Primary Job Title Managing Director Primary Organization 
MinEx Consulting
Location Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
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Richard holds an Honours Degree in Materials Engineering and a MBA and has over 30 years experience in a wide variety of project analysis, business development and strategic planning roles within the international resources industry – including 15 years at WMC and, more recently, 4 years at BHP Billiton.
In 2008 Richard founded MinEx
Consulting to provide strategic and economic advice to industry and government. His main focus is on the economics of mineral exploration and building the business case for how exploration adds-value to a company. In short – how companies can make money out of exploration by knowing which commodities to look for, where to look for them, and how best to do it. It also involved what Governments can do to attract investment in exploration and mining.
Even though Richard is based here in Melbourne, his client base is truly international. It covers over 70 companies (both Major and Junior), investment groups and Governments around the World.
Richard has published several dozen papers on exploration performance and is internationally recognized by his peers as a world leader in mineral economics.
In recognition of this, in December 2015, the Mining Journal nominated him as one of the top 20 power people in world mining, due to his influence on strategy and policy in the exploration sector.
He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Resources Policy, the organising committees for the AusIMM and the Melbourne Mining Club, and is also a member of SEG and an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Exploration Targeting at UWA.
