Luke Van der Meer

Luke van der Meer is a Professional Geoscientist in the Province of British Columbia and has over 20 years of experience in mineral exploration, mining, and civil engineering. Luke graduated from the university of Otago in New Zealand in 2001 and started his career underground mining with Barrick Gold in Western Australia where technical best practices form the corner stone of mineral exploration, and resource development. He was subsequently involved with numerous successful exploration projects, including Christmas Creek/Cloud break where he was a part of the initial resource drill-out team which contributed to the maiden resource of 2.1Bt Iron Ore, and has also been involved in numerous resource development projects in Canada including Shea Creek, and Raven Horseshoe Uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin. More recently Luke has focused on early-stage project evaluation and generation in the UASA and Canada, for various major and junior clients within his own private consultancy. Recently he has joined the team at Longford Exploration Services where he is spearheading the companies’ efforts in the provision of high-level technical services to boutique clients within the mineral exploration industry in Canada.