Farewell to Wynand Kleingeld (1946 to 2020)
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Farewell to Wynand Kleingeld (1946 to 2020) Malcolm Thurston1 · Niall Young2 · Chris Gordon-Coker3
© International Association for Mathematical Geosciences 2020
Wynand Kleingeld
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Malcolm Thurston [email protected] Niall Young [email protected] Chris Gordon-Coker [email protected]
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De Beers Group, 1601 Airport Road NE, Suite 300, Calgary, AB T2E 6Z8, Canada
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Kleingeld Young and Partners, Michaelmas House Southtown, West Pennard, Somerset BA6 8NS, UK
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De Beers Group, 20 Carlton House Terrace St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AN, UK
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Dr. Wynand Kleingeld was a leader in his field and inspired those he met and worked with. His counsel and wisdom were hugely respected. He embraced life and his storytelling over tea or a single malt, whether at work or at play, will be missed by all who knew him. Wynand passed away on May 28th, 2020, as a result of complications following a heart attack. Wynand was born in Johannesburg on July 17th, 1946. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand where he studied chemistry, physics, mathematics, and statistics, and obtained a BSc (hons) degree in 1969. In 1987, he obtained a PhD in Geostatistics from L’École de Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, one of France’s foremost universities and a world leader in geostatistics and mathematical morphology. After his first degree, Wynand worked for South African Railways, applying his mathematical and statistical abilities to operations research problems. Then followed a stint with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which culminated in an extensive overseas research tour. In 1974, a career change set him on a path for the rest of his life: he joined the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa as an ore evaluation analyst, based at the Consolidated Diamond Mines complex in Oranjemund, Namibia, thus beginning his lifelong association with diamonds. In 1978 he went to work in Kimberley with Tinus Oosterveld at the Ore Evaluation Department, where he was instrumental in applying geostatistical and operations research techniques to the evaluation of diamond deposits. In the late eighties, the Ore Evaluation Department took on work for the wider Anglo American group of companies in other minerals and commodities, and he, consequently, relocated to Johannesburg in 1988. The department was renamed the Mineral Resource Evaluation Department, or MinRED, and continued to expand due to Wynand’s enthusiasm and drive. In 1998, following company restructuring, Wynand’s focus returned to De Beers and diamonds, and a wider brief to develop the holistic philosophy of mineral resource management. This initiative was taken further in 2003 with the creation of a “think tank” in Wells, England. Retiring from De Beers in 2008, he continued as an independent consultant, splitting his time between his Keurbooms home on the South African coast, the West Country of the UK and, most recently, Ireland, where he and his wife Monica enjoyed the beauty and tranquillity of County Done
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