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Tsodilo Resources Limited Announces Dr. Alistair Jeffcoate of Rio Tinto named Project Manager / Chief Geologist
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tsodilo Resources Limited Announces Dr. Alistair Jeffcoate of Rio Tinto named Project Manager / Chief GeologistTsodilo Resources Limited Announces Dr. Alistair Jeffcoate of Rio Tinto named Project Manager / Chief Geologist\nToronto, Ontario CANADA, July 24, 2013 /FSC/ - Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), (\"Tsodilo\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that it has hired Dr Alistair B. Jeffcoate as Project Manager / Chief Geologist to lead it metals exploration and resource development  programs, particularly its' iron ore project, in Botswana.  \nDr Jeffcoate has spent his entire professional career with the Rio Tinto group of companies including Rio Tinto Iron Ore Atlantic and Rio Tinto Exploration.  Immediately prior to accepting the position with Tsodilo, Alistair was Senior Geologist at Rio Tinto's Simandou Project, Guinea West Africa (Iron Ore) where his key responsibilities were coordinating the activities of the large and complex resource evaluation and exploration department. This included planning, coordinating, and implementing the drilling activities on site for a fleet of up to 11 drill rigs, both reverse circulation (RC) drilling and diamond drilling (DD). Under Alistair's co-leadership the department developed leading practices via continuous improvement initiatives in many areas such as characterisation of ore and waste, QA/QC and database validation protocols. Alistair also has experience of technical project management, mentoring, training, reporting, brownfield exploration, geological modelling, resource estimation and product prediction work.\nAlistair's career at Rio Tinto began as project and exploration geologist at Simandou and between his postings on the Simandou project he was rewarded with the opportunity to go on an 18 month secondment with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to work on their iron ore operations. Firstly working as a mine geologist at the Greater Paraburdoo mines and then later as project geologist on the Koodaideri evaluation project. Alistair's responsibilities included in pit grade control and block out procedures, reconciliation, H+S representative, project supervision of a multi rig drill program, and ore body knowledge. \nIn addition to his extensive and multi-disciplinary work history, Dr. Jeffcoate holds a...