Providing customer and logistical support for OREAS services and products in Southern Africa, from Johannesburg (in the Central African Time Zone).

Michael McWha

Mike is a recognised world authority on the manufacture and use of mineral CRM’s. He has over 30 years’ experience in the South African and Australasian mining, exploration and mineral industries.

He has a BSc (Hons) Geology from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; he is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of South Africa (FGSSA) and the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FSAIMM). He is registered as a Professional Natural Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat.) with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP).

Mike spent many years serving in both the Working Committee and on the main Committee for the South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (SAMREC Code). He was Chairman of the subcommittee writing Section 12 of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Listings Requirements and is fully conversant with all JORC based reporting Codes. He also sat on the South African ISO/REMCO until 2015.

He was the founder and Managing Director of African Mineral Standards (AMIS) from 2004 until 2015.

Before that he was Resident Geologist for Anglo American Corporation on Western Deep Levels South and East Mines (Mponeng and Tautona) and Manager: Mineral Resources for DRD Gold Ltd.

Papers:

M. McWha, 1994, The influence of landscape on the Ventersdorp Contact Reef at Western Deep Levels South Mine, South African Journal of Geology, Volume 97, Issue 3, Jan 1994, p. 319 - 331.

Zhao, B., Meyer, F.M., Robb, L.J. & McWha, M., A preliminary study of alteration associated with the Ventersdorp Contact Reef at Western Deep Levels South Mine, Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa, South African Journal of Geology, Volume 97, Issue 3, Jan 1994, p. 348 - 356.