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crirsco members

JORC (Australasia)
CIM (Canada)
IMEC (Chile)
PERC (Europe)
SAMCODES (South Africa)
SME (United States of America)
   

REPRESENTATIVES OF CRIRSCO MEMBERS

Chairperson
   


Deborah McCombe

CIM, Canada
chairperson@crirsco.com
   
First Deputy Chair Second Deputy Chair

Edmundo Tulcanaza

IMEC, Chile
edmundo.tulcanaza@crirsco.com

Ian Goddard
,
JORC, Australasia
ian.goddard@crirsco.com

 
Members
 

Peter Stoker
JORC, Australasia
peter.stoker@crirsco.com

Paul Bankes
CIM, Canada
paul.bankes@crirsco.com

Hernan Soza G
IMEC, Chile
hernan.soza@crirsco.com

Stephen Henley
PERC, Europe
stephen.henley@crirsco.com

Grigoriy Malukhin
PERC, Europe
grigoriy.malaknin@crirsco.com

Paul Gribble
PERC, Europe
paul.gribble@crirsco.com

Ferdi Camisani
SAMREC, South Africa
ferdi.camisani@crirsco.com

Roger Dixon
SAMREC, South Africa
roger.dixon@crirsco.com

Harry Parker
SME, USA

harry.parker@crirsco.com

Ian Douglas
SME, USA

ian.douglas@crirsco.com

 

REPRESENTATIVES’ ABBREVIATED RESUMES

 
  Deborah McCombe, P. Geo. (CIM, Canada)

Executive Vice President and Principal Geologist
Roscoe Postle Associates Inc.

Suite 501—55 University Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario

Deborah McCombe is a Professional Geoscientist with 30 years of domestic and international mineral exploration and mine development project experience. Ms. McCombe has focused on due diligence reviews, exploration projects, reserve estimates, feasibility studies and valuations in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Roscoe Postle Associates, Ms. McCombe was Chief Mining Consultant for the Ontario Securities Commission. She was involved in the development and implementation of NI43-101 Canadian Disclosure Standards for Mineral Projects.

Deborah is actively involved in industry associations as Chair of Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO) – (CIM Canada); President of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (2010-2011); a Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (1999-2011) and Chair of the PDAC International Affairs Committee; past Chair of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum; a CIM Distinguished Lecturer on National Instrument 43-101 and a member of the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions.

 
 

Edmundo Tulcanaza (IMEC, Chile)

Edmundo is a Mining Engineer with extensive experience in a variety of minerals and alternate fuels evaluation projects. After graduation from the Universidad de Chile (1964), he studied Geostatistics and Minerals Evaluation at the School of Mines of Paris. His present position is Principal Consultant – Corporate Vice Presidency of Development for Codelco where he has held different roles since 1994. Before CODELCO, he worked for 14 years in the USA (Cities Service and Davy International) and 3 years in Peru as consultant to the main mine companies (Centromin-Peru, Minero-Peru, Minas Buenaventura).

Edmundo is the current President of the Mineral Resources Committee of the Institution of Mining Engineers of Chile which is responsible, under the sponsorship of the Chilean Ministry of Mines, for establishing a regulatory Code for Mineral Resources to be used by the capital market industries in Chile. He is a Member of CRIRSCO (“Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards”), the international reference for Mineral Resources and Reserves reporting. He has authored a number of publications on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve evaluation and addressed several professional groups.

 
 

Ian Goddard (JORC, Australasia)

Ian graduated from The University of Queensland with a first class degree in Mining Engineering and an Economics degree. He also has a Master of Science with Distinction from the University of London (RSM). Currently he is Chairman of India Gold Limited and a Director of Petromin Holdings (PNG) Limited.

Most of Ian's career has been with MIM Holdings Limited, where his last position was Managing Director of the listed subsidiary Highlands Gold Limited for nine years. Since that time, he has filled board roles in a variety of organisations and provided consultancy services to companies, mainly in the mining sector. He has wide experience in joint ventures, raising capital and the management of minerals companies.

In 2002 and 2003, he was elected President of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the society for professionals in the minerals industry. Altogether, he was on the Council and Board of The AusIMM for 14 years. He is an Honorary Fellow of that Institute, a Chartered Professional and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of JORC.

 
 

Peter T Stoker (JORC, Australasia)

Peter is a geologist with over 30 years experience in mine geology, mineral resource and ore reserve estimation, feasibility studies, project evaluation and mineral exploration. Prior to joining AMC Consultants Pty Ltd in April 2003 he ran his own business as an independent consultant. From 1992 to 1996 he was a General Manager in MIM Exploration with responsibility for technical services and Mineral Resource and Ore Reserves reporting for the MIM Holdings group of companies. Formerly Chief Geologist at Mount Isa Mines Limited he was also director of a junior exploration and mineral treatment technology company.

Peter is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Chartered Professional - Geology. He is past Chair of the AusIMM’s Geoscience Taskforce and a past Councillor, branch chairman and secretary. He is the current Chairman of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee and was Secretary from late 1999 to 2005. He was a member of the Steering Committee and a contributor for Monograph 23 “Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves Estimation – The AusIMM Guide to Good Practice” and has authored or co-authored a number of papers on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve estimation, classification, exploration research and practice.

