Geometallurgy 2025

Prof Bernd Lottermoser

Chair & Institute Director, Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, RWTH Aachen University

Chair in Sustainable Resource Extraction

• Grant peer reviewer for funding agencies from Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Ireland, Qatar, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and the European Science Foundation
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Advanced Mining Technology Center, Universidad de Chile
• Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow
• Endeavour Executive Award granted by the Australian Prime Minister
• Michael Daley Award, for excellence in the reporting of science, technology and engineering issues, which are vital to Australia’s future
• More than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals
• Scopus h-index of 31
• Google scholar h-index of 39
• Included in the list of the top 1 % most influential scientists in his scientific area, https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3
• Co-author for reports of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Mark Campodonic

Corporate Consultant (Resource Geology), SRK Consulting

Mark Campodonic is a Corporate Consultant and Practice Leader of SRK UK, with over 20 years' international experience in mineral exploration, resource estimation and project development.

Mark specialises in the authoring and auditing of resource estimates in accordance and compliance with International Reporting Codes, for independent assessments and as part of multi-disciplinary technical studies, auditing mining operations as part of Competent Person’s Reports and Stock Exchange Listings, and technical reviews.  

In addition, Mark has a comprehensive understanding of project development and technical requirements from junior exploration companies at grassroots exploration level, through to the listing of majors, and actively manages exploration programmes, project evaluations/valuations, provides operational and governance support, due diligence reviews and feasibility studies.

Mark has worked on base metals, precious-metals, bulk commodities (bauxite and iron ore), diamond and industrial mineral projects throughout Europe, Africa, Middle-East, Russia, the CIS, Asia and the Americas.

Prof Julian Ortiz

Professor, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter

Biography

He received a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Universidad de Chile (Chile), and completed a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering, specialising in Geostatistics, from University of Alberta (Canada). Subsequently, he worked at Universidad de Chile, where he became Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC). He founded the Advanced Laboratory for Geostatistical Supercomupting (ALGES) and led several large projects with public and private funding (CSIRO, BHP Billiton, Yamana Gold, AMTC, Innova, Fondecyt). He then moved to Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, where he was Associate Professor and Head of Department, and where he led the Predictive Geometallurgy and Geostatistics Lab. Dr Ortiz also founded Octal, a consulting company for specialised resource modeling in Chile, and the startup APMT in Canada, specialised on workflow automation and advanced algorithms in resource modeling and mine planning, where he is currently Director and Principal Consultant.

 

Academic qualifications

• B.Sc. Mining Engineering, 1998 - Universidad de Chile
• Ph.D. Mining Engineering (Geostatistics), 2003 - University of Alberta
• Post Doctoral fellow, 2003 - University of Alberta

Employment History

• 1999-2016, Universidad de Chile (Chile) - Associate Professor, Head of Department, Deputy Director AMTC
• 2005-2008, University of Alberta (Canada) - Adjunct Professor
• 2016-2024, Queen's University (Canada) - Associate Professor and Head of Department
• 2016-present, Universidad de Chile (Chile) - Adjunct Professor
• 2024-present, Queen's University (Canada) - Adjunct Professor
• 2024-present, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter (UK) - Professor

Adam Johnston

Chief Metallurgist, Transmin Metallurgical Consultants

Adam has lead process development for several world class projects. He is the architect behind Cancha geometallurgical software, and is Chief Metallurgist at Transmin Metallurgical Consultants.

: www.cancha.pe
: adam-johnston-9445596