Ian Blakley, P.Geo., EurGeol, Principal Geologist, is Vice President and General Manager, RPA UK Ltd., and is based in London. He is a Principal Geologist with over 30 years’ experience in mining geology and exploration. He has a background ranging from grassroots through to mine exploration including planning and supervision of drill programs, mineral resource and mineral reserve estimation, and the management of geological exploration and production teams. Ian has extensive mineral resource and reserve experience including long-term strategic resource accounting and mine planning, and has been involved in Life of Mine Plan analysis, property evaluations, and related cash flow projections. He has worked on nickel, gold, silver, copper, and uranium projects in a wide range of geological environments and regions.

Sean Horan, P.Geo., Technical Director of Resource Estimation, Principal Geologist/ Geostatistician has over ten years of mining industry experience including mining and consulting experience worldwide. His consulting experience includes Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve audits, due diligence, and modelling for projects ranging from exploration to production stages. In addition, his work has covered exploration target evaluation, database and data administration, grade control, resource modelling, estimation, simulation, and geostatistical studies.  Mr. Horan has experience using various commercial and open source mining software packages, principally Datamine Studio 3, Leapfrog, and Snowden Supervisor. Mr. Horan develops utilities in Visual Basic and Python, and is well versed in a number of scripting languages.

Mark Mathisen, CPG, Principal Geologist, has over 25 years of experience in the exploration and mining industries in the North and South America, Africa, and Mongolia.  His uranium and gold project experience includes resource estimates, property evaluations, project development, and the design, development, and implementation of geophysical exploration programs.   He is experienced in using RockWorks, Surfer, Grapher, VULCAN, X10-Geo, and Leapfrog data modeling software, SQL, DHLogger and Access database software, and Mount Sopris MGXII and Matrix geophysical data acquisition software.  

Philip Geusebroek, P.Geo., is a Senior Geologist  with 12 years of experience in the mining industry.  Mr. Geusebroek has extensive experience in geological and block modelling (nearest neighbour, inverse distance and ordinary kriging).  His experience includes Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimation, geostatistical analysis, technical reporting, and geological data compilation and management.  Philip Geusebroek is an advanced user of Vulcan and Datamine resource modelling software.  He also uses Sage, AutoCAD, AcQuire, MS Access, SQLite, Python, AWK, CSH, QGIS, ArcGIS, and LATEX.   

José Texidor Carlsson, P.Geo., is a Senior Geologist with more than ten years of exploration and mining experience in Canada, Chile, Mexico and China, for gold, base metals and uranium deposits. Prior to his work as an independent consultant, Mr. Texidor Carlsson held progressively senior positions with junior mining companies.  José’s exploration experience includes project management, surface mapping, surface drilling and underground exploration. He is proficient with multiple geophysical techniques, geochemical methods, and various GIS platforms.  He has a strong background in collecting and processing data, and had a previous career in software engineering.  He has extensive experience in resource estimation and is an experienced user of Surpac, GEMS, MapInfo/Discover, ArcGIS and Global Mapper.

Dorota El Rassi, P.Eng., is a Senior Geological Engineer at RPA.  Ms. El Rassi has over 18 years’ experience in exploration, resource estimation and consulting.  As a Senior Resource Engineer Ms. El Rassi has experience which includes preparation of geological and ore deposit 3D models, analysis of the geostatistics and variography of deposits, resource audits and preparation of National Instrument 43-101 technical reports.  She has been involved in a variety of commodities comprising gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, PGE and industrial mineral deposits in North America, South America, Asia and Africa.

Clare Kelly, CGeol FGS, is a senior geologist with 12 years’ experience in the mining industry.  Ms. Kelly’s areas of expertise include geological modelling, exploration best practice, and international codes for reporting of Mineral Resources.  Ms. Kelly spent eight years as a resource consultant and senior geologist with Micromine in the United Kingdom and Mongolia where she provided technical support and delivered training courses to Micromine users.  Prior to joining Micromine, Clare Kelly was a project geologist for junior exploration companies in Australia.  Ms. Kelly’s consulting experience includes exploration planning, resource estimation, and preparation of JORC and NI 43-101 Technical Reports.  Her commodities experience includes coal, iron ore, gold, copper, molybdenum, and manganese.

John Makin is a Senior Geologist with over seven years’ experience in geological modelling, resource and reserve estimation and the design and implementation of grade control sampling programs in both open pit and underground operations.  He started his career with Mandalay Resources as a Mine Geologist in Australia and advanced to Resource Manager for the Bjorkdal mine in Sweden where he directed annual resource and reserve updates and managed a team to deliver reconcilable models for long term planning and short-term mine design, in both underground and open pit context.

Mr. Makin is an advanced user of Surpac, an experienced user of Datamine, and has also used Leapfrog resource modelling software.  He is an experienced user of Whittle open pit optimization software, and has a strong understanding of relational databases including MS Access.  John Makin is a proficient speaker of Portuguese and understands French and Swedish.