George Gilchrist

George studied geology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and has worked in the mining industry for over 20 years. He focusses on understanding the geological controls on mineralisation and ensuring these controls are built into geological and resource models used in exploration, mining studies and production environments. He began his career on the deep Witwatersrand gold mines before joining Snowden Consultants to work on projects across a range of different geological and geographical settings including southern and West Africa, South America, North America and Russia. George worked with Ivanhoe Mines for 11 years across their platinum group element, zinc and copper projects, and was heavily involved in the discovery, delineation, modelling and development of the Kakula Copper Deposit in the DRC. George now leads the geosciences group at KoBold, exploring for a variety of commodities globally. George has lived and worked in both South Africa and Canada. He has a BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa.