Richard Nicholls

Richard Nicholls is a Principal Consultant (Mining Geology) and Competent Person with 24 years of diverse international experience, focusing on the estimation and reporting of Mineral Resources. Richard’s technical expertise includes geological modelling and Mineral Resource estimation and technical report preparation. He has experience in the planning and implementation of production and grade control strategies, the management of resource drilling programmes, QAQC and database management. Richard’s experience includes 11 years working on operating open pit mines in Namibia, Mali, Tanzania and Venezuela. Since joining SRK (UK) in 2009, he has focused on the authoring of Mineral Resource Estimation reports as well as resource reviews for due diligence studies, technical audits and Competent Persons’ Reports. Richard has worked on a range of base and precious metal deposits at exploration, feasibility and production stages in Africa, South America, Russia and Central Asia.