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, with multi-commodity and continent experience. He has worked across the mine value chain from project studies, through to mine reopening/development and operations. Simon is an acknowledged expert in the evaluation and exploitation of coarse gold-bearing high-nugget effect deposits. He has designed and managed numerous studies relating to geometallurgy; resource development; sampling protocol optimisation; bulk sampling programmes; resource/reserve estimation; and grade control. He has authored numerous technical reports (JORC 2012 and NI 43-101), and peer reviewed journal and conference papers. He is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK, and holds technical/advisory positions with Novo Resources Corp., Artemis Resources Ltd, Puma Exploration Inc., and OCX Gold Group. In 2022, Simon was awarded the Pierre Gy Sampling Gold Medal by the IPGSA.

Articles by Simon C. Dominy

Application of PhotonAssay™ to Coarse-Gold Mineralisation – The Importance of Rig to Assay Optimisation

Estimating total sampling error for near infrared spectroscopic analysis of pharmaceutical blends — theory of sampling to the rescue

WCSB12 – Sampling for a Sustainable World

When “homogeneity” is expected — Theory of Sampling in pharmaceutical manufacturing