Reno Pressacco
Associate Principal Geologist,
SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd
Oakville,
Canada
Reno has enjoyed a productive career as a geologist in the Canadian mining industry, working on a wide variety of commodities and deposit types in many locations across the world. A notable achievement during his career was to play a key role in identifying the economic potential of the Matachewan (Young-Davidson) gold deposit (Ontario) at the exploration stage. He was also involved in the early stages of the Cerro Negro mine (Argentina) where he participated in the discovery phase and prepared some of the initial Mineral Resource estimates for the Eureka Vein.
More recently Reno has participated in the crafting of the CIM Mineral Exploration Best Practices Guidelines (2018), the CIM Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Best Practices Guidelines (2019) and the CIM Industrial Minerals Leading Practices Guidelines (2023). He received the CIM Robert Elver award in 2020 and was accepted as a Fellow to Geoscientists Canada in 2024. He is a member of the CIM Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Committee and the United Nations Minerals Working Group.
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