Brian Fitzpatrick

Background

About Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian was born in a mining town on the west coast of Tasmania and has worked in the mining and exploration industry for over 30 years. He is a member of the AusIMM(CP). He has a broad range of skills developed from his career as a geologist in open pit and underground mining and near-mine exploration, working with a variety of deposits within Australia. Brian is highly experienced in Archaean gold mineralisation styles and extraction techniques for both open pit and underground mining. He is an expert user of Vulcan and Surpac and is highly skilled with mine geology and grade control processes, reconciliations, resource interpretation, modeling, and estimation. Having joined the Cube team in January 2012, Brian will apply his industry experience to help clients with all aspects of mining activities and mineral resource evaluation. Brian has recently worked on several gold-silver projects in the Deseado Massif in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina, a VMS copper project in the Middle East, and gold projects in NW Ontario, Canada. Specialties: Resource Modelling, validation and reporting; Due diligence studies; Technical reporting in accordance with the JORC(2012) and NI43-101; Independent Geologist Reports for a company prospectus; Underground and Open Pit mine geology, grade control & reconciliation evaluations and recommendations; Mining software experience - Surpac, Vulcan and Leapfrog.