Richard DurhamProfessor at Mining industryTrainer
Profile
Richard has over 31 years experience in the mining industry and holds a PhD and a degree in Mining from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London.
He worked for several years for Datamine, initially as a consultant and then as general manager, helping produce advanced modules such as stratigraphical unfolding and mining zone modelling. Richard’s experience also includes working for small technical consultancies and as an individual consultant. In those roles he has been involved in many mining projects, and in commodities including gold, nickel, iron, mineral sands, lead, zinc and coal.
Richard’s field of expertise is in the practical application of technical software and hardware to mining, particularly in mine design, resource and reserve modelling, geostatistics and grade control.