 
  Paul Bankes (CIM, Canada)

Paul graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Geology and has over 30 years of domestic and international experience in project development, mine operations, geostatistics, mine design and business development.   Paul is currently Director Reserve Evaluations for Teck Resources Limited where he has developed and implemented a program of oversight and verification of reserve and resource estimates across Teck’s business units.  Paul leads a technical group which prepares and audits reserve and resource estimates on mines, acquisitions, future development projects and provides technical assistance and training to mine staff.  He prepares the company’s annual resource and reserve disclosure and reports to the Reserve Committee of the Board of Directors.

Paul is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and a licensed professional geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.  In 2002 and 2003, he served on the Best Practice Committee which prepared CIM Best Practice Guidelines for the Estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves.  Paul is currently chairperson of the CIM “Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions”. 

   
 

Hernan Soza G (IMEC, Chile)

Hernan graduated as a geologist from Universidad de Chile in 1968 and has over 40 years of experience in domestic and international mineral exploration, mine geology, mineral resource estimation, feasibility studies, project evaluation and mine development projects.

His extensive career in the industry has included working for a number of different companies on a range of world class mineral deposits including Codelco’s El Teniente copper deposit as resident geologist, Saint Joe´s Minerals El Indio Gold Epithermal deposit as project geologist, Exxon Minerals El Soldado volcanogenic copper deposit as project geologist and Anaconda Minerals Los Pelambres porphyry copper deposit as project geologist and Project Manager.  In the position of Exploration Manager and District Manager for South America with Placer Dome, he investigated and assessed mineral properties, managed exploration programs for precious metals and conducted JV negotiations in several South American countries including Brasil, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, Surinam and Argentina. 

He is a member of the Colegio de Geólogos de Chile and the Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas de Chile.

Hernan is currently Technical Manager and associate member of South American Management S.A. a consulting group in exploration, deposit modelling, estimation and reporting of Mineral Resources and project valuation.

He is currently Vice President of the Comisión Minera which is a legal entity created by law to administer a Competent Persons Register in Chile.

 
 

Stephen Henley (PERC, Europe)

Steve graduated with a first-class degree in geology from Nottingham University in 1967, and a PhD in 1970 for exploration studies in south-west England. His career includes 10 years in both public sector (Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources 1970-72, British Geological Survey 1973-1979, and CSIRO, Australia 1995-6) and 28 years in the private sector. He was a founder in 1981 and principal architect of the Datamine mining software system. Since 1993 he has worked as an independent consultant.

Steve has been involved with exploration and mining projects worldwide, but in recent years has concentrated mainly on the former Soviet Union, and currently serves as geological adviser to the Board of Directors of Russia's second largest gold producer, Peter Hambro Mining plc.

He is a Fellow and Aberconway medallist of the Geological Society of London, a Fellow of the IMMM, a Chartered Engineer, past councillor of the former IMM, a charter member and chairman of the Awards Committee of IAMG. Since 2006 he has served in succession as secretary, chairman, and vice-chairman of PERC, and secretary/convenor of the CRIRSCO-GKZ Working Group tasked with defining an alignment of the Russian system with the CRIRSCO template. He has published widely on issues relating to the estimation and reporting of resources and reserves, and was joint author of one of the first books on geostatistics to be published in Russia.

 
 

Grigoriy Malukhin (PERC, Europe)

Grigoriy graduated with distinction from Moscow State Geological Prospecting University (MSGPU) as a Mining Engineer in 1996.  He has a Candidate of Technical Sciences (Geotechnology) from MSGPU (1999).  He began his career as a Research Assistant in 1993 and by 2000 became a Senior Research Engineer in the field of research and development of new technologies for improved recovery of valuable metals from ores and new technologies such as borehole mining. He spent four years working in the R&D Department of the Catalytica Energy Systems Company in USA carrying out analytical work.

Currently he is the Head of the Methodology and Development Department of the State Commission on Mineral Reserves (GKZ) and from 2004 he has also been a Head of the Science and Research Department of the Geocenter of Mineral Resources, a consulting body attached to the GKZ.  In these positions his work has included the development of guidelines and specifications for different kinds of normative/methodological and other kinds of regulatory and statutory documents aimed at improving the understanding and use of mineral reserves and resources, including the preparation of instructions for assessment and valuation of ore bodies to be used in the State Auditing process. Recently he became a member of the Central Commission on Development of Hard Mineral Reserves and Resources of Russia.

Grigoriy is involved in all communications and collaboration between the GKZ and professional bodies outside Russia, such as the UNECE (Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Harmonization of Fossil Energy and Mineral Resources Terminology), CRIRSCO, Society of Petroleum Engineers, European Federation of Geologists, consulting companies and others.

