Alina Arnold is the Head of Indices at Mysteel Global, China’s largest commodity market intelligence provider. Alina has over a decade of metals & mining experience mainly focussed on iron ore, spanning mining geology, geometallurgy and product quality. Having worked for mining companies in a number of technical roles on remote mine sites in Western Australia for almost 8 years, Alina then joined Mineral Value Services (S&P Global Platts) in the UK, leading a team of global analysts focussed on technical and market analysis as well as managing iron ore Value-in-Use models. Alina is passionate about the iron ore and steel industry and has travelled extensively to conduct primary research on supply and demand dynamics globally. She now leads Mysteel’s expanding index team focussed on supporting the global market in the development, adoption and use of Mysteel’s indices. Alina has a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Liverpool and a Master of Science in Mining Geology from The Camborne School of Mines, UK.

Mark Berry MAIG, Director and Principal Geologist, Derisk Geomining Consultants

John Carswell is an experienced mining geologist who has published widely on mining geology subjects including sampling and the use of underground reverse circulation drilling in complex nuggety gold mineralisation. He has successfully introduced RC grade control drilling at two underground gold mines.

Ivy joined CSA Global in 2015 as a Principal Consultant, and has advised on listings and other commercial transactions on the Australian, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canadian and UK stock exchanges. Ivy is a non-executive director for Battery Minerals listed on in the ASX, a director of Multicultural Futures a not-for-profit organisation supporting migrants and refugees in their first 5 years in Australia, and is a member of the VALMIN committee, and a past chair and committee member for the Perth branch of the AusIMM. Ivy is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ course.

I am a structural geologist/sedimentologist and the conceptual founder of Leapfrog software (2001). I have used Leapfrog to interpret and model more than 600 deposits of many commodities worldwide. I continue to research new methods of presenting, processing, and interpreting 3D geological data for the benefit of the mining and mineral exploration industries. I am keen to pass on my knowledge to mining industry personnel, so please come and talk to me.

Ron Reid has 20+ years experience in greenfields and brownfileds exploration, resource development, resource estimation, geological modelling, open cut and underground mining in Australia, Nicaragua, Namibia and Papua New Guinea. After completing a BSc(Hons) in geology at JCU he completed the RGC Graduate Trainee program working in various exploration and mining sites around Australia. After a period working in Nicaragua for a Perth based junior he undertook a number of contract positions in mining, exploration and petroleum within Australia and Papua New Guinea. Ron then worked as a GIS / Database geologist for a copper-gold junior and as a Senior Geologist working with uranium in Namibia before commencing with Harmony as a Resource Geologist in 2009. Ron has worked predominantly in copper and gold but has also worked in uranium, base metals, iron ore, and nickel. He was instrumental in the development of the current Wafi-Golpu structural geology model by recognising the thrust development and the tilted and folded stratigraphy. This has a direct impact on the structural geometry of the Golpu and Wafi deposits and important implications from a resource modelling and mining perspective. Ron is a high end user of Leapfrog Mining and Geo software and competent with Micromine, Surpac and Vulcan. He has considerable experience tying implicit 3D geological model output to both linear and non-linear resource estimation methods.

Dale is a mining / resource geologist with over 35 years in the industry. After working with major companies for most of his career he began independent consulting in 2011. Star sign is Sagittarius.

Rene is principal consultant with RSC. He holds a Master’s degree in Structural Geology and Tectonics. Rene is a Chartered Professional and a Fellow with the AusIMM, a Registered Professional Geologist with the AIG, and has published papers and provides training on sampling, QAQC, and resource estimation.