Aline Cote

Industrial Lead of Zinc and Lead, Glencore

Keynote presentation: The importance of resource estimation and its impact on corporate decisions

Aline has a bachelor degree in Science (Geology) from University of Quebec (1998), post graduate training in Geology at Laurentian University.(2000) and an MBA from University of Quebec (2008). She began her career as an exploration geologist for Noranda Inc,, progressing to becoming the first female Chief Geologist for Falconbridge, and became Head of Zinc Mining Technical Services for Glencore in 2014. Becoming the Industrial Lead, for Glencore’s Zinc & Lead department in 2019, is a testimony of her skills and resiliency.

One of her biggest achievement has been the development, implementation and support of “optimized mining selectivity models”, which has been the seed of the overall value chain optimization of Glencore’s Zinc & Lead Department.