John Chisholm

John Chisholm has been a consulting geologist with a wide experience in exploration geology and exploration management, having worked as lecturer at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, prior to working for various international mining companies. He joined Western United Mining Services in 1984 as managing director, where he managed a large group of geoscientists and was involved in the discovery of the Transvaal and Bounty mines. Dr Chisholm formed a private geological consulting company, Continental Resource Management, in 1989 which specialises in exploration management, resource estimations, structural geology and applied geochemistry. He served as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Economic Geology at Curtin University. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy with Chartered Practising status in Geology. Dr Chisholm was one of the first geologists in Australia to have been awarded Practising Chartered Status in geology by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, which has been the highest level of recognition that can be attained by professional geologists.