Mineral Resource Evaluation Conference

Edmund (Ed) Sides is a resource geologist who graduated in Geology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and subsequently obtained MSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College, London.  For most of his forty-year career he has worked in the mining industry, in exploration, resource estimation, education and training and consulting.  

He has been a member of the Pan-European Reserves and Resources Reporting Committee (PERC) since 2014 and one of PERC’s two representatives on the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO) since 2018.  He has been a member of the CRIRSCO Executive since 2024, and he is the current Chairperson of CRIRSCO.

Prof. Hylke J. Glass is Professor of Mining and Minerals Engineering at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, a role he has held since 2001. His research focuses on integrated mining and minerals extraction, including geometallurgy, digital twins, block caving, sensor‑based preconcentration, tailings reprocessing, geothermal resources and energy storage. He leads multiple major UK and EU‑funded projects, lectures extensively on resource modelling and mineral processing, and serves as Chair of IOM3’s Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Board. 

James Cleverley is Operations Manager – Minerals (Europe) at IMDEX, with over two decades of experience spanning academia, government research and mining technology. He holds a PhD in geoscience and has published extensively in hydrothermal geochemistry, data analytics and geological characterisation. James works at the intersection of geology, geochemistry and digital workflows, focusing on improving data quality, integration and confidence across the exploration and resource definition cycle. His current work centres on helping clients apply connected sensing, geoscience analytics and integrated digital workflows to make more informed, defensible decisions throughout geological interpretation and mineral resource estimation.

James Shreeve has been working with Geotek for the last nine years starting as the Geoscience Team Leader and now as the Sales and Marketing Director of the business. James is a Geologist by background and holds a MRes degree in Marine Geology and Geophysics. James started his career as an Engineering Geologist working predominantly on offshore Geohazards for Oil and Gas field developments where he was introduced to Geotek and core scanning technology employing it on several of his projects. Since then James has technically led numerous geological studies, production of geological models and core logging projects around the world, and now using these experiences to develop new technology and business for Geotek. 

Prof. Julian Ortiz is a Mining Engineering (Universidad de Chile) and Ph.D. in Geostatistics (University of Alberta).  He is a registered Competent Person (Chile). Dr. Ortiz has led a successful academic career at Universidad de Chile and Queen’s University (Canada). In 2024 he joined CSM – University of Exeter as the Mark Cutifani / Anglo American Chair in Mining Innovation. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and consultant for over 25 years. He is the co-founder and CEO of Annapurna Suite, a Canadian technology company that provides SaaS automating and streamlining resource modeling with cutting edge cloud technology.   

Mark Burnett, Principal Geologist. Mark has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. Mark is one of PERCs representatives on CRIRSCO and is currently participating in the PERC Geothermal lithium brines working group, the UNRMS Life Cycle Accountability Framework Expert Working Group and the UNTF-CETM TC-AR2 Expert Working Group. 

Dr. Simon Dominy is a mining geologist-engineer with 30 years of international experience in consulting, academia, and underground operational roles. He specialises in the evaluation of high-nugget effect deposits (particularly gold and tin); geometallurgy; sampling/Theory of Sampling; resource development; resource/reserve estimation; and operations management. His academic contributions include over 100 peer-reviewed publications and regular involvement in teaching and research at CSM. He serves as a technical advisor to several resource development companies, and sits on the PERC Reporting Standard Committee. In 2022, he received the Pierre M. Gy Sampling Gold Medal.