COSMO — Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory

Arja Jewbali is Head, Resource Management, Global with Newmont Mining Corporation. Arja is a Geostatistician with close to 20 years of technical experience in the application of advanced geostatistical methods for resource modeling in the gold, base metals, and iron ore mining industries. Arja started her career with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in a number of positions including Resource Geologist and Senior Geostatistician. Arja has a B.S in Geology from the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and a PhD in Geostatistics from the University of Queensland in Australia. She has co-authored multiple papers on geostatistics and resource modeling. She has a specific interest in the application of advanced innovative geostatistical techniques for quantification of resource uncertainty and its corresponding impact on mine planning.