Committee Member

Marcelo Cortes

MAusIMM

Manager Mineral Resource Reporting, BHP

Geologist with a Diploma in Geo-Mining-Metallurgy and Magister in Economic Geology. Self-starter and highly committed to safety, with a track record of successfully leading and developing geology teams. My professional experience includes more than 19 years of technical background in exploration, drilling, sampling, mine geology, modeling and resource estimation of Porphyry Copper, IOCG, and Low Sulphidation Silver/Gold deposits, and more
than 6 years of experience as Competent Person for Resources at Escondida and participation in peer reviews and due diligence processes.

Since 2018 working in the Technical Centre of Excellence in Perth as part of the Technical Assurance team executing internal audits and reviews for Resources and Reserves in different deposits through BHP, including; Olympic Dam, MinAus Coal and Nickel West. High connected with technology teams and other disciplines including some reviews of the capability matrix
for the BHP Geoscientist.

As part of my experience, I have worked in a number of mining companies. Including BHP, Anglo American Chile and Coeur D'Alene Mines.

My interests include maintaining a balance between work and family, to continue my career leading geoscience teams and the development-implementation of new technology tools for Resource characterisation.