高级勘探地质学家
Senior Exploration Geologist
公司简介
未来几十年，我们的世界需要更多关键矿物，包括铜、锂和钴，以建设电力基础设施、车辆、数据中心和电子产品。由于易于发现的浅层矿床大多已被发现，采矿行业每美元勘探支出的发现数量比30年前减少了10倍。
KoBold 是领先的科学矿产勘探、矿山开发和技术开发公司。我们的目标是将矿产勘探转化为可重复的科学，通过整合人工智能、人类智慧和新技术，发现世界所需的矿物。我们由数据科学家、工程师和地质学家组成的跨学科团队共同构建数据系统、设计新型传感器，并建立行业领先的流程，在我们的勘探项目中开发和测试地下预测。
我们的首次发现是赞比亚的 Mingomba 高品位铜矿，其勘探成本远低于行业平均水平。我们以同样的技术严谨性来开发 Mingomba。Mingomba 团队汇聚了矿山和加工工程师、地质学家、数据科学家、软件工程师以及社区、健康与安全、建筑和运营专家。通过结合行业知识和尖端技术，我们将 Mingomba 打造成一个世界级项目，为自身、合作伙伴和社区带来更安全、更可预测的结果。预计这将为几代人创造数千个优质岗位。
KoBold 在八个国家开展勘探计划，均具有再次发现的潜力。
KoBold 为私人持有；投资者包括机构资产管理公司 T. Rowe Price 和加拿大养老基金投资公司；科技风险投资公司 Andreessen Horowitz、Breakthrough Energy Ventures、BOND Capital、Durable Capital、StepStone 和 Standard Investments；以及战略自然资源公司 BHP 和三菱。
职位介绍
在此职位上，您将负责评估潜在资产的收购机会，生成目标区域，并从目标定义到资源扩展，设计并监督现场计划。您将作为跨学科团队的一员，与数据科学家密切合作，利用 KoBold 的技术帮助指导我们的现场计划和决策。您还将直接与我们的高级技术顾问以及高管团队合作。
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About the company
In the coming decades, our world needs far more critical minerals including copper, lithium, and cobalt, to build electric infrastructure, vehicles, data centers, and electronics. The mining industry is making 10x fewer discoveries per dollar spent on exploration compared to 30 years ago because the easy-to-find, near surface deposits have largely been discovered.
KoBold is the leading scientific mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company. Our goal is to turn mineral exploration into a repeatable science to discover the minerals the world needs—by integrating artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. Our multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and geologists work together to build data systems, design new sensors, and establish industry-leading workflows to develop and test subsurface predictions on our exploration projects.
Our first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia, found after spending materially less than industry average. We are developing Mingomba with the same technical rigor that we apply to exploration. The Mingomba team brings together mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, and community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists. By combining industry knowledge and cutting edge technology, we are developing Mingomba into a world class project that has safer and more predictable outcomes for ourselves, partners, and communities. It is expected to create thousands of good jobs for generations.
KoBold runs exploration programs in eight countries, all with the potential for another discovery.
KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and strategic natural resources companies BHP and Mitsubishi.
About the position
In this role, you will lead evaluations of potential properties for acquisition, generate targets, and design and oversee field programs from target definition through to resource expansion. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will work closely with data scientists, using KoBold’s technology to help guide our field programs and decision-making. You will also work directly with our senior technical advisors and with the executive team on making the investment case for acquisitions and field programs.
Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by identifying opportunities with rigorous evaluation and by ensuring that we safely and effectively conduct our field programs.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate in all activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations
- Rigorously analyze geoscientific datasets across a range of scales from provinces to prospects to determine exploration potential and to identify, rank, and prioritize exploration targets
- Design, budget, permit, and execute field programs ranging from geological mapping and sampling of grass roots prospects through to large drilling programs on advanced projects, with leading industry practice in data acquisition and validation
- Provide technical guidance and support to local in-country project teams during the design and execution of exploration programs, including site visits and engagement with other project stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, regulatory authorities, and joint venture partners)
- Work collaboratively with data scientist colleagues to conceive and implement insightful analytical methods
Qualifications
A great Senior Exploration Geologist candidate will have:
- Strong technical knowledge of one or more ore deposit types. Experience working on sediment-hosted stratiform copper or magmatic sulfide deposits will be considered an advantage
- Excellence in generative analysis ranging from new concepts to integration, interpretation, and modeling of large datasets
- Good field skills and experience conducting field programs across a range of project stages from grassroots prospects through to advanced projects with significant drilling campaigns
- Baseline level of proficiency in standard desktop software packages (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS)
- Strong leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
- Previous experience in coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds and cultures in leading-practice mineral exploration
- Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace
- A minimum of 10 years experience in the mineral exploration industry
It is helpful but not required to have:
- Working knowledge of one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, R, C/C++)
- Knowledge of geostatistics and/or other statistical methods relevant for analysis of geoscientific data
- International experience, particularly in the Central African Copperbelt
Note: Candidates who are specialists in geochemistry or geophysics but open to doing significant project work are encouraged to apply.
What to Expect
Joining KoBold means getting the opportunity for hands-on exposure to our exploration projects around the world. All employees are expected to travel to project sites, with a minimum of one week per year. Field-facing and technical roles spend significantly more time in the field.
KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $110,000-$170,000.
Location: KoBold is a remote-first workplace. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Finland, Sweden, or Botswana.
Originally posted on Himalayas