Learn about rare earths!

Speaker - Phillip Hellman

Phillip has worked extensively in the rare earths industry including completing the resource studies that were the basis of Lynas's Mt Weld mining operation that commenced in 2007. He has worked on numerous rare earth deposits throughout the world and is the author of various specialist academic and applied papers on rare earth deposits. He has presented to EURARE, the European rare earth industry's specialist organisation. 

Phillip graduated in Geology at Sydney University and then completed a PhD in rare earth geochemistry and high pressure petrology at Macquarie and Cambridge universities. He then worked in mineral exploration including three years based in West Sumatra. Since 1992 Phillip worked as a consultant specialising in Resource Estimation for numerous commodities with a focus on rare earths.

His recent work has been in the technical evaluation of emerging rare earth projects on behalf of potential lenders and offtake partners. He is also assisting companies with their advanced evaluation of "Ionic Adsorption Deposits", a comparatively new style of rare earth mineralisation."