Dr. Kadri Dagdelen

Dr. Kadri Dagdelen is currently a professor of Mining Engineering at 
Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He has been a faculty 
member at CSM since 1992 where He was the Head of the Mining 
Department between 2008 and 2012. Dr. Dagdelen’s teaching and 
research interests include Geostatistical Resource and Reserve 
Estimation, Surface Mine Design, Mine Planning and Production 
Schedule Optimization and Operations Research Applications in 
Mining. He is the author of more than 50 research and technical 
publications in the mining industry. He is a QP in the area of Resource 
Estimation and Mining Engineering through Mining and Metallurgical 
Society of America (MMSA).

Dr. Dagdelen served as a board member of Randgold Resources, a
multi billion dollar gold mining company listed on NASDAQ with mining 
operations in west Africa and DRC between January 2010 and May 
2017. He has also served as a board member for Society of Mining, 
Metallurgy and Exploration, between 2000 and 2006 including a seat 
as an Executive Committee Member for its M&E Division. He has 
received the Distinguished Service Award from SME’s Minerals and 
Exploration (M&E) Division in 2006 and was selected as the 
Distinguished Member of the SME in 2013. He currently serves on the 
Boards of Canagold Inc in Canada and Lidya Mining in Turkey.
Prior to his academic career at Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Dagdelen 
worked for Homestake Mining Company between 1985 and 1992 in a 
number of different capacities including Manager of Technical 
Services.

Dr. Dagdelen received his Ph.D. (1985), M.Sc. (1979), and BSc. (1976) in 
Mining Engineering, from Colorado School of Mines and a Master of 
Engineering (Equivalent) (1981), Geostatistics, from L’ecole des Mines 
de Paris.