James Ridley Email and Phone Number

Geologist with over 35 years of experience specialising in mineral resource evaluation, mining geology and near mine exploration across a wide variety of geological settings, deposit types and mineralisation styles for commodities including gold-silver, nickel-cobalt, iron ore, lead-zinc, copper, scandium, lithium and graphite. Has a strong background working collaboratively within small and large exploration, mining and consulting businesses and has a successful track record scoping and delivering resource evaluation studies and mine geology outputs meeting business specific needs.Key Strengths:- Management of exploration drilling, resource modelling projects and mine geology functions.- Exploration data validation, QAQC analysis and geological modelling.- Linear and non-linear geostatistics, resource estimation and uncertainty modelling.- Technical report preparation (JORC & NI 43-101).- Competent Person (JORC) for reporting gold-silver, nickel-cobalt, iron ore, lead-zinc and copper mineral resources.- Leading and mentoring teams of mine and resource geologists.- Exploration and resource evaluation in technical audits, due diligence and feasibility studies.- Strong interpersonal, organizational, technical and analytical skills.Career Highlights:- Entry and leadership (Senior) roles in mining geology and near mine exploration at open cut gold and iron ore operations in the USA and Western Australia (7 years).- Senior resource geologist with an international consulting firm contributing to numerous successful gold, iron ore and base metal projects in Australia and overseas (11 years).- Senior and Principal resource geologist roles with junior resources companies focused on the development of nickel laterite projects in Western Australia (7 years + 6 years).- Principal and superintendent resource geologist roles managing resource modelling for major iron ore mining company operating in Western Australia (3 years).- Owner and operator of private consulting business providing services in exploration data validation, QAQC data analysis, geological modelling, resource estimation and reporting (JORC 2012) on copper, lead-zinc, lithium and graphite projects in Australia and overseas on behalf of Australian clients.