Mark Mitchell

Mark Mitchell has over 35 years of geological experience in the exploration of diamonds, rare earths, phosphate, gold, lithium and base metals in Australia, Canada, China, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Mr Mitchell spent 24 years at De Beers Australia rising to the position of exploration manager until its closure in 2009. He then became exploration manager for Kinloch Resources who had rare earth, phosphate, gold, nickel and copper projects in Australia and Southern Africa.

Mr Mitchell has since been consulting for various diamond, base-metal and gold companies and prospectors across Australia, in particular the cratonic areas. He has significant experience ranging from targeting through to resource evaluation, and has been successful in the discovery of several ore deposits in Australia. Mr Mitchell has also acted in the capacity of company liaison representative on various research projects.

He has geological membership with the Geological Society of Australia and Australian Institute of Geoscientists, and is a Registered Professional Geoscientist.