Dr Frieder Reichhardt has over 25 years of experience in Vanadium-Titanium-Magnetite, PGE-Ni-Cu, chromitite and diamond deposits. He obtained his PhD at the Bushveld Research Institute. Dr Reichhardt has been the author of numerous Competent Person’s Reports on Bushveld vanadiferous titano-magnetite projects for listed companies on the JSE and AIM markets, and for private companies operating in the Bushveld Complex. Dr Reichhardt worked on regional base metal exploration programmes in eastern Botswana for Gold Fields and Rio Tinto, and has provided consulting services on a wide range of mineral deposits including iron ore, Ni-laterite, diamonds, uranium and rare earth elements specifically in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Malawi, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya. He is familiar with all aspects of mineral exploration from target selection, planning and management of exploration programmes, integrating remote sensing and geophysical data, geochemical analysis and interpretation.