AES HUMAN RESOURCES
AES HUMAN RESOURCES
Management and senior technical & geoscientific staff of AES includes :
Richard
Dahl, Senior Geologist & Geomatician
Jean
David, Senior Geophysical Engineer
Pierre-Jean
Lafleur, Senior Geological Engineer
Taboua
Valentin SELA, Senior Exploration Technologist
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Richard R.A. DAHL, PhD., Senior Geologist (Mineral exploration, Mineral Deposits & Project management)
Dr. Dahl is a graduate from the University of Strasbourg (France), where he completed a master degree in geology in 1981. In 1984, he completed a PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Clermont-Ferrand II (France) which was complemented by a post-doc in mineral deposits (precious metals) at Carleton University of Ottawa, Canada (1985-87). In the course of his career, he filled various technical and leading positions in research, mineral exploration, development and teaching on 3 continents.
His professional expertise covers most fields of the Earth Sciences including Metallogeny (precious and base metals, industrial minerals), Geological mapping, Structural Analysis (field, underground, aerial and satellite photos), Petrography and Mineralogy, Exploration Technology in glaciated and tropically weathered environments (Biogeochemical, Geochemical, and Geophysical surveys, trenching, drilling, etc...), Compilation of geoscientific and mining information, Modelling geometry and petrogenesis of ore deposits, Evaluation of Economic Potential of precious metals, base metals, and industrial minerals, and Geomatic (computer management of georeferenced information and data).
As a senior metallogenist for Geomines Ltd. - a geoservice company based in Montréal know merged with Tecsult International -, he generated, carried out and/or managed mineral exploration projects as well as hydrological and environmental studies in Eastern Canada (1989-91).
As senior geological consultant for UNDP/DESD of the United Nations in Niger (1991-93), Dr. Dahl presided to the design, set up and organisation of computerised geoscientific information services (PC workstations + GIS + Database manager) for the management of geographic, geological and mining information, land and natural resources management. He also conducted countrywide geological and mining compilations (Niger, West Africa; Chad, Central Africa) from 1991 to 95. He is the author of the Mining Journal Country Supplement, as well as the Guide for the Mining Investor for Chad published in 1996.
As an independent Consulting Geologist or Staff Chief Geologist, Dr. Dahl developed since 1985 a strong expertise for the exploration and metallogeny of Platinum Group Metals (PGM), Cu-Ni and Gold deposits and occurrences. He filled supervisory positions essentially focused on the exploration and resource evaluation of these commodities in Canada and West Africa, organising geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys, supervising trenching and drilling programs, managing local and expatriate human resources, and large budgets for a number of exploration and mining companies including SEREM (Canadian BRGM subsidiary), Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp., Newmont Gold, Cluff Mining and North American Palladium. He was involved in the discovery and early development of the Kalsaka gold deposit in Burkina Faso for Cluff. He planned and supervised the year 2000 exploration program at North American Palladium's Lac des Iles Mine, Northwestern Ontario. The program included an intensive drill program (> 100,000m) - leading to a 30% increase of NAP's Palladium resources - and surface exploration focused on the mine site and nearby satellite properties.
Dr. Dahl has been managing the BPGRM World bank-funded program in Madagascar in 2005-2006, whereby he implemented for GAF-AG (Munich) a Geoscientific and Mining Information Centre for the Ministry of Energy and Mines. He has designed and setup a number of GIS-based databases and data-centers in since 1991, both for institutions and exploration and mining companies.
Familiar of West Africa, its cultures and traditions as well as its administrative structures, he has been for over 5 years the starter and manager of local antennas of mining companies in Niger and Burkina Faso, acting both as administrator and exploration manager.
Dr. Dahl is a registered member of the Quebec Geologists Order (OGQ), and a number of other professional associations (CIM, SEG). He is a Competent Personne with respect to 43-101 stock exchange regulation (Canada).
