Judges

Donald Hinks is a Principal Geophysicist with Rio Tinto Exploration with over 30 years of experience in exploration in the Americas, Africa and Europe. Donald has been with Rio Tinto for all this time and has worked on a range of commodity types in different jurisdictions and environments. Donald obtained a BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Exploration Geophysics from the University of Leeds. Donald is now based in Salt Lake City, Utah and mostly explores for porphyry copper deposits.