Department Training

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…

Oscar Rondon

Oscar Rondon, Principal Geostatistian, Snowden Optiro

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 of…

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…

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…

Ian Glacken

Ian Glacken, Executive Consultant from Geology Advisory

Ian Glacken, is an Executive Consultant with our Geology Advisory services. He is a geologist with postgraduate qualifications in geostatistics, mining geology and computing who has more than 36 years of worldwide experience in the mining industry. Following 16 years…

Gregory Zhang

Dr Gregory Zhang is a geologist with more than 10 years’ experience in resource estimation, exploration and academic research in multiple commodities. His resource experience has included three-dimensional modelling of mineralisation systems, geostatistical analysis, resource estimation, and technical report writing.…

Diana Ross

Diana has worked in management roles in the mining industry’s Training sector for more than 19 years.  She was Snowden’s Training Manager for over 9 years and Optiro’s Training and Marketing Manager for more than 8 years. She was also…

Chris Jones

Chris has worked as a mining engineer in the mining industry since graduating in 2006. Following his initial training with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in Australia, Chris moved to Snowden Consulting, initially in Australia then in South Africa gaining international…