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Full Name: Nick Cox

Company: Xirlatem

Occupation: Geologist
Education: BSc(Hons) MSci(Hons)
Professional Memberships / Affiliations : Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Associated of AusIMM
State: WA

Bio

Nick has worked in the Eastern Goldfields for over 13 years and prior to joining Xirlatem he held the position of Superintendent Exploration & Resource Definition for Evolution Mining’s Mungari Operations. During his time with Evolution, Nick was a key member of the team that discovered the Boomer deposit in a very mature mining camp as well as executing large Exploration campaigns and Resource drill outs throughout the Kalgoorlie region. Prior to Evolution, Nick worked for Northern Star Resources and was instrumental in the discovery of the Paradigm North orebody, as well working on multiple near mine orebody extensions on projects across Northern Star’s Kalgoorlie Operations. Nick has also previously worked for Alacer Gold and Silverlake Resources in both Exploration and Underground Production. Graduating from Camborne School of Mines with an MSci and BSc in Engineering Geology & Geotechnics in 2009. Nick then spent two years working for a petrographic consultancy in London before emigrating to Western Australia in 2012.

Experience

Commodities

base-metals, precious-metals, speciality-metal, steel-alloy-metal

Skills

Air Core Drill Programs, Annual Technical Reporting, Budgeting, Chip Logging, Contractor Management, Core Logging, Daily Reporting, Data Collection, Data Validation, Department Management, Diamond Drill Programs, Drill Planning, Drill Reporting, Drill Rig Supervision, Due Diligence, Exploration, Face Mapping and Sampling, Field Mapping, geochemistry, Geochemical Sampling, Geographic Information Systems, Geological Mapping, Geological Modelling, Geological Opinion, Historical Data Review, Mentoring, Minimum Expenditure Commitment Planning, Pit Mapping, POW Preparation, Project Assesment and Evaluation, Public Reporting, Remote Exploration, Resource Drilling, Reverse Circulation Drill Programs, Rock Chip Sampling, Soil Sampling, Statutory Reporting, structural geology, Technical Guidance, Wireframing

Software

acQuire, GPS, Imago, ioGAS, Leapfrog Geo, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, QGIS, QGIS

Development Stage

Exploration, Resource Development

Testimonials

Phone

0458 075 821

Email

nick@xirlatem.com.au

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