Resource Endowment: Geometallurgy, Portfolio Management and Exploration: Where do the Venn circles overlap?

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Resource Endowment: Geometallurgy, Portfolio Management and Exploration: Where do the Venn circles overlap?


1 CPD HourResource Endowment: Geometallurgy, Portfolio Management and Exploration: Where do the Venn circles overlap? is presented by John Vann as part of the Centre for Exploration Targeting lecture series for 2015.

The combination of lower commodity prices, higher costs, more difficult ores, increased sustainability pressures and slimmer margins has put systemic pressure on mining company margins and business models. Identifying and quantifying the full resource endowment is a pathway to understand the strategic dimensions of development for existing mineral districts as well as acquisitions and divestments. The requirement for integrated geosciences approaches in this work will be high. New types of data, including geometallurgical data, data fusion approaches and deposit modelling technologies will play significant roles. However, another primary task will be organisationally and philosophically connecting exploration geosciences to operational geosciences to seek and deliver on opportunities for delivery of maximum value from existing assets.

About the Speaker:

John is Group Head of Geosciences for Anglo American PLC, where his global brief covers geosciences across the value chain including mineral resources, geometallurgy, specialist geosciences (geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology etc.) and integrated geoscience (bringing these streams together). John is a geoscientist with over 25 years of experience across nearly all commodities for major mining houses and in consulting. He holds a BAppSc in Geology from RMIT and BSc(Hons) Geology from U New England), MSc in Geostatistics from U Leeds and a Master of Business and Technology from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW). John currently holds Adjunct academic positions at the Universities of WA, Adelaide and Queensland. He is a fellow of AIG, AusIMM, SEG and the Geological Society, as well as being a lifetime member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. He is based in Perth but his boss is in London and his team is across 18 hours of time zones.

The venue for this talk will be the Woolnough Lecture Theatre (1.07), Geography and Geology Building University of Western Australia.  Join the CET staff for refreshments following the talk.