Geologist with extensive experience in mineral exploration since 1977, primarily in gold and base metals (Australia, PNG, Philippines, Fiji, Vietnam, Mongolia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mali, Peru), but also coal (NSW, Queensland), tin (Tasmania, Queensland, NSW), tungsten (Vietnam, NSW, Uzbekistan), lithium brines (Argentina) and oil shale (Sweden, Estonia).Expertise in exploration program management ranging from project assessment & planning, reconnaissance exploration through to supervision of resource evaluation drilling programs, resource estimations, Independent Geological Reports and valuations. Competent Person under JORC Code 2012, for a variety of commodities, and a Specialist under the VALMIN Code 2015.