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About
Georeference Online Ltd
Georeference Online Ltd is
a privately held company
incorporated in British
Columbia, and operating
from Vancouver.
It is managed and staffed
by professionals
experienced in the natural
resources and computing
industries, as well as in
corporate management.
Clinton Smyth P.Geo
President and
Director
Clinton is a geologist and software developer with
40 years of experience in minerals exploration,
resource evaluation and mining, 25 of those with the
Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. He
began his career as a De Beers Consolidated Mines
student at the University of Cape Town in 1974,
moving to the Anglo American Corporation with a
BSc (Hons) in geochemistry in 1978. He served Anglo
American in diverse roles throughout Africa and
Australasia. In 1985 he was sent by Anglo to
Imperial College, London, to study artificial
intelligence applications in geology, and in 1996 he
moved to Singapore to establish Anglo’s exploration
presence in that region. During his career with
Anglo he held various responsibilities in exploration
geochemistry, resource evaluation, software
development and corporate management.
In 2000, as Vice President (Exploration) in
Johannesburg, he resigned from Anglo American to
establish Georeference Online Ltd in Vancouver.
<Current CV>
In 2017, Georeference Online Ltd. sold its artificial
intelligence software and intellectual property to
Minerva Intelligence Inc., where Clinton assumed
the position of CEO. In May, 2019, Minerva was
listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the
symbol MVAI. In November, 2019, Minerva won the
INSPIRE Challenge in Helsink, Finland, for its AI-
based lanslide hazard map of the Veneto region in
Italy. In 2020 Clinton hosted and presented in a 90
minute workshop on artificial intelligence at the
INSPIRE 2020 Conference in Dubrovnik (reference
below). In 2022 Clinton left Minerva and Minerva
sold its economic geology software and development
team to Bentley Systems for incorporation into
Seequent’s LeapFrog system.
In 2021, Redton Resources Inc., a private exploration
company Clinton co-founded in 2005, optioned its
Heath-Falcon copper property in British Columbia to
Antofagasta PLC, one of Chile's largest copper
mining companies. He managed the exploration of
that property until March, 2024 when Antofagasta
relinquished their option on the property.
Chris Ahern
Software Systems
Manager
Chris is a software engineer with 25 years
experience, ranging from the administration of
back-end Unix and Windows servers and databases,
to front-end web development. After graduating
from the University of Natal, South Africa, he
started his career in the telecommunications
industry, first with Telkom South Africa and later at
MTN, a large mobile carrier in South Africa. After
moving to Vancouver, he worked in a small
consulting firm installing and configuring wholesale
billing solutions for various telecom companies
around the world. His broad range of experience is
well suited to our work at Georeference Online,
where, since 2008, he has developed and supported
our CampControl system, together with our artificial
intelligence applications in minerals exploration and
GIS.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Clinton Smyth and Tatjana Krzman “Terminology,
Translation and Artificial Intelligence”; Paper
presented at the International Federation of
Translators (FIT) Congress in Varadero, Cuba, in
June, 2022
Clinton Smyth et al “Leveraging INSPIRE Data into
Artificial Intelligence Applications”; Workshop
presented together with David Poole, Gio Roberti
and Matthew Harrison; Dubrovnik, June, 2020.
https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/conference2020/webi
nars/leveraging-inspire-data-artificial-intelligence-
applications [Pdf slides and 90 minute video]
Clinton Smyth “Artificial Intelligence and INSPIRE:
Leveraging the INSPIRE Code Lists” Presentation to
the INSPIRE 2018 Conference, Antwerp, Belguim,
Video ; Presentation pdf
Clinton Smyth and Cornelius Dekker “NI43-101
Technical Report on the Tatogga Lake Gold/Copper
Project, British Columbia, Canada” 22 July, 2016.
Comissioned by Manera Capital Corporation (now GT
Gold Corp.) Filed on www.sedar.com This report
documents the discovery of the Saddle South gold
deposit, which, together with the associated Saddle
North copper-gold porphyry deposit, was purchased
from GT Gold by Newmont for US$311 million in
2021.
Clinton Smyth “NI43-101 Technical Report on the
Balabag Gold Project, Zamboanga Province,
Philippines” 23 June, 2012. Commissioned by TVI
Resource Development Phils. Inc. Filed on
www.sedar.com
Clinton Smyth “Lithology Classification: Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow”; Mira Geoscience Conference,
Montreal; October, 2012
Clinton Smyth "Vocabulary/Semantics
Standardisation in Earth Sciences"; EarthCube
Semantics and Ontologies Workshop, Ballston,
Virginia; April, 2012
Jacek Kisynski and Clinton Smyth “Probabilistic
Description, Modeling and Similarity-Ranking of
Mineral Deposit Zones”; Accelerate BC /MITACS
research report; June, 2011
Steve Williams and Clinton Smyth "The emerging
study of geometallurgy – what is it and where might
it go?" Process Mineralogy Conference, Antofagasta;
November, 2010
Rita Sharma, David Poole and Clinton Smyth, A
Framework for Ontologically-Grounded Probabilistic
Matching, International Journal of Approximate
Reasoning, 51(2), 240-262, January 2010.
David Poole, Clinton Smyth and Rita Sharma
“Ontology Design for Scientific Theories That Make
Probabilistic Predictions” IEEE Intelligent Systems,
Special Issue on Semantic Scientific Knowledge
Integration - Jan/Feb 2009, pages 27-36
Lionel E. Jackon, Jr., Clinton P. Smyth and David
Poole, HazardMatch: An application of artificial
intelligence to landslide susceptibility mapping,
Howe Sound area, British Columbia, in J. Locat, D.
Perret, D. Turmel, D. Demers et S. Leroueil (eds.)
Proceedings of the 4th Canadian Conference on
Geohazards : From Causes to Management. Presse de
l’Université Laval, Québec, 2008.
Clinton Smyth “Enabling Semantic Interoperability
between Mineral Deposit Descriptions from Different
Provincial Databases” CGKN/GeoConnections report
for the Geological Survey of Canada; 2003
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” (Aristotle, 350BCE)