pilgangoora, Finniss

Mark has 27 years’ experience in fundamental research, practical industrial developments the educational promotion of a wide range of mineral chemistry, mineralogy and extractive metallurgical processes. He has held senior roles in developing metallurgical programs, implementing and managing programs largely for gold refractory ores and various projects on base metal, PGMs, manganese, rare earths, uranium extraction. He has worked in various international mining companies, institutions and consultancy firms including Bateman Engineering, BHP Billiton, Placer Dome Inc, Barrick Gold Corporation, and CSIRO Mark is a Senior Research Fellow within the John de Laeter Centre at Curtin University

Abdul Gorken is Global Technical Manager in the Industrial Minerals Division of ArrMaz since 2013. In this role he provides technical assistance to sales people to increase the market share of ArrMaz products globally. Prior to ArriMaz, he worked at Cytec Industries (now Solvay) for 26 years where, he managed new product developments in industrial minerals. Before Cytec, he held Senior Metallurgical Engineer positions at Tetra Technologies in Houston, Texas and Newmont Exploration in Danbury, CT. He received bachelor’s degree in mineral processing from Technical University of Istanbul and a master’s degree in minerals engineering from Columbia University in 1979.

Damian is a Consulting Engineer with extensive experience in the gold, copper, lead, zinc, uranium and iron ore industries with particular emphasis on gold. Experience has been gained in plant operations feasibility studies, detailed design, construction and commissioning, and all unit operations. He is an internationally recognised specialist in Mineral Processing having worked in north and South America, South East Asia, Africa and Europe. The last 28 years working as a Consultant Metallurgist for mining, banking and engineering companies has provided a broad range of experience. Damian is a Registered Expert Witness and has been engaged on many cases.