Andy Wilde graduated as a geologist in 1979 and has a blend of 30 years minerals exploration and academic experience specialising in exploration for uranium gold and base-metal deposits worldwide.

He commenced his career with Uranerz Australia PL exploring for uranium in Northern Australia, during which time he began researching unconformity-related uranium deposits, later continuing this work for the degree of PhD at Monash University, completed in 1988. Between 1988 and 1999 Andy was involved in numerous exploration projects with BHP Minerals. In 1997 he was appointed Principal Geologist based in San Francisco and assisted in strategic planning of BHP's global exploration and oversaw project generation for worldwide gold exploration. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Leader of Project Generation for Gold Fields (based in Oxford, UK) focusing on exploration in West Africa, Australia, Canada, Russia and China.

Andy's academic career has included a spell as a lecturer at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and as a senior research fellow at Monash University. In the latter capacity he was project leader of a 3-year $1 million project on the Mount Isa copper deposits for the Predictive Mineral Discovery Co-operative Research Centre (a venture between government, academic institutions and the exploration industry). Pmd-CRC research also included work on Century Zinc and uranium deposits of the Mount Isa inlier.

The services that Andy offers to PGN clients includes:
> Project generation, from initial literature view and critical evaluation to interpretation of remote-sensed and airborne geophysical imagery to GIS-based geospatial analysis and targetting

> Project review, planning and execution. Geological input at the drill-rig and in geological/geochemical evaluation of drilling and other project-specific geoscientific data

> Contract research (for example spectral signature of alteration and use of infra-red spectroscopy in targetting and enhancing drilling programs), critical review of past exploration results etc

>Geoscientific input for prospectuses