Maptek Hall of Fame

2021 Hall of Fame

Allan Schappert

Senior Resource Geologist,
Stantec

Allan started in the mining industry more than 40 years ago, as an exploration geologist then an underground mine production geologist.

After encouragement from his wife and a desire for warmer weather, he moved to Freeport where he was the team lead who introduced Vulcan into the Freeport Indonesia operation.

He left there to use Vulcan for resource estimation at the developing Turquoise Ridge mine in Nevada. After Getchell was purchase by Placer Dome Allan worked for Harry Parker at MRDI and was using Vulcan to build resource models throughout North and South America.

In 2001 Allan moved to the Stillwater Mine in Montana and took responsibility for developing resource models for both mining complexes in production. In 2005 Allan left Stillwater to join then McIntosh Engineering, now Stantec Consulting, and is using Vulcan on mining projects located around the world.