Dr Colin T Barnett

Colin Barnett was Director of Exploration Technology for Newmont Mining Corporation before forming BW Mining. He received his BA and MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge, his MSc in Geophysics from Imperial College London, and his PhD in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines.

During a nearly 30-year career with Newmont, he was responsible for numerous innovations, including the first practical ground time-domain electromagnetic system. As chief geophysicist, he oversaw the introduction of electrical methods at the Yanacocha mine in Peru, which lead to the discovery of several blind deposits and helped to grow the reserves to over 40 million ounces of gold.

Dr Peter M Williams

Peter Williams taught Computer Science at the University of Sussex before forming BW Mining. He received his BA and MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, and his MSc and DPhil in Mathematical Logic from the University of Sussex.

His special fields of expertise are probability and information theory, and their application to data mining and machine learning. He has published many influential papers in these subjects over the past 30 years. He has been involved with mineral exploration for over 15 years, and has frequently acted as a consultant for Newmont Exploration Limited.