Allan Earl, is an Executive Consultant in the Mining Advisory division. Allan has more than 40 years’ mining experience in open pit and underground gold and base metals operating mines and consulting. More recently Allan has been involved in lithium feasibility studies in Australia and Europe.

Allan has specialised in the delivery of feasibility studies for open pit and underground mines,  reporting of Ore/Mineral Reserves for international reporting Codes, Independent Technical Reports, due diligence assessments and Ore Reserve audits. Allan’s is currently the Competent Person for the Kathleen Valley lithium project Ore Reserves and, until 2021, the Jadar lithium project in Serbia.

Allan’s range of experience includes financial analysis, technical audits and project evaluation, underground mine design, planning and production scheduling, Ore Reserve estimation (as a Competent Person and Qualified Person), and optimisation of underground orebodies using Snowden Optiro’s Evaluator software.