Geology Advisors

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.

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.

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.