Richard Clayton has over 20 years of mining sector experience where he held technical, advisory and financial services roles.
Mr Clayton spent over 11 years at Investec Bank where he had leadership responsibility as Australia desk head within its global resources team, and held ultimate responsibility for all technical due diligence assessments across the resources sector. Prior to Investec, Mr Clayton was a principal consultant at SRK Consulting, specialising in mineral resource estimation and project evaluation. He headed up the Sydney geology team and was a member of its practice leadership group where he managed multi-disciplinary due diligence and valuation teams in delivering resource estimation and reviews to a range of clients internationally, including Competent Person sign-off.
Since 2022, Mr Clayton has been operating a consultancy practice, providing advisory services to mining companies and financiers including study management, business development and due diligence reviews.
