Hunter Region Branch JORC Seminar

Georgina is a Chartered Professional Geologist with a BSc (Hon) in Geology and Chemistry with over 19 of experience in the mining sector, primarily with Anglo American across multiple commodities, specialising in Operational Geology and Resource Modelling. She has been a member of JORC since 2024.

Cheryl has over 27 years of experience working in the coal mining industry in various roles across the Sydney Basin in NSW. She has worked on both open cut and underground deposits in the Collie Basin, Galilee Basin, Bowen Basin and Gloucester Basin completing both geological modelling, mine design and optimisation.

Cheryl has travelled internationally to South America to complete JORC Resource and Reserve Audits in a complex multi seam deposit. She has extensive Minex experience in geological modelling of complex deposits and has been responsible for resource risk assessment, exploration planning and justification, JORC Resource reporting, short-term coal quality scheduling and incorporation of in-pit structural mapping into geological models in an operational mine.

Cheryl has developed extensive experience in interpreting complex coal-bearing deposits and generating 3D models which enhances her ability to complete detailed audits. She has strength in data management and analysis (coal quality information) for resource evaluation. She has also developed exceptional client and stakeholders skills and her mature approach engages a diverse range of clients.

These skills have seen her achieve operational values and business objectives.

Doug Sillar is an Executive level Consultant with over 20 years work history in the mining Industry. His outstanding Strategic skills in the evaluation of mining projects and operations has resulted in him being sought out by clients to both challenge and enhance their thinking. He leads projects both as Project Manager and Project Director along with mentoring and guiding RPM’s emerging talent and senior mining engineers. His work has taken him across the world to undertake and review projects including, Australia, Canada, South America, Laos, India, Mongolia, Indonesia and other mining jurisdictions.

Supplementing these capabilities are core mining engineering disciplines including expertise in a wide range of areas such as life of mine planning, optimisation of mining operations, mining options studies, fleet estimation and design and scheduling. He remains a proficient user in a number of mine planning software packages including MineScape, Minex, Talpac and the RPM consulting tools suite of software which includes mine scheduling, fleet selection and economic model modules.

He has strong project financial evaluation skills and the ability to develop project financial models including capital and operating costs, discounted cash flows and project valuations. Doug has achieved a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from Kaplan which compliments his strong technical skillset. Doug has been a Competent Person since 2010 and has worked on a range of Reserves projects both within Australia and internationally and has also prepared Competent Person’s reporting for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Darren has a BE in Minerals Processing from the University of Queensland and a BSc. Darren has worked essentially entirely in the coal industry for over 33 years.

He was employed at 6 different minesites across both QLD and NSW, by an engineering company and by equipment suppliers before forming a consultancy specializing in coal processing.

Darren has completed over 40 due diligence studies and contributed to a number of JORC reserves reports.