Mike Venter Email & Phone Number

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area

I provide technical lead to AMG Lithium’s Resource team. The position involves the identification and due diligence of near term and developing lithium projects that will support AMG Lithium’s vertically integrated lithium strategy. Support is also given to AMG Lithium’s in house exploration team in Brazil, where brownfields as well as greenfields projects.

Minas Gerais, Brazil

Completing Due Diligence and developing High Purity Alumina (HPA) Projects in Brazil

Global

• I provided niche geological and strategic advisory consulting services to the minerals industry. Although having significant experience in the Battery/critical/new tech metals sector (Li, graphite/Ta/Nb/Sn/W/REE), my.
• Graphite: Desktop Reviews, Exploration Program design and Management, Mine Grade Control, Due Diligence and Audit, JORC 2012 MRE on mining operations and projects in Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Madagascar.
• Li/Ta/Nb/Rb/Sn/Cs/W: VP Exploration, Desktop Reviews, Exploration Program Design and Management, Due Diligence and Audit, JORC 2012 MRE on mining operations and projects in Brazil, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
• REE: Desktop Reviews, Due Diligence, financial evaluation, Mineral Inventory estimations on projects in Kyrgyzstan, Malawi and Australia
• Helium: Desktop review of He potential in Tanzania and East Africa
• Ni-Cu-PGM: Desktop review of the Tamarack Ni-Cu Deposit, Minnesota, USA,

Global

Manage and overview all aspects of AMG Mining's geological, resource estimation and exploration programs at its mines and projects:Brazil - Mibra Ta/Li/Nb/Sn/Feldspar MineSri Lanka - Bogala Graphite Mine and Rangala Graphite ProjectGermany - Kropfmuhl Graphite MineZimbabwe - Lynx Graphite Mine and advanced brownfields projectsMozambique - Ancuabe Graphite.

South Africa

CP/QP for uranium, REE and base metals. NI 43-101, AIM and ASX listing reports. Desktop studies, target generation and project management

Managed Tanzanian and Botswana Ni-Cu exploration projects, including target generation, geochemical and geophysical exploration programs, government and JV reporting.

Uranium and coal bed methane target generation in SADC. Mineral license applications, negotiations, exploration program design, historical data validation, JV negotiation and reporting.

Bushveld PGM project management, historical core relogging, Lesotho kimberlite drilling evaluation program, South African Mining Industry research surveys

Mining and Energy Industry Research. Responsible for researching, structuring and documentation of the global mining and exploration industry on a countrywide scale, as well as the African upstream energy industry.Compilation, editing and delivery of daily mining and energy newsletter to online subscribers

Management of diamond exploration programs in Botswana and Namibia, non diamond exploration reviews, target generation on SADC countries.

Gold Exploration, South Africa. Geochemical exploration utilizing stream sediment, soil, trenching and percussion drilling methods.· Base Metal Exploration, South Africa. Airborne geophysics utilised followed by surface mapping and diamond drilling programme.· Iron Ore Exploration, Zimbabwe. Regional exploration programme to locate source feed for proposed.

Welkom Area, South Africa

Underground structural and sedimentological mapping, mine planning,exploration drilling and ore reserve estimations.· Environmental management. Responsible for geohydrology over mine property.Member of Free State Water Management Team.

Bsc Honours, Geology And Geochemistry

BSc Geology in 1992 BSc Honours In Geology & Geochemistry in 1993

Matriculation Exemption