Dr. Phillip Hellman is an Associate of Behre Dolbear Australia and an, Associate of H&S Consultants Pty Ltd with more than 40 years of experience as a professional geologist.  Dr Hellman is the former Managing Director of Hellman and Schofield Pty Ltd.  He has worked on numerous primary and ionic adsorption rare earth projects in Australia, Africa, Asia, Brazil, East Timor, India, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and USA. He is the author of various specialist academic and applied papers on rare earth deposits and has presented to the EURARE, the European rare earth industry’s specialist organization.  He is a Competent Person under the JORC Code.

Dr. Hellman undertook postgraduate (PhD) studies in experimental petrology and geochemistry at Macquarie University and University of Cambridge (UK) from 1975 to 1978. Papers from this work were published in a number of journals including Nature, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology and Earth and Planetary Science Letters. A major part of his Ph D was concerned with neutron activation analysis of rare earth elements and electron probe microanalysis. This research resulted in the documentation of the mobility of REE in a variety of geological environments and provided evidence that the then prevailing view of REE largely being immobile during alteration processes required revision.