Geert has over 20 years of experience in exploration and mining geology. After graduating from the University of Leuven, Belgium with an MSc in geology, he worked in Europe, the Middle East and Asia as a mining geologist for Sibelco. Geert later worked as Operations Manager and General Manager for a number of gold and diamond mining projects in Angola and the DRC.
As a consultant he completed diamond, precious and base metals projects, mainly in Central and West Africa and in Turkey. Since 2005, Geert has been based in Turkey, where he has build up an extensive professional network within the European mining and exploration industry.

Sander is a dedicated project geologist at Skapto Consulting. As a consultant at Skapto, he had the opportunity to obtain experience from desktop studies, target generation and grass roots exploration to property evaluation and due diligence studies. Contract locations range from the Turkish part of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt, to the Western Goldfields in Australia and the Guerrero Gold Belt in Mexico. The multitude of deposits he encountered over the years comprises many types including epithermal, porphyry, skarn, SEDEX, CRD, as well as alluvial placers.

Mark Parker is a geophysicist and exploration entrepreneur with 39 years’ experience in exploration and corporate management in Africa, Europe, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Mark previously worked in the British Geological Survey, Hunting Geology and Geophysics, Ark Geophysics and as a consultant.

Noël Masson is an internationally renowned zinc metallurgist with over 50 years of experience, including metallurgical test work on most of the major zinc oxide deposits (Padaeng, Roseberry, Sanyati, Shaimerden, Skorpion, …). Noel Masson is a civil engineer in metallurgy from the University of Brussels.
He joined Vielle Montagne in 1962 and was appointed as managing director. After the merger, he became the Chief Executive Officer of Union Minière (now Umicore, Nyrstar and Aurubis), and later Non-Executive Director.
In 1997, he joined Reunion Mining as Non-Executive Director. He developed the metallurgical flowsheet for the Skorpion deposit, which had been problematic for decades. After the take-over by Anglo-American, he was retained as a metallurgical advisor. Noël Masson co-founded ZincOx with Andrew Woollet and was Executive Chairman till 2008. He was also First Chairman of IZA, the International Zinc Association and was in charge of defining the mining strategy of several African Countries for the World Bank.

Pascal van Osta has more than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration in Africa and South America. He is currently Vice President-Exploration at RosCan Gold Corp. Pascal van Osta was previously employed as Exploration Manager by Gold X Mining Corp. (previously Sandspring Resources Ltd.), as Exploration Manager by Endeavour Mining Corp., and as Chief Geologist by Etruscan Resources Inc. Pascal van Osta is EuroGeo and graduated from the Free University of Brussels with Honours degree in Geology.

Emma Parker is an environmental scientist who has worked on exploration and mining projects in eastern and central Africa. Emma has global experience in a number of sectors, working extensively throughout sub-Saharan Africa for the last 9 years.
Emma currently sits as President of the US board of a Tanzanian-run orphanage and is actively involved in strategic planning, development and fundraising for the organisation. She is also Operations Director of the Musangu Foundation, an initiative born out of the mining industry in sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation aims to improve education, health and livelihoods.