Masterclass: Robust Governance Processes to Provide Assurance on Reported Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Reserves
Join the South West WA Branch for their Masterclass: Robust Governance Processes to Provide Assurance on Reported Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Reserves.
About this event
Forming part of the official MetFest! Bunbury 2026 program, this mastclass will be a highly valuable and interesting session.
Attendees will be talked through how a three-layer framework of assurance controls provides a robust assurance system to support knowledge sharing, improve quality and confidence in outcomes, supporting good corporate governance for technical information.
This course outlines the importance of people, processes and systems in reducing exposure to exploration, resource, reserve and reconciliation disclosure risk, and improving the quality and confidence in data, interpretation, estimate generation, forecasting and reconciliation for both internal and external reporting and disclosure.
This MasterClass led by Professor Mark Noppé FAusIMM(CP) is designed for those involved in assuring that robust governance and systems are deployed to the reporting of exploration results, mineral resources and reserves.
Program:
8.30am - Registration & Networking
9.00am - MasterClass begins
11.00am - Morning Tea & Networking
11.30am - MasterClass resumes
1.00pm - MasterClass concludes
2.00pm - Other MetFest Activities commence. See MetFest! Bunbury program for registration
Speaker/s
Mark Noppe
Mark has been applying geoscience knowledge in the assessment of developing resource projects and operating mines since 1985. He provides technical advice, mine and project reviews, technical assurance reviews and advice, due diligence and audits, process improvement studies, as well as training and mentoring in all aspects of orebody knowledge, from exploration reporting, resource definition and reporting, mine geology, grade control and mine reconciliation through to inputs into reserving and feasibility studies.
Mark’s commodity experience includes base metals, bauxite, coal, diamonds, gold and nickel. Mark’s clients have included technical leads, management and Boards of resource project owners, as well as the investors, lenders and legal advisors to these projects. He is a recognised technical reviewer and auditor, providing advice on technical improvements and assurance to company management and investors on the resource and reserve performance of their projects.
He has been based in South Africa, Western Australia and Queensland, and consulted on a variety of projects and commodities in a range of international geological, mining and geographic settings.
Mark received the AusIMM Charles Marshall Award for Technical Excellence 2020.
Sponsors
Location
Mercure Sanctuary Golf Resort
Lot 100 Old Coast Road
Bunbury WA 6230
Thursday, 27 August 2026
8.30am – 1.00pm (UTC+08:00)
Date and Time
8.30am – 1.00pm (UTC+08:00)
Cost
AusIMM Member Student and NPN: $50
Non-Member: $200