Jean-Michel (J-M) Rendu is an independent consultant supplying services to the international mining industry. J-M retired from Newmont Mining Corporation in 2001 as vice president of resources and mine planning with worldwide responsibility for corporate and mine-site mining engineering activities, and for estimation and reporting of resources and reserves. Before joining Newmont, J-M was an associate consultant with Golder Associates; an assistant professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison; head of operations research with Anglovaal, Johannesburg, South Africa; and systems analyst with Kennecott Copper Corporation.
J-M graduated from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne in 1966 and obtained M.S. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York. He authored more than 50 technical papers on deposit modeling, mine engineering, estimation of resources and reserves, and U.S. and international regulatory requirements for public reporting. He is the author of An Introduction to Geostatistical Methods of Mineral Evaluation, published by the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1978 (second edition, 1981) and An Introduction to Cut-off Grade Estimation, published by SME in 2008 (second edition, 2014).
