Graham Begg is a world-leader in interpreting multi-disciplinary geoscience data at the regional to continental scale.

After an early career in mining geology, a PhD connecting giant epithermal gold mineralisation in the Pacific Rim with tectonic evolution, and a mid-career focused on global exploration with legendary explorer Western Mining Corporation, in 2002 he initiated a collaborative research effort with the GEMOC Key Centre at Macquarie University to create the world’s first detailed map of the global continental mantle and crust.

He founded Minerals Targeting International (now LithoAtlas Geoscience) in 2007 and commercialised the ongoing research outputs as the GLAM Product, designed to create a breakthrough in minerals exploration success. He has continued to fund and participate in collaborative research and combined with extensive in-house development has created the leading 4 dimensional framework of Earth’s continents. He is the author of multiple highly-cited publications on the connection between continental lithosphere architecture and evolution, geodynamics, and the mineral systems responsible for ore deposit formation.

Study of the structure and metamorphism of the Bohemian Massif led Aleksandra to focus on the geodynamic evolution of the Variscan and Alpine orogenic belts as an assistant professor at the University of Adam Mickiewicz. This expanded into processing and reinterpretation of seismic data as leader of a collaborative project with the exploration industry on the structural control of the Germanic Basin in Poland.

After moving to Australia, she joined LithoAtlas Geoscience in 2019, upscaling to global mapping and resolving the evolution of Earth’s crust in time and space. Aleksandra applies her passion for excellence in science to growing her multi-disciplinary skills, working across scales and connecting geology to geodynamics.

Caroline is an economic geologist with experience in a range of commodities and deposit types, including komatiitic Ni, BIF-hosted Fe, orogenic Au, IOCG, porphyry Cu and sediment-hosted Cu. She was educated at the University of Cambridge, the Royal School of Mines and the University of Western Australia and has worked across both government (CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, James Cook University) and private (Western Mining Corporation, BHP) sectors.

She is passionate about applying ore-genetic understanding to solving practical problems across the business value stream, from exploration targeting to mineral processing, and has been involved in the construction of mineral systems frameworks to underpin exploration for a number of critical minerals. She has published widely and in 2022 was appointed the Regional Vice President’s Lecturer for the Society of Economic Geologists.

After more than a decade at the cutting edge of research on the continental mantle with the world-renowned GEMOC ARC National Key Centre and CCFS ARC Centre of Excellence at Macquarie University, Jinxiang Huang joined LithoAtlas Geoscience as a geologist focused on the integration of multi-disciplinary crustal and mantle information. Following a two-year stint with the exploration team at Vault Minerals, Jinxiang rejoined the LithoAtlas team in 2024 where she continues to apply her outstanding drive and skillset to the issue of lithospheric architecture and evolution.

Eliza is an economic geologist with a broad range of multi-commodity experience. Following two years with Newexco as an Ni/Au exploration geologist in the Forrestania Greenstone Belt, Eliza completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Exploration Targeting. Her thesis on the genesis of IOCG and Cu-Au deposits in the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil, integrated detailed petrography, micro-characterisation, isotope geology and geochronology to unravel the timing and paragenetic history of Cu-Au mineralisation. Following three years at RSC consulting on multidisciplinary projects incorporating diverse geological, geochemical, and geophysical datasets across scales and commodities (Cu, Au, Li, Ni, Mn, REE and iron-ore) Eliza joined the LithoAtlas team in 2024.

Following a Masters degree in Antarctic research, Jeni joined AngloGold Ashanti where over 16 years she developed a skillset spanning mine-scale investigations to global-scale greenfields exploration.  She played a pivotal role in defining, modelling and expanding the giant Tropicana gold resource, and tied local to regional-scale geophysical and geological datasets into a coherent framework for exploration targeting in regions such as the Albany-Fraser Orogen and the Yilgarn Craton amongst others.

She has been involved with and led multiple projects interpreting seismic reflection data and has targeted, reviewed and assessed the merits of multiple grassroots-advanced exploration projects within Australia and elsewhere. Jeni currently operates through her business “SavAuge Geological” as an exploration consultant with a 2-3 day loading for LithoAtlas Geoscience, solely focused on advancing the LithoAtlas Deposits Database.