Matt has a background in international finance and banking, and most recently in horticultural operations. Matt’s primary role is to ensure client needs are being met and to improve RDCL internal business systems.  Our business is simple, but our teams are spread and staffing can be complicated.  Mat will look after client and staff needs..

Guy Boaz, Mining Engineer, Underground Coal specialist, Principal (Westport office)

Guy is a Mining Engineer with 20 years’ industry experience.  Guy has worked in underground coal mining on the New Zealand West Coast, South Africa and in Queensland, Australia.  Guy was recently confirmed as a Chartered Professional Engineer practicing in the field of Mining Engineering and a Chartered Professional through the AusIMM system. 

Christchurch office has been strengthened in recognition of our growing workload in CPT investigations in the City, and in the fact that Christchurch is really the most mining centric major center in New Zealand.

Susan Tulloch, Senior Water Scientist, PhD (Christchurch office)

Susan joins our Christchurch operation, allowing us to extend our capabilities into water quality management.  Susan has expertise in Integrated Water Management including; policy development, freshwater availability, and stakeholder consultation. 

David Wright, Engineering Geologist (Christchurch office)

David Wright is an Engineering Geologist and QA/QC and CPT specialist has also joined our Christchurch office in late October.  David is an experienced
operator in geotechnical investigation and analyse and also coal geology.  We look forward to David developing into his new role and improving our client interaction and support.

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference,” said Winston Churchill.

The best way to develop a positive and active attitude is to lead by example.  Use constructive motivation, acknowledge success, use optimistic language to construct and sell real vision, foster leaders and ownership.  Sinking the sinkers – individuals who engage in corrosive behaviour is vital to creating a high performing and creative team.

Our ‘get in there’ approach sees us drive projects with commitment to do deliver the best for our clients.  You won’t ever catch us leaning on a shovel, looking skywards.

We have many interesting projects on the go.  One of the most intriguing is CPT investigations to assess liquefaction susceptibility for dredged sand piles in the Fly River, as a result of tailings disposal from the OkTedi mine. The job is for Klohn Crippen Berger Pty Ltd (KCB), Australia, a successful geotechnical firm founded in Canada.   KCB has the job to undertake the work with RDCL supplying the testing services. This is a strong “partnering” model by which both companies stand to benefit.

The job is expected to start in mid-June with Reuben and Gareth heading the site effort.  We look forward to their “war stories”!

RDCL only recruit highly focused professionals who are nimble thinkers with initiative and drive.  We believe individuals and team dynamics are critical factors in constructing and maintaining beliefs, which, in turn regulate performance.

Principal Geologist
NZ born David Reynolds joins our Havelock North office from Welkom, South Africa where he has been living for thirty years.  It is an honour for RDCL to recruit a senior geologist of David’s calibre and experience, and to bring him home to NZ.

David has twenty years’ geological experience in the mining sector, mostly working for the “majors”.  He brings valuable discipline and project evaluation skills in mine project generation including financial analyses.  His commodity experience is primarily in sediment hosted deposits, mostly around gold in the deep fields of South Africa.  He has extensive knowledge of target definition, detailed sedimentary analyses, Assay laboratory audits, feasibility and pre-feasibility studies.

We are excited about the additional capacity David’s appointment gives RDCL and we proudly welcome home an expat.

Principal Geotechnical and Mining Engineer
Evangelos Georgopolous has a first degree in Mining Engineering, and an MSc in Design and Construction of Underground Works.  Evangelos’ experience is a technical engineer with significant experiences in geotechnical modelling for stress and displacement analysis, geotechnical monitoring and rock mass behaviour testing.

Evangelos has completed tunnel and structural designs for mining projects, foundation designs for oil refineries, wastewater management and treatment plant designs on Greek islands and geotechnical projects in Lithuania and Romania.

Evangelos is an experienced, technical engineer.  We welcome and look forward to his addition to our team.  He builds on our existing underground and geotechnical capability, adds mining engineering strength and again, adds analytical, design and operational discipline.

Geotechnical Engineer
Jonathan Garelick joins us from the UK.   Jonathan’s diverse geotechnical background adds greater weight to RDCL’s service offering.  Jonathan has worked with waste water, safe methods of land filling heavy metals, reservoir design, building design and pressure control zones.

