Lecturers and external examiners partnered with for the MRM degree include:
Dr Christina Dohm: Dr Dohm has 40 years’ experience in the mining industry. She has been involved in Mineral Resource Management, Mineral Resource Evaluation & Classification, Independent reviews and the Corporate Governance associated with Competent Persons Reports and Mining Operations and Projects worldwide. She has been a lecturer for the past four decades at various South African universities and continued lecturing and supervising post-graduate students in Geo-statistics and MRM since her retirement from Anglo American at the end of 2015.
Ettienne Bergh: Bergh completed his pre-graduate studies in Industrial Engineering at the TUT and UNISA before obtaining a Masters’ Degree in MRM from the UFS. He has 22 years of experience in mining, of which he spent 16 leading strategic and tactical MRM and mine planning support teams. He has been a manager of multi-disciplinary teams supplying MRM services to mining operations with various operational research & productivity studies in support of ground level & tactical improvement initiatives in simulation modelling and systems and process analyses. In recent years he has broadened his exposure to consulting, entrepreneurship, and education. He is currently studying towards an online MBA with the Jack Welch Management Institute, hosted by Strayer University in the USA.
Marelize du Toit: du Toit is skilled in process design, simulation, optimization, and team leadership. She is a process engineer with Wood Mining and Minerals and her ability to think strategically has helped her to solve complex problems in the mining and minerals industry. She understands the mine development life cycle from concept studies to commissioning in ferrous and non-ferrous minerals with more than 16 years of experience. du Toit is a registered chemical engineer with ECSA and has completed the MSc MRM degree at the UFS.
Karien van der Merwe: van der Merwe is a professionally registered I/O Phycologist with 20 years’ experience in team development and coaching. She focuses mainly on team development and coaching and the facilitation of roles and responsibilities while offering diversity and inclusion workshops. She has extensive experiences in conflict resolution, learnership training and Organizational Change and Effectiveness within the mining industry.
Prof Krige Visser: Prof Visser is a professor with the Graduate School of Technology Management at the University of Pretoria. He has published 23 papers in academic journals and presented more than 30 papers at international conferences. He is registered as a professional engineer (ECSA) and is a council member of the Southern African Asset Management Association. His research interests are maintenance management, reliability management and physical asset management. He has over 31 years of industry experience.
Ryno Kruger: Kruger is a Chief Iron Ore Geologist and Technical Manager with more than 20 years extensive experience in the complete spectrum of the mining industry from exploration, mining, beneficiation, management to international marketing. He completed the UFS MRM degree in 2005. He has international experience as Technical Marketing Manager for Kumba Hong Kong in the Asian market and applies Systemic Thinking within MRM as a Value Chain specialist. He has been part of the development team at HCL developing world class mining optimisation systems.
Michelle Dimmick-Touw: Dimmick-Touw has completed the MSc MRM degree at the UFS and has a master’s degree in education focusing on open and distance learning. She has 15 years international industry experience in management and technical geological roles in various commodities. She has been a part of integrated mentoring programs which identify and develop the potential within individuals.
Mark Burnett: Burnett completed his BSc (Hons) in Geology form University of Witwatersrand and his prost graduated diploma at NWU. Since then, he has completed his Citation in Applied Geostatistics in 2011 from the University of Alberta and Graduate certificate in Geostatistics in 2012 from Edith Cowan University. Burnett Completed the MSc MRM in 2016 and is also an honorary lecturer of the University of Exeter and an executive committee member of the Pan European reserves and Resources Reporting Committee. He has technical and management experience form AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony gold, Snowden and AMC consultants.
Tumelo Diale: Diale is currently a doctor philosophy candidate with his field of study in finance, he completed a Master of Management in Finance & Investments from the University of the Witwatersrand as well as the MSc in mineral resource management form the University of the Free State. He has 15 years of experience in the South African mining and financial sector.
Philip Viljoen: Managing Director at RuZults Education, Viljoen has taught and developed people in Theory of Constraints thinking and applications throughout Southern Africa. He practices as educator, coach and mentor to cause people to think and then act through seeing their potential, developing their vision and supporting them to exceed. His clients get rapid results through unrelenting focus on maximizing flow. He has been part of Dr Eli Goldratt's inner circle for many years and uses the Theory of Constraints as the basis of his thinking and practice.
Mark Dimmick-Touw: Dimmick-Touw has 10 years’ experience in coal and iron ore mine and exploration geology in both Africa and South Africa and currently works as a geologist in the coal mining industry. Mark holds a degree and honours degree in geology and completed his MSc Mineral Resource Management in 2018. He is currently completing his MBA with a focus on renewable energy and sustainability at the University of Cumbria.