Full name:
Dr Godknows Njowa
Position:
Principal/Partner – Mining Engineer at EY
Date and place of birth: 04th June 1978, Harare, Zimbabwe
Qualifications:
Pr.Eng; PhD (Mineral Asset Valuation); MSc (Mineral Resources Management); BSc Hons (Mining Engineering); Grad CIS, Certificate in Securities Investment Analysis MSAIMM; FAusIMM, Certified Mineral Appraiser.
Brief career history:
Godknows has considerable experience in the minerals industry, from mine production, mining research, mine planning and optimisation, management accounting, costing analysis and project feasibility studies of various commodities, including PGMs, Au, Ni and Coal. His mining career started in 2000, at Rio Tinto Zimbabwe’s gold mines, where he worked in various capacities. This gave Godknows a solid understanding of mining and the evaluation of mining projects. His key areas of expertise lie in a combination of skills, including technical and financial analysis, mining engineering, financial and management accounting, and corporate governance. Mineral asset valuation, compliance and public reporting of mineral assets for the various stock exchange jurisdictions are his core focus areas. Together with experience in both technical and corporate finance, he has consolidated his expertise in the detailed financial valuation of mineral and mining projects and have completed a PhD in mineral asset valuation and financial reporting.
Interaction/activities that you take part in within the SAIMM:
Member of SAMREC/SAMVAL working group and various subgroups; Member of ESG Committee, Chairman of the Mining Engineering code of practice for ECSA.
What do you foresee yourself contributing to within the SAIMM? :
Encouraging more SAIMM members who are engineers to register as professional engineers with ECSA; Continue contributing to the planning and organising some of the SAIMM conferences, schools and actively participating the SAMREC/SAMVAL working group in the development public reporting codes and guidelines.
Other information the members should know:
I have special interests in the public reporting of mineral assets and their valuation, with focus on the following codes and standards:- International Accounting Standards (IAS), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), South African Code for the Reporting of Mineral Resources and Reserves (SAMREC Code) and the current code The South African Code for the Valuation of mineral projects (SAMVAL Code). I lecture on a number of postgraduate courses at University of the Witwatersrand.
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