Jan Smolen, MASc, Principal Consultant, P.Geo, MAusIMM is an experienced mine and exploration geologist with over 35 years of experience in mine geology and exploration planning and management. He has worked on a wide range of commodities including coal, gold, nickel, PGM, copper, base metals, and industrial minerals. He specializes in exploration project management, from grass roots exploration to banking feasibility studies, including a QA/QC and resources estimating. Mr. Smolen worked for the Murcki Coal Mine in Poland as the Senior Mine Geologist for over eight years (12979-1987) and in the Polish State Mining Authority for one year (1988) overseeing mines and exploration projects including resources estimating and management. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Smolen served as a Senior Geologist responsible for exploration, data collection, data interpretation, resources estimating, and peer review and as a QP for NI43-101 with Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited. His areas of expertise include evaluations of coal projects in North America, China, and Mongolia. From January 2011 to November 2013 he has worked at SRK China as Principal Geologies and Coal Group Manager. He has managed several projects the Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, China as well as in Mongolia.
Below is a list of recent (2011-2015) projects:
Project Manager and CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate of Tiziyan Coal Project, Guizhou, China.
Project Manager QA/QC Procedures for Peabody exploration program, Xinjiang, China.
CP for Technical Review on Coal Mine projects in Erdos, Inner Mongolia, China.
Project Manager for QA/QC and Resource Estimate of Huahong Coal Mines in Xinjiang, China.
Project Manager for a Technical Review on the Khar Tolgoi Project, Mongolia.
Project Manager and QP for Khar Tolgoi NI43-101 Technical Report.
QP for technical review on the Mogoin Gol coking coal deposit, Khuvsgul, Mongolia.
Project Manager and CP for a Huabei 8550X Coal Project in Mongolia.
Project Manager and CP for a Coal Mine in Baolige, China.
Project Manager and CP for a Matrass Shuran Coal Project in Kyrgyzstan.
Project Manager and CP for a Xiehua Coal QA/QC in Inner Mongolia, China.
CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate for Fu Woo Injatama coal project in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia.
CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate for Inner Mongolia Yidong Coal Group Co., Ltd project of a 12 Coal Mine IPO in Inner Mongolia, China.
CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate for Guizhou 3 Coal Mines and CBM Due Diligence.
CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate for Union Group Guizhou Coal and CBM HKEx IPO.
CP for QA/QC and Resource Estimate for Indonesia Merge Coal ITR Update.
