Primary and Secondary Uranium Exploration

Guy Freemantle

The MSA Group

Guy has 13 years of experience, the majority of which has been gained in uranium exploration and mining in southern Africa; Guy includes 3 years professional experience in optical and electron-beam microscopy and X-ray diffraction analyses, primarily in support of process mineralogy projects while at Mintek. Guy's project experience includes geological mapping, radiometric sampling- and downhole surveying, and drill program design and supervision. Project experience highlights include 6-years involvement on the Husab Mine Project, Namibia. This period included: metallurgical- and resource definition sampling campaigns; and targeting, planning, implementation, management, and reporting of exploration- and on-mine drilling campaigns. Guy has interest in ore forming processes, particularly for uranium and pegmatites, mining feasibility studies, process mineralogy, mineral economics, and has recently spent time in mineral prospectivity mapping and target generation projects for base metals. He has recent experience in managing copper and PGE drilling and sampling programs in Namibia, and Zimbabwe, respectively. Guy holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, which he obtained through the Economic Geology Research Institute of the School of Geoscience in 2015. He is registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions and is a fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa.

George van der Walt

The MSA Group

George is a registered professional geologist with over nineteen year's multi-commodity experience. He has been involved in early (greenfields) to advanced exploration projects including rare/battery metal (Li, Sn, Ta, Nb) pegmatites in Nigeria, Bushveld Complex PGE-Cu-Ni in South Africa, sedimentary uranium in South Africa and Niger, as well as exposure to rare earth carbonatite and Witwatersrand gold in South Africa. Rare metal pegmatite project management involved co-ordinating a 30-person team across six project areas, covering activities such as mapping, geophysical- and geochemical sampling programs, diamond core drilling, and integration of the data. Outcomes included the reporting of exploration results to international best practice and providing guidance and strategic inputs to Nigerian government entities.