Jeff Parshley

Group Chairman and Corporate Consultant, SRK Consulting (U.S.), Inc.

Mr. Jeff Parshley is a SRK’s Global Chairman and a Corporate Consultant with more than 37 years of environmental and closure experience in the mining industry including closure planning and closure cost estimates. In addition to planning and analysis work for mines, he has also been involved in the management of several abandoned mines and implementation of actual closure works at several mines in the western United States. He has worked with legal and policy aspects of mining projects since his early career, regularly works on World Bank and IFC compliance projects and is also one of SRK’s most experienced mine closure strategists and regulatory specialists. He has contributed to the development of several regulatory guidelines for mine closure and closure cost estimating and assisted a number of clients develop corporate standards and guidance documents for closure planning, implementation and cost estimating. In 2016, he lead a team that prepared a World Banks sponsored Comparative Study of Financial Mechanisms for Environmental and Social Sustainability of Mine Sites after Closure in Kazakhstan. This study was used by the government in the preparation of a new Subsoil Use Law in Kazakhstan.