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
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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)
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