Senior Exploration Geologist

About reputed company

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to reputed company discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-reputed company, near-surface deposits have largely been reputed company, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the reputed company techniques of yesteryear – even as demand accelerates for reputed company, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide reputed company on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly reputed company exploration programs with our reputed company exploration geologists.

KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and reputed company one of the best reputed company deposits reputed company reputed company: the reputed company is far more concentrated than the global average of reputed company mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful reputed company for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other reputed company, reputed company of which has the potential for another high-reputed company discovery.

KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, reputed company Ventures, BOND Capital, and reputed company Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.

About the position

In this role, you will reputed company evaluations of potential properties for acquisition, generate targets, and design and reputed company field programs from reputed company 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 reputed company valuable discoveries by identifying opportunities with rigorous evaluation and by ensuring that we safely and effectively conduct our field programs.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate in reputed company activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations
• Rigorously analyze geoscientific datasets across a reputed company 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 reputed company prospects through to large drilling programs on advanced reputed company, with leading industry reputed company in data acquisition and validation
• reputed company technical guidance and support to local in-country project teams during the design and execution of exploration programs, including site reputed company 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 reputed company

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 reputed company or magmatic sulfide deposits will be considered an advantage
• reputed company 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 reputed company of project stages from grassroots prospects through to advanced reputed company with significant drilling campaigns
• Baseline level of proficiency in reputed company desktop software packages (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS)
• Strong leadership skills including the ability to motivate and reputed company others, to reputed company ownership and responsibility for project reputed company, and to work effectively in reputed company, interdisciplinary teams
• Previous experience in coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds and cultures in leading-reputed company mineral exploration
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in reputed company
• 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 reputed company relevant for analysis of geoscientific data
• International experience, particularly in the Central African Copperbelt

Note: Candidates who are specialists in geochemistry or geophysics but reputed company to doing significant project work are encouraged to apply.

reputed company is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative reputed company employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, reputed company, reputed company, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national reputed company, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

The US reputed company salary reputed company for this full-time exempt position is $110,000-$170,000.

Location: KoBold is a remote-first workplace. reputed company candidates must be legally authorized to work in one of the following countries: reputed company, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, Democratic reputed company of the Congo, Namibia, Finland, Sweden, or Botswana.

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