Lead Field Geologist
Ryan McPeek joined RDCL from the Bowen Basin where he previously worked for a well known geological and geotechnical firm.  Extremely motivated, organised and capable Ryan has joined the field crew supervising coal (Waikato) and now copper (Philippines) drilling operations.

Lead Geophysicist
Gareth Hay joined RDCL in late May to provide Geophysical Services in Downhole testing to the company.  Gareth is well known in New Zealand and considered a reliable and accurate operator in downhole acquisition.  Gareth is based in Havelock North, but with projects throughout New Zealand and the Philippines, he expects to travel.

Our projects with key Philippine clients were profiled in a recent edition of The Oceania, ANCHAM’s newsletter.  We are very grateful for our many clients in the Philippines who support and engage RDCL on exciting and complex projects.  This involvement sees us form strong relationships with Philippine based companies and work alongside each other to boost mineral development to the country’s advantage.

Congratulations to Peter Church, Principal Geologist who was recently confirmed as an AusIMM Chartered Professional in Geology – CP (Geology).  This represents commitment, industry credibility, support and the demonstrated ability to step outside normal work parameters to ‘do more’. The AusIMM Chartered Professional (CP) Accreditation program provides formal recognition of members who actively engage in Continuing Professional Development and Education – each year.  There are only 14 other AusIMM Chartered Professionals in New Zealand and RDCL has two of them.  New Zealand as a rule, needs more.

RDCL has joined Straterra, the collective NZ voice of the resource sector. The goal of the resource sector is to be recognised as a responsible and significant contributor to the NZ economy, NZ mining, the NZ Brand and to the environmental values held so highly by all NZers.  Principles RDCL are 100% behind.

These tools are digital, smart, fast and deliver meticulous detail.  We like that!

ATV services are being developed in conjunction with our partner GXD Exploration & Drilling supplies (www.gxdsupply.com). GXD is a high growth services company based in Manila, backing Philippine mining growth by making significant investment in the acquisition of this leading edge technology. RDCL will supply technical and operating services to support the ATV.

As far as we understand it, this will be the only ATV based permanently in Asia. We understand the Televiewer will be in Manila around mid-June.  We look forward to working with GXD and our clients in the delivery of this new offering.

The Acoustic Televiewer (ATV) is the digital age addition to measurement of structural orientations in a drillhole.  The televiewer generates an image of the borehole wall by transmitting ultrasound pulses from a rotating sensor and records the amplitude and travel time of the signals reflected at the interface between mud and formation (borehole wall).

A brand new Downhole Acquisition System has also been ordered by RDCL for the New Zealand market.  Our domestic capability will initially include Dual-Spaced Density, Natural Gamma, Caliper, Guard Resistivity and Full-Waveform Sonic in boreholes up to 1000m depth.  It is a versatile system that we can add further instruments to if required and it’s all helicopter-portable.  The system has a lead time of 60 to 90 days so we hope to have this capability up and running in August.

In the meantime, we may be able to work hire equipment for your project so please ask us should you wish to engage geophysical services.

These tools are digital, smart, fast and deliver meticulous detail.  We like that!

ATV services are being developed in conjunction with our partner GXD Exploration & Drilling supplies (www.gxdsupply.com). GXD is a high growth services company based in Manila, backing Philippine mining growth by making significant investment in the acquisition of this leading edge technology. RDCL will supply technical and operating services to support the ATV.

As far as we understand it, this will be the only ATV based permanently in Asia. We understand the Televiewer will be in Manila around mid-June.  We look forward to working with GXD and our clients in the delivery of this new offering.

The Acoustic Televiewer (ATV) is the digital age addition to measurement of structural orientations in a drillhole.  The televiewer generates an image of the borehole wall by transmitting ultrasound pulses from a rotating sensor and records the amplitude and travel time of the signals reflected at the interface between mud and formation (borehole wall).

A brand new Downhole Acquisition System has also been ordered by RDCL for the New Zealand market.  Our domestic capability will initially include Dual-Spaced Density, Natural Gamma, Caliper, Guard Resistivity and Full-Waveform Sonic in boreholes up to 1000m depth.  It is a versatile system that we can add further instruments to if required and it’s all helicopter-portable.  The system has a lead time of 60 to 90 days so we hope to have this capability up and running in August.

In the meantime, we may be able to work hire equipment for your project so please ask us should you wish to engage geophysical services.