Department Training

Ian Glacken

Ian Glacken is an Executive Consultant with Snowden Optiro’s Geology Advisory group. An experienced geologist with postgraduate qualifications in geostatistics, mining geology, and computing, Ian has more than 38 years of global mining industry experience. Ian began his career with…

Dr Gregory Zhang

Dr Gregory Zhang – Senior Consultant, Geology & Resource Estimation Dr Gregory (Greg) Zhang is a highly experienced geologist and resource estimation specialist with more than 14 years’ experience across mining, exploration, and academic research. He has contributed to over…

Ferrin Gersbach

Ferrin Gersbach is the Training & Marketing Manager at Snowden Optiro, a global mining advisory and professional training organisation. She has experience in marketing enablement, customer engagement, professional training coordination, and account management within technical consulting and mining technology environments.…

Andrew Grubb

Andrew is a mining engineer with more than 40 years of diversified experience in the West Australian and International mining industry, including 10 years as operating/technical superintendent, 10 years as operations/general manager and 15 months at managing director level. Areas…

Paul Blackney

Paul is a geologist with more than 37 years of technical and operational experience. He has worked as a consultant in resource geology for over 30 years. Paul’s skills include resource evaluation, technical audits and reviews, geostatistics, reconciliation, grade control,…