Tyler Acorn

Born and raised south of the ice wall, I was sucked into mining at the school of “I love to blow ‘stuff’ up” AKA Missouri University of Science and Technology. I proceeded to spend a number of years in working as a mine engineer in Northern Nevada where I fell in love with the mining dichotomy of down to earth miners and using science and engineering to plan as far into the future as possible, and yes I also spent some time having fun optimizing drilling and blasting to blow even more ‘stuff’ up! Through a series of fortunate events, I found myself in the frigid north where I fell in love with the scientific art of geostatistics while studying under an amazing mentor. My time at the University of Alberta threw me headfirst into the rabbit hole of geostatistics. Pulling heavily from my background working with many great down to earth miners, I have always had a passion for taking complex ideas and trying to distill them down to their basic most easily understood parts. I try to live by Einstein’s advice, “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”