From exploration to closure, Marco Keersemaker has more than 25 years’ experience in all aspects of mining, spanning a huge range of commodities. With responsibility for resource modelling, mine planning and design, operations, cost/ NPV modelling and benchmarking, the hands-on experience Marco brings to Norge Mining as Mine and Techno-Economic Modelling Manager is impressive. A former site and mine manager, he’s in tune with world-class standards in Health and Safety and operations. Among many others, he’s worked for BHP Billiton on projects in Guinea and Suriname. More recently, he’s been consulting for Aluminpro and teaching at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.