Perth
Ben Pollard
Geology Manager - Perth
Ben has been working in the Mining and Exploration Industry for 12 years, primarily in the WA goldfields.
He has worked on most of the prolific gold camps in and around Kalgoorlie, including Coolgardie, Jubilee-New Celebration, Kundana, Paddington, Mount Pleasant, Ora Banda and Kanowna. Past employers include Navigator Resources, Harmony Gold, Barrick, New Hampton Goldfields and Herald Resources. Aside from exposure to Archaen granite-greenstone hosted gold deposits, he has also been involved in mineral sands exploration in the Murray Basin (NSW, SA, Vic) and carbonatite hosted polymetallic mineral exploration in the Kimberley.
Ben has recently joined BMGS to start the new Perth office in collaboration with Andrew Paterson.
Education
- Western Australian School of Mines, Kalgoorlie WA
Bachelor of Mineral Exploration and Mining Geology
Professional Membership
- Member, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Expertise
- Resource - Reserve Estimation (Gold / Uranium / Rare Earth Mete Earth Metals)
- Production optimisation and grade control systems
- Surpac mining software
- Whittle open pit optimizer
- MapInfo GIS software
- Database management
- Field activity coordination
- Mineralisation trend delineation and target generation
- Mine to Mill reconciliation
- Resource development
Projects
- Coolgardie / Sandstone Gold Project
- Bronzewing Gold Mine
- Murray Basin Mineral Sands Project
- Jubilee Gold Mine
- Kundana Gold Mine
- Paddington Gold Mine
- Mount Pleasant Gold Mine
- Ora Banda Gold Project
- Kanowna Belle Gold Mine
- Leonora Gold Project
- Cummins Range Exploration Project (polymetallic)
