Bert De Waele has over 23 years of structural mapping experience, mostly in African Precambrian terrains. He has also consulted on base metal and gold prospects, setting up and running exploration programmes or interpreting regional geochemical data. At SRK Consulting Mr De Waele conducted Independent Technical Assessments on various mineral assets including gold, porphyry copper, iron ore, manganese, diamond, mineral sands, phosphate, evaporite and uranium. He also developed both expert and data-driven exploration targeting systems for gold and iron exploration projects. Regional mapping experience includes mapping 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 products in Zambia, Mauritania, Madagascar and Papua New Guinea; and prospect or tenement-scale mapping in Australia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Lao PDR, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Western Sahara. Mr De Waele holds an Adjunct Research posting at The University of Western Australia and has taught structural geology, computing in geoscience (GIS - Remote Sensing and DPA (Geosoft)) and supervised field classes, mapping projects and thesis in French-speaking and English-speaking environments.
