Jacobus Conradie Pienaar (Koos)
Geology Consultant
Skills
• Management
• Consultancy
• Exploration
o Design and manage drilling campaigns
o 3D deposit modelling
o QA/QC and database management
o Ensure SAMREC and JORC compliance
o Sampling
• Staff Development
o Training
o Career Development
• Technical
o Surface and underground mapping and structural interpretation
o Mineral, structural and geotechnical core logging
o RC chip logging and sampling
o QA/QC control on any drilling project, including the use of standards, blanks and duplicates.
Professional Experience
• 19 Years’ experience in various Wits gold mines. Mapping, drilling and general geological control of shaft sections.
• Resource drilling sampling programme on an underground Free State gold mine.
• Database management at a zinc mine in Namibia.
• Exploration Manager – Iron ore and gold exploration – Ghana and Liberia
• Geological Field Mapping – Various sites in Liberia and South Africa
• Resource sampling - Iron ore deposits – Kolomella mine Northern Cape
• Consulting and Training for MQA accredited Company
Professional Bodies
• Member of South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (Pr.Sci.Nat) Nr. 400139/94
Education – South Africa
• B.Sc. Honours Geology – Rand Afrikaans University
• M.Sc. Geology – Rand Afrikaans University
• Facilitator SAQA US 117871
• Assessor SAQA US 115753
