Dr Kevin Wills is a geologist with significant experience in multi-commodity mineral exploration including feasibility studies, mine operations and corporate activities in Australasia. He has been closely involved in the discovery and evaluation of economic mineral deposits of diamonds (Argyle, WA), base metals (Thalanga & Waterloo QLD), gold (Murchison WA and Challenger SA), mineral sands (Burekup, WA) and iron ore (Blacksmith WA).
Between 2010 and 2015, he was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide engaging in teaching economic geology and mineral exploration. He founded the SA Exploration and Mining Conference in 2004 and was chair of the organising committee until early 2018.
Dr Wills was the acting managing director of Marmota from November 2016 to January 2017, and executive director of exploration from June 2017 to May 2021. He was also the managing director of Flinders Mines for over ten years.
Dr Wills is an associate of the Royal School of Mines, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
He was awarded the GSA's Joe Harms Medal in 2016 for excellence in mineral exploration, the AusIMM's Institute Service Award in 2017.