 
 

Paul Gribble (PERC, Europe)

Paul graduated in Geology from the University of London (University College) in 1977, and has worked for more than 30 years in the international mining industry in operational mining, exploration and consulting including time based in the UK, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Ireland. Since 2000 he has worked within the mining consulting industry and is currently Geology Manager for TetraTech Wardrop's UK office involved with due diligence, resource modelling, estimation and reporting of Mineral Resources.

Paul has been involved in mining and exploration projects worldwide, with a focus on Africa. During his career he has accumulated knowledge of resource estimation and the reporting process both within the CRIRSCO and the Russian system, and including working with Rio Tinto on their internal reporting practices and Annual disclosure.

He is a Fellow of the IMMM, a Chartered Engineer, and since 2007 has served as secretary of PERC.

 

Dr F A Camisani-Calzolari (SAMREC, South Africa)

Ferdi is a consultant to the mining industry and a geostatistician with degrees from the State University of Milan and the École National Supérieure Des Mines de Paris in Fontainebleau. His extensive career in the industry has included working for De Beers on diamond exploration and mining projects (1967-73), Anglo American’s Gold Division (1973-78) and the Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa (1978-87). From 1987 to 2001 he was Valuation Manager of Anglovaal Mining (AVMIN). He retired in 2001, but retained for a few years the capacity of Competent Person on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves for that Group. Currently is also serving as Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.

He was chairman of the Working Group that compiled the SAMREC Code until 2004. In 2000 and 2001 he was a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Committee responsible for updating Section 12 – Mining Companies Listing Rules and Continuous Obligations. From 2000 he has been a member of the Independent Technical Readers’ Panel of SAMREC for the JSE. He is a Member of the CRIRSCO Board and a member of the Bureau of the UNECE Ad-Hoc Group of Experts on Harmonisation of Fossil Energy and Mineral Resources Terminology (AHGE) in Geneva representing CRIRSCO. From 1999, he has been a Member of the International Council of ‘Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry’ (APCOM) representing the SAIMM.

He is the recipient of the 2001 Honours Award from the Council of the Geological Society of South Africa and the Honorary Life Fellowship from the Council of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM, 2005). In November 2004 the Council of the University of Pretoria conferred on him the title of Extraordinary Professor for the teaching of geostatistics. He has published 25 papers and 2 books.

 
  Roger Dixon (SAMREC, South Africa)

Roger is a graduate in Mining Engineering from the Royal School of Mines, London. He has over 38 years experience in deep level gold mine management, project development, mine valuation, engineering studies and safety and health. Based in South Africa he has worked for Anglo American, Anglovaal and Metorex. He is currently a corporate consultant and director with SRK Consulting.

Roger was both a founder member and chairperson of the Gold and Platinum committee in the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (SIMRAC) system for eight years. He participated, on behalf of the Chamber of Mines, in the compilation of the Mine Health and Safety Act in 1996. He was a founder member and chairperson of the South African Mineral Resource Committee (SAMREC) and was instrumental in the development of the SAMREC Code which was first published in March 2000.

He is currently the Chairperson of the SAMREC/SAMVAL Committee (SSC) which is responsible for the SAMREC Code which was revised and re-published in 2007 and the South African Mineral Valuation Code (SAMVAL) which was first published in 2008.

He is a past president and Honourable Life Fellow of  the SAIMM and is a Professional Engineer (Pr Eng) registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).

 
 

Harry Parker (SME, USA)

Harry has multiple degrees from Stanford and Harvard University and has had a long and successful career in mine geology and geostatistics. He is currently Technical Director of AMEC and is responsible for resource modelling, auditing and the provision of Competent Persons’ reports. The breadth of Harry’s activities is illustrated by his extensive range of publications and by his membership of eleven professional organizations, both in the USA and overseas. He is a Registered Geologist in the States of California and Arizona, a Registered Member of the SME and a Fellow or Member of the AusIMM, Society of Economic Geologists, IMMM, AIG, GSA, IAMG, CIM and ФВК.

Harry brings an international perspective to the requirements for resource and reserve reporting under various regulatory regimes and is well versed in the similarities – and differences – of these requirements. As a Competent Person and independent auditor Harry provides CRIRSCO with an extensive knowledge of estimation and reporting issues.

   
 

Ian H Douglas (SME, USA)

Ian has degrees in geology and ore deposits from UCLA and Stanford University.  He has over 30 years experience in geology and mining. His career has spanned grassroots exploration, development, operations, consulting, and corporate governance. He is currently with Newmont Mining Corporation as Group Executive of Reserves and Geostatistics.  Prior to Newmont, he has worked for Utah International, USGS, Noranda Exploration, Meridian Gold, FMC, Independence Mining, and MRDI consulting.

Ian has helped develop Newmont’s Reserve and Resource governance model and has been responsible for Newmont’s annual Resource and Reserve disclosures since 2001.  He is a current and active member of SME, participating in the registered membership and reserve committees.  He helped update the 2007 SME Guidelines, focusing his efforts on updated definitions of Resources and Reserves. 

Ian has a family mining legacy as a 5th consecutive generation mining geoscientist that started with his great-great grandfather James Douglas’s discovery of the Copper Queen mine in Bisbee Arizona.

 

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