AMC sponsors the International Mining Geology Conference 2022

Rod Carlson

Rod is Geology Manager (Brisbane), as well as the General Manager of AMC's office in Brisbane. A principal geologist with extensive management and consulting experience, Rod is highly experienced in areas including resource evaluation and audit, mine to mill reconciliation, geochemistry, drilling interpretation, and regolith mapping. Rod has worked across numerous commodities including gold, copper, bauxite, platinum, and coal. He has extensive international experience, having worked on projects in Australia, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Colombia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, and Oman.

Alex Virisheff

Alex is Principal Geologist with more than 45 years of experience in the minerals industry including 23 years in consulting roles in Australia.  He is experienced in geological modelling, resource estimation, and geostatistics. In addition to these core mining skills, he is proficient in technical audits, reviews, and due diligence studies over a wide range of commodities including iron ore, gold, silver, copper, base metals, tungsten, vanadium, lithium and mineral sands within a broad range of geological settings. He has significant international experience, having worked on numerous mining projects in Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, South America and Russia.

Maree Angus

Maree is a principal geologist with more than 25 years’ experience in the mining industry.  Her primary areas of expertise are 3D geological modelling, QA/QC, technical data collection protocols, geostatistical analysis, resource estimation, grade control reconciliation and resource project management. Maree has strong experience in resource audits for precious metal and base metal projects.

Brett Nielsen

Brett is a professional geoscientist with more than 11 years’ experience in multiple deposit styles in differing mining environments. He has experience in exploration and operations in a range of commodities. Brett is focussing on resource geology and has worked using a range of estimation techniques for gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. In mining, he has a proven track record in managing both open pit bench, and underground narrow vein stope and pillar operations.

Phil Micale

Phil is a Principal Geologist with more than 18 years of mining industry experience. He has held technical roles in both open cut and underground operations along the East Coast of Australia and has operational experience in a range of different commodities (dominantly gold) in a variety of geological settings. His production experience has been supplemented by 8 years consulting experience where he has supported clients on operations both in Australia and overseas. Phil’s resource geology experience spans more than a decade.

The range of Phil’s geological skillsets includes exploratory data analyses, sampling, QA/QC, database management, grade control, mineral resource estimation / reporting, project management, reconciliation, and technical auditing / due diligence.