Department Training

Dr Simon Dominy

Dr Simon Dominy our Executive Consultant and Group Lead of Geometallurgy, is a seasoned mining geologist-engineer with more than 25 years of experience spanning mine operations, consulting, and academia. His expertise covers economic geology, geometallurgy, mine value chain sampling, resource…

Clementine Clark

Clementine is a skilled Resource Geologist proficient in data analysis, geological modeling, and resource estimation. She specializes in various software tools such as Supervisor, Datamine, and Leapfrog for comprehensive analysis and modeling. With experience spanning across Africa and the Americas,…

Senzeni Mandava Matondi

Senzeni Mandava Matondi is a Resource Geologist with over 22 years of practical experience in the fields of Resource Estimation and Evaluation, Exploration, Mining, Planning Geology, and Consulting. She holds an MSc in Engineering, specialising in Mineral Resource Evaluation and…

Rowdy Bristol

Rowdy is a Principal Consultant with our Geology Division. He has deep familiarity with linear and non-linear resource estimation techniques, such as ordinary kriging, indicator kriging, inverse distance, conditional simulation, uniform and local uniform conditioning.  Rowdy, has more than 30…

Dr Oscar Rondon

Oscar Rondon, Principal Geostatistian, Snowden Optiro

Dr Oscar Rondon, is a Principal Geostatistician with the Supervisor team. Oscar is a skilled geostatistician and researcher with more than 19 years of combined experience in the Oil & Gas and Mining & Metals industries with a proven track…

Susan Havlin

Susan Havlin, Principal Consultant, Geology Advisory, Snowden Optiro

Susan Havlin is Managing Consultant – Geology, leading Snowden Optiro’s team of Australia based geologists. Susan has more than 22 years of extensive expertise in the fields of exploration, mine, and resource geology. Throughout her career, she has gathered invaluable…

Matt Walker

Matt Walker, Principal Consultant with Snowden Optiro’s Geology Advisory, is a geologist with more than 14 years of experience through the mine cycle chain, covering production, resource definition and resource estimation across a variety of projects, commodities, and continents. Matt…

Mark Drabble

Mark Drabble is a geologist with more than 32 years’ experience in due diligence studies, Mineral Resource audits, underground and open pit production, resource development, resource estimation, consulting and geological management at operational and corporate levels. Mark has extensive experience…

Kahan Cervoj

Kahan Cervoj, Snowden Optiro’s Executive Consultant in Geology Advisory, has worked as an exploration, resource development, mine and resource geologist since 1990, with a focus on doing the fundamentals and gaining a working understanding of a deposit’s geology. He has…