Mineral Resources Governance Specialist

Ivy Chen is a highly respected mineral resources governance specialist and the founder of GeoReg Mining and Compliance. Her work ensures alignment with the JORC Code, VALMIN Code, the Corporations Act, and ASX Listing Rules in Australia, as well as equivalent international frameworks.

With more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry, Ivy has completed and supervised mineral resource estimations across a wide range of commodities, including gold, nickel, manganese, iron ore, and lithium. She has also reviewed numerous base metal and industrial mineral resource estimates prepared under Australian and global reporting standards. Her leadership extends to managing both consulting and in-house resource estimation teams for major mining consultancies and operators.

Ivy is an active contributor to industry governance and policy. She serves on the VALMIN Committee, which administers Australia’s minerals valuation code, and is a member of the WA Government’s Mining and Petroleum Advisory Committee and the WA Investment Attraction Fund Governance Board. A former Director of the AusIMM, Ivy represented mining professionals nationally and internationally. From 2009 to 2015, she was the ASIC National Advisor for Geology and Mining, providing regulatory expertise on mineral reporting and disclosure.

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