Vice President of Project Development and Evaluations
Jess Harding is the VP of Project Development and Evaluations at KoBold Metals. He has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. He specialized in evaluating new investment opportunities and guiding early stage studies (e.g. concept studies, pre-feasibility studies). He started his career with Rio Tinto in the Pilbara, Australia working in operations at Brockman and Mt Tom Price iron ore mines. Moving on to join Ivanhoe Mines at Savage River (Tasmania) and then onto numerous development projects worldwide including Oyu Tolgoi (Mongolia), Kamoa-Kakula (DRC), Platreef (RSA) and Kipushi (DRC).
Jess earned his BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds.