As a dynamic and highly experienced exploration geologist and Member of the Australian Institute of Geologists Simon's main passion, skillsets and experience are applied in mineral prospectivity mapping and analysis. This involves assessing geological real estate for its potential to host economic mineral deposits and orebodies, with the objective of positioning clients to make money. Other tenement asset value-adding services I provide to my clients are:

 

Mineralisation research toward discovery

• due diligent research and geological investigations of publicly available historical exploration and mining data

• the acquisition, compilation and management of geological, geospatial and cadastre GIS datasets

• geological metal detective work - finding mineralisation that boosts the inherent value of your ground holdings

 

Geoscientific evaluation

• project appraisals and asset valuations

• assessing ground for prospectivity and potential acquisition

• identifying, recommending and exploring mineral targets within existing tenement portfolios

• mineral target selection based on conceptual geological models and holistic integrated datasets

 

Marketing to buyers, investors and stakeholders

• preparing information memorandums and project summaries to help sell your project and maximise your profits

 

Reporting

• prospectivity analysis reports

• industry standard statutory annual mineralisation reports 

• competent person reports

• tenement asset valuations

• Independent Technical Assessment Reports (ITAR)

 

Visualisation imagery and drafting

• desktop mapping

• digital image creation and drafting such as location maps, exploration index maps, plans and cross sections

• creating enhanced geochemical, magnetics, gravity, radiometric raster imagery

• finding freely available satellite imagery and aerial photography

• creating topographic maps, 3D digital elevation models (DEM) and contour maps

• drafting technical plan maps and cross sections.

• creating clear, high impact digital imagery for reports, documents and ASX announcements

 

Management

• designing, organising and implementing exploration programs

• engaging and managing contractors and consultants

• obtaining quotes, preparing budgets,  allocating resources, arranging logistics

 

Tenement administration

• compliance with legislation, and native title 

• regulatory compliance with legislative Acts (Mining, Native Title, etc.) and mining department policies and guidelines, preparing Form 5’s, PoW,  statutory reporting, objections,  extensions of term, exemptions, licensing, permitting and approvals, mineral endorsements

• stakeholder liaison and consultation

• registered site searches, organising heritage surveys, dealing with native title issues, entering into negotiations and Native Title Regional Standard Heritage Agreements (RSHA) and

• permitting and approvals:

  • history of success obtaining Programmes of Work (PoW) activity approvals

  • proven track record of successful Mining Licence Applications with Mineralisation Reports and Supporting Statements

 

Economic Advisory

• project generation and acquisition 

• regulatory technical advice

• sovereign and technical risk evaluation, assessment and risk mitigation (de-risking) strategies

• integrated due diligent project audits for investors

• competent person reports 

• strategic planning and business advisory

• cost-benefit analysis

• practical recommendations to board and management

 

Data collection, database management and data analysis

• advising on and/or setup of information capture technology

• creating databases and managing collected data

• objective analysis of your data integration and system methodology: best practice setup and procedural optimisation

• creating logging, coding and attribute look up tables systems

• holistic dataset integration, interrogation and analysis using Geographic Information System (GIS) software. I use and recommend MapInfo Professional & Discover software

 

Boots on ground exploration field work

• geochemical soil, stream and rock chip sampling

• prospecting including points of interest (POI) pickups and mapping by GPS   

• drilling supervision and logging including best practice assaying - analytical method selection and advice

• geological field mapping

 

Processing and Mining 

•  metallurgical comminution and beneficiation advice and engaging leading specialist contractors

•  mineral speciation, exposure and liberation characterisation advice – is it viable to extract the mineral cost effectively?

 

Additional Skills

• portable handheld XRF gun accreditation

• workplace first aid

• advising on and implementing field OHS  

• search and rescue training

• bush survival skills

• advanced 4WD skills

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Target commodities

• Gold (orogenic, intrusion-hosted, epithermal, supergene, and hydrothermal lode/structural Archaean Gold)

• Nickel-Copper-Cobalt & PGE's (orthomagmatic/supergene/lateritic) 

• Base metals Copper, Zinc, Lead (VMS, SEDEX and hydrothermal)

• Uranium

• Graphite 

• Manganese

• Diamonds

• Aluminium (HPA)

• Tin, Tantalum, Lithium (LCT pegmatite, secondary placer deposits)

• REE's (carbonatite)

• Iron Ore (DSO hematite/goethite/limonite, magnetite)

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