Iuma Martinez

Iuma is a South African citizen and has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Exploration Geology, an M.Sc in Geochemistry plus a PhD in Civil Engineering and GIS from the University of Cape Town. She is a professional member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions which is a statutory body that monitors the ethical behaviour of its members. Membership of this body is recognized internationally for purposes of competent persons reports used in public listing documents.

Iuma has worked as a GIS specialist for over 16 years in various capacities and for a wide range of applications such as:

• Image processing
• GIS support for diamond and base metal exploration projects
• Determination regional relationships between geological datasets in Botswana and Namibia

As a GIS and Spatial Analyst specialist, Iuma has mostly been involved in diamond exploration and has consulted on projects in most of the Central and Southern African countries, Brazil, Australia and Indonesia.