Contributors
Ana Carolina Chieregati
Ana Carolina is a Mining Engineer from University of São Paulo, has a master and a PhD degree in Mineral Engineering from University of São Paulo, and has a geoscience post-doctorate from the [...]
Ross Cunningham
With an electrical and automation background, Ross has spent close to 20 years working with leading sample prep and laboratory OEM’s across the globe, where his passion for innovation and [...]
Simon C. Dominy
Dr Simon Dominy is a mining geologist-engineer with over 25 years’ experience based in operations, consulting and academia. He has a background in mine operations and technical/leadership roles, [...]
Kim H. Esbensen
Dr Kim H. Esbensen has been research professor in Geoscience Data Analysis and Sampling at GEUS, the National Geological Surveys of Denmark and Greenland (2010– 2015), chemometrics and sampling [...]
Dominique François-Bongarçon
Dominique François-Bongarçon graduated as a Mining Engineer and holds a Doctorate in Mining Sciences and Techniques at the Geostatistics Center from the Paris School of Mines (Paris Tech). He [...]
Hylke Glass
Hylke Glass is Professor at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM), a department of the University of Exeter, since 2001. He was originally introduced to sampling theory by Theo Zegers at the Delft [...]
Janice C. Graham
Janice C. Graham has over 16 years’ experience working in the mining industry, gaining experience in a variety of commodities and deposits, using different mining software packages (Datamine, [...]
Ralph J. Holmes
Ralph Holmes obtained a BSc degree in Physics from the University of Melbourne in 1967 and a PhD degree from the same university in 1972. Over the last 35 years Ralph has been involved largely in [...]
Harrison Martin
A manufacturing and mechatronics engineer with a passion for creativity and problem solving. Outside of work Harry enjoys music, basketball, and freestyle skiing.
Richard Minnitt
Dick Minnitt completed a MSc in geology in the Murchison Range and a PhD in the Richtersveld regions of southern Namibia. He joined Anglo American and later JCI, after which he spent 14 years [...]
Chris O‘Haire
A design engineer and project manager with a background in product development, engineering and production across mining, biomedical and consumer industries. Chris lives on a small piece of land [...]
Claudia Paoletti
Claudia Paoletti did her Master in Biological Science at the University of Rome (Italy) and her PhD in Plant Genetics at the University of Connecticut, USA. She was for three years at Dalhousie [...]
Francis F. Pitard
Dr Francis F. Pitard is a consulting expert in Sampling, Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Total Quality Management (TQM). He is President of Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants in Broomfield, [...]
Saranchimeg Purevgerel
Saranchimeg (Saraa) Purevgerel has experience in exploration, resource development and mining investment across several commodities including coal, copper-gold, copper, gold, fluorite, and iron [...]
Alan F. Rawle
Alan Rawle has had around almost 50 years’ experience in various aspects of science and technology. Alan has a degree in industrial chemistry and a Ph.D in supported alloy catalysts both [...]
Steven Russell
Steven Russell has been designing, developing and implementing automation projects for the mining industry across a two-decade career. He has applied his background as a mechatronics engineer to [...]