Mike Armitage

Mike has some thirty-five years’ experience in the mining industry. He spent his early career working underground as a geologist in South Africa and then completed his PhD assessing alternative methods of reserve estimation at the Renco Mine in Zimbabwe. He then joined SRK Consulting in 1991 and over the next thirty years held various technical and management roles before leaving in early 2022. These roles included being Managing Director and Chairman of SRK’s UK practice and Chairman of SRK’s Russia and Kazakhstan practices. He also spent six years as Chairman of SRK Global. He is also a founding director of Sarn Helen Gold and is currently a Non-Executive Director of Tertiary Minerals. Mike spent many years as joint course co-ordinator of a MSc in Mineral Resources at Cardiff University and then as external examiner for the MSc in Metals and Energy Finance at Imperial College, University of London. He has also been a council member and Vice President of the Geological Society and is currently Chairman of the Applied Earth Science Division of IOM3 and Honorary Chairman of the Critical Minerals Association.