Michael Forrest CV CURICULUM VITAE Name Address Telephone No Martial Status Michael David Forrest Highcliffe House, Leecroft Road, Barnet EN5 2TW. 0208 440 7725, email michael.forrest@miningresearch.co.uk Married Education 1959-62 1962-65 1963 1965 1966-69 Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Lancashire Brighton Grammar School, Sussex "O" Levels : 7 subjects "A" Levels : 3 subjects London University BSc Hons degree Professional Qualifications Fellow Institute Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM); Fellow Geological Society (FGS), Chartered Scientist (CSci) , Chartered Geologist. Fellow AusIMM Work experience 1969 1990 British Geological Survey 1990-1998 Mining Journal Research Services 1998-present Mining consultant at Mining Research Synopsis Michael Forrest has over 20 years experience as a geologist specialising in field data surveys, databasing, and geological interpretation with the British Geological Survey (BGS) where he was employed as a senior geologist. For nearly a decade he worked as a mining consultant, principally in the assessment of commodity markets and mining projects, with Mining Journal Research Services where he was deputy head of research. For the past 12 years he has been an independent consultant. As a geochemist for BGS he organised and completed extensive geochemical surveys that generated very large datasets for application in mineral exploration and environmental base-line studies. The survey involved the extensive training of graduate-level field assistants, database management, and the development of data interpretation systems using image analysis technology at the National Remote Sensing Centre, Farnborough, UK. At the Mining Journal he specialised in wide ranging contract-led research focusing on business development in the mining sector. These ranged from commodity market surveys, markets for mining equipment and consumables and reviews of national mining sectors. He also has extensive experience the authoring of company and government mining-related publications for mining projects in developing countries. He has also worked, amongst many other studies, on mining project development in Saudi Arabia for the British Saudi Al Yamamah offset programme and on a tantalum mining feasibility study for the Brazilian company Mamore. More recently he has prepared IPO documents for a diamond and uranium companies with planned listing on AIM, and also on several A&M due diligence reports for financial institutions. Past experience in the drilling sector includes due diligence for the management buyout of 1 Michael Forrest CV Halco Drilling Services, a drilling market review for MI Industries, Houston, Texas and a regional study for Orica, the international explosives company. His publications are extensive both as a geologist specialising in geochemistry and remote sensing, in commercial publishing at Mining Journal where Research Services produced the Mining Journal Country Supplements, and authored over 200 articles in mining related topics. He also produced a corporate brochure for the Saudi Arabian mining company Ma’aden. This can be downloaded from www.miningresearch.co.uk He is past president of the London mining society MinSouth (www.minsouth.org.uk) and chair the Applied Earth Science Division of the Institute Materials Minerals and Mining (www.iom3.org/divisions/earth_sciences/contents.htm) 2