Mike has over 35 years mining industry experience in roles that have varied from mine operations to regional exploration and mineral resource estimation. He has worked on projects throughout Australia, Africa and North America and has experience with many commodities across varied geological environments.

Mike has worked on projects for nickel (sulphide and laterite), many types of gold systems, copper, iron ore (hematite and magnetite), uranium, tin, polymetallic VMS deposits, and numerous specialty metals. He is very interested in geological data gathering and interpretation, and in mineral resource estimates that are practical, robust and auditable.

Mike has sound technical expertise in resource estimation and grade control systems for both open cut and underground mines, and has significant management experience at operating mines. He is an expert user of Datamine and Isatis software, and has a solid base of geostatistical knowledge gained via his MSc in Geostatistics from the highly-regarded Centre for Computational Geostatistics at the University of Alberta in Canada.