Jean David, Senior Geophysical Engineer (Mineral and Groundwater exploration)
Mr. David is a graduate from the Montreal Polytechnical School where he obtained a B.Sc.A. in Geophysical Engineering in 1979. As a Geophysical Engineer, Mr. David has acquired, since 1975, a sound theoretical and practical knowledge in geology, computer sciences, electronic, and geophysics applied to hydrogeology, geotechnics and mining exploration. During the past twenty-five years, Mr. David has been supervising and executing geophysical surveys, processing and interpretating data, and making recommandations for follow up action, on a great number of mineral & water exploration projects in North America and Africa, including some of the most famous mineral deposits discovered lately in North and West Africa.
Mr. David has been a geophysical consultant in mineral exploration for over sixty different companies in Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, and Mauritania). Having studied an extremely large variety of mineralized environments, he is among the most experienced mineral exploration geophysicist in North and West Africa.
His professional expertise covers most fields of Exploration Geophysics, including airborne data acquisition (magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric), interpretation and compilation, ground and borehole data acquisition, processing and interpretation (Induced Polarisation (IP), resistivity, magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric, seismic refraction ).
Mr. David is presently the General Manager and Chief Geophysicist of Sagax Africa S.A. (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali) (1995 to now). He has been for height years (1987-1995) the General Manager of Sagax Maghreb S.A. based in Casablanca and Marrakech, Morocco. During these years, he was also vice-president and director of international development of the Val d'Or Sagax Group.
From 1985 to 1987, Mr. David has been Vice-President and Senior geophysicist for Sagax Geophysics Inc (Canada). He was in charge of the Sagax office in Val d'Or (Canada) (field crews supervision, data processing and interpretation).
From 1980 to 1985, Mr. David was a geophysicist for Geomines Ltd., a geoservice company based in Montreal (now merged with Tecsult International). During these years, Mr. David operated mainly as a field geophysicist for mineral exploration in the Abitibi Belt, northwestern Quebec (Canada) and was in charge of the geophysical surveys for a major groundwater exploration program in the northern Ivory Coast, West Africa.
Mr. David has now been operating for over 20 years in Africa and maintains a presence with operational field crews in a number of North and West African countries.
Mr. David is a registered member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicist (SEG)
M. Pierre Jean LAFLEUR, B. Geol. Eng, Geological Engineer (Resources & Reserves Evaluation, Project development & Management)
Mr. Lafleur graduated as a Geological Engineer in 1976 from Montreal Polytechnical School. He subsequently completed his training in Civil Engineering (1977) and Logistics (1979) at same Polytechnical School, University of Montreal, Canada.
Mr. Lafleur’s fields of speciality are essentially in the Evaluation & Management of Mineral Resources with a strong input from computer sciences. He has been applying his expertise to a large number of ore deposits and operating mines, leading him to collaborate with more than fifty (50) mining companies worldwide.
Mr. Lafleur is routinely involved in :
Quality Control &
Reserves Estimates :
Drilling, sampling, mapping &
geological interpretation
Database validation & quality
control (Statistics)
Computer modelling (3D) with Gemcom,
Geostat, AutoCAD and more...
Geostatistics : block models,
Inverse distance, Kriging (OK/IK)
Control, up date of
reserves & Feasibility study.
Computer sciences :
software development, support, training & courses (GIS).
Financial Analysis : NSR (Net income), cash-flow and
capital cost/expenditure
Project & Property evaluation
: geological report, financing & acquisition
Commodities:
Gold & Silver, base metals, iron & industrial minerals
Management adviser: partnership, corporate restructuring,
strategic planning
Mr. Lafleur has been a mine and exploration geologist for over 10 years, and has since been operating as an independent consultant for over 10 years. He is an Authority in the field of mineral resources & mining project economics evaluation.
Mr. Lafleur is a registered member of the Quebec Engineers Corporation (Canada).
Taboua Valentin SELA - PROFILE
Taboua Valentin SELA, BTS Earth Sciences (Survey operator & Supervision)
Mr. Valentin Sela graduated in Earth Sciences from the University Institute of Technology of Dakar in 1982.
Since then, he has been employed and contracted by a large number of exploration and mining companies in Western and Central Africa, developping a broad expertise in all aspect of mineral exploration technology, including prospecting, geochemical and geophysical surveys, trenching and drilling.
Among the companies & organisations he worked for: BRGM, SODEMI, Eden Rock Minerals, Incanore Resources, SouthernEra Resources, Managem.