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| Dr. Malcolm L Thurston |
Senior Vice President,
Mineral Resource
Management |
| De Beers Canada Inc. |
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Dr. Malcolm L Thurston
Malcolm Thurston has 24 years experience in the minerals industry. Currently, he leads the Mineral Resource Management function within De Beers Canada directing the sampling, resource estimation and resource to reserve conversion for all Canadian projects and exploration.
Malcolm started his career with De Beers in 1980 where he worked as a mine geologist in South Africa, on the placer beach deposits at the Kleinzee mine. After Kleinzee, Malcolm spent time in diamond exploration before moving across to the gold division of Anglo American where he worked as a mine geologist. He was responsible for the coordination and monitoring of all geological data from two shafts hoisting approximately two million tonnes per year. In 1988, Malcolm established an office to develop and apply geostatistical techniques on the gold mines of the Freegold complex.
Malcolm then moved to Johannesburg in 1992 where he was responsible for the evaluation of kimberlite resources within the De Beers Group of companies. During this time, he had the opportunity to specialize in microdiamond estimation and has evaluated most of the major kimberlite pipes in Southern Africa and Russia.
In 1998, Malcolm left De Beers and joined a consultancy in the United States where he specialized in resource audits for third parties as well as mineral resource estimation in diamond, gold and base metal deposits. Malcolm rejoined De Beers in Canada in August 2003 as the Vice-President, Mineral Resource Management.
Malcolm has a BSc (Hons) degree in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines, London, a Diplome Etudes Approfondes from the Centre de Geostatistique in France and a PhD from the Witwatersrand University in South Africa. He is a past chairman of the Geostatistical Association of South Africa, has co-authored papers on resource estimation and has made several presentations at the Cordilleran Conference in Vancouver (2000, 2001 and 2002), PDAC (2000, 2001 and 2004) and the CIM (2002).
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