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Geology Advisors

Your Mineral Resource is your company’s most valuable asset.  Our team will ensure your resource will stand up to expert scrutiny and provide confidence to investors.

  • Geology
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  • Mineral Resource Estimates
  • Technical reviews and audits
  • Technical Reports according to a range of reporting codes

Geology Advisory Services

Our experienced team of Competent and Qualified Persons can produce high quality resource estimates and advice across most commodities, mineralisation styles and regions.

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Capabilities

Building on sound, detailed geological interpretation and orebody modelling Snowden’s global team of geologists are experienced in commodities from diamonds through base and precious metals to industrial minerals.  We cover all major reporting codes including JORC, SAMREC and CIM.  We pride ourselves on our ability to add value to your project through quantified confidence in results.


Services

Applying industry best practice techniques, our services cover exploration review and management, grade control analysis and optimisation, resource evaluation and estimation, advanced geostatistics, auditing and review and risk analysis studies.

Geology Advisory Specialists

Regional Manager - Africa

Bill McKechnie

Principal Consultant

Oscar Rondon

Product Manager (Supervisor and Training)

Anthony Cook

Principal Consultant

Jan Graham

Regional Manager - Africa

Bill McKechnie

Bill McKechnie

Regional Manager – Africa

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Bill is a geologist with 35 years’ experience in diamond exploration and mining, including 32 years with Anglo American and De Beers and eight years as head of De Beers global exploration activities. Bill was directly involved in the discovery and development of four new diamond mines in southern Africa and participated in a number of kimberlite resource sampling and evaluation projects and mine feasibility studies in Africa, North and South America, Europe and Australia.

Bill served as a director of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited from 2002 to 2006 and as Chairman and/or director of a number of other De Beers Group and associate companies during his career. Since retiring from De Beers in 2006, Bill pursued personal interests before commencing private diamond industry consulting work in early 2009. Bill joined Snowden in September 2009 and since then has directed a number of independent technical reviews and Competent Persons’ Reports for a number of diamond and other commodity projects.


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Principal Consultant

Oscar Rondon

Oscar Rondon

Principal Geostatistician

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Oscar is a skilled geostatistician with over 18 years of experience in the application of specialised geostatistical techniques in the field of mineral resource evaluation.


Publications:

  • Machine Learning – Limiting Bias and Validating for Value (2019)
  • Landscape Evolution and Geochemical Dispersion of the DeGrussa Cu-Au Deposit, Western Australia (2018)
  • Resource Model Dilution and Ore Loss: A change of suppport approach(2017)
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  • Application of Localised Multivariate Uniform Conditioning in an Iron Ore Deposit (2015)
  • On Localising Uniform Conditioning Estimates (2014)
  • A Practitioners guide to recoverable resource estimation using localised uniform conditioning (2014)
  • Assessing uncertainty in recovery functions: A practical approach (2012)
  • Using Quantile Regression in Cloud transform simulation (2011)

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Product Manager (Supervisor and Training)

Anthony Cook

Anthony Cook

Product Manager (Supervisor and Training)

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Anthony is a geologist with a strong technical background in resource estimation and mine operations (open pit and underground), developed since 2010. His experience spans nine geographically and geologically separate precious metal deposits and several mineralisation styles, including alluvial, supergene oxide and in-situ hard rock. While working with Gold Fields Ltd, Anthony was strongly involved with corporate technical innovation and business improvement projects including mine to mill reconciliation and optimisation. His experiences, which range from international secondment to private conference with industry leaders, has given Anthony a broad exposure to the mining industry.


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Principal Consultant

Jan Graham

Jan Graham

Principal Consultant

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Jan is a diligent and proficient Resource Geologist with 14 years’ experience working in the mining industry and has excellent technical skills. Through her work as a consultant at Mining Plus, Snowden Group, Right Solutions and Datamine, Jan has gained experience in a variety of commodities and deposits, using different mining software (Datamine, Supervisor, and Vulcan). Jan has ability to work both
independently and as part of a team. Jan has experience in training (internal and external), mining software, designing grade control
systems, geological modelling, macro writing, technical report writing, auditing, technical reviews and resource estimation including advanced estimation techniques. Jan has written technical reports to JORC 2012 and NI 43-101 standard.

Jan manages her time well, communicates clearly and has experience of working to deadlines. Jan considers her key strengths to be in communication, resource geology, computer software skills, and training/mentoring.


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