Michele Anthony

Antony is Regional Director for the MSA Group and heads their UK office with responsibilities including Europe and the Middle East. He is a Mining/Exploration Geologist by background with more than 25 years of professional experience in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Antony has extensive experience of working on government-funded projects in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Republic of the Sudan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, and UAE. He has also worked for private clients on commissioned projects throughout the world including in Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ghana, Armenia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.

In recent years Antony has led several projects in Saudi Arabia assisting the government by helping to promote their mineral resources to potential investors. He has also previously led major development aid-funded and national government-funded work in central Asia and east Africa, in particular Afghanistan and Sudan.
 

Antony started his career as an Exploration and Mining Geologist in South Africa where he worked on a variety of gold mines on the West Witwatersrand before moving to precious metal exploration in the eastern Bushveld, and then as a geologist at an underground platinum mine. He has an interest in precious metal mineralisation, particularly magmatic PGM deposits, as well as gold and base-metal deposits.