Khairulla Aben is a Mining Engineering professional with diverse experience in the Mining Industry at open-pit, underground and in-situ leaching operations of different commodities, like uranium, copper, gold, iron ore, tin etc. He is a State Reserves Committee’s Independent Advisor and a Competent Person as per JORC standards.

Khairulla possesses a Ph.D. degree in Mining from Kazakh National Research Technical University (Kazakhstan), M.Sc. from California Coast University (USA) and B.Eng. from Laurentian University (Canada); and to date has published more than 20 papers in journals and conferences of Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Australia and